Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a character that I felt to be a very basic part of me and when I read it I had that immediate connection with him . |
| 2 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 3 | ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’ |
| 4 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 5 | Nothing else mattered at the moment except the fact that I wanted to be a follower of Jesus Christ — whoever He was . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to think that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was a little kid ! ’ |
| 7 | At age seven I decided that I wanted to be a soldier , after I had watched a TV programme about the D-Day landings . |
| 8 | I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that I wanted to be a paratrooper . |
| 9 | I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’ |
| 10 | She hoped that Constance would not embarrass her by telling Mick that she wished to be a kennel-maid : she 'd changed her mind anyway . |
| 11 | Miss Zeta Jones , a most serious artist , was then upset over rumours that she wanted to be a rock star . |
| 12 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 13 | They noticed that there seemed to be a lot of helium gas in the vicinity . |
| 14 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 15 | In the event , the meeting decreed an adjournment after only 90 minutes ; observers noted that there seemed to be a general desire to paper over the rifts caused by the Gulf war . |
| 16 | In fact , she found in her review that there seemed to be a great of continuity , that again and again over these forty years researchers were reporting similar sorts of social and psychological impacts of unemployment . |
| 17 | We became eerily conscious of the fact that there seemed to be an absence even of wild life : animal , bird or insect . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , however , it had become clear that there had to be a replacement DMU which was placed midway in size and cost between the railbuses and the 210 units . |
| 19 | Gradually , repeating over and over that there had to be a simple explanation , he had summoned up enough confidence to take hold of the note again , and the feather . |
| 20 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |
| 21 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 22 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 23 | I suggested to Wilson that there had to be a short cooling-off period , after which Max Aitken would be a suitable person to go to Rhodesia as an unofficial ambassador , since in the war he had flown with Smith in the RAF and they had become good friends . |
| 24 | I knew that there had to be a wound : she had not been drowned or strangled or poisoned . |
| 25 | ‘ It was then I decided that there had to be a market out there for an ironing service for professional women — and this has very much proved to be the case . ’ |
| 26 | Lord Roskill in Morris said that the requirement in Eddy v Niman that there had to be an " overt act " was too narrow and that the act " need not necessarily be overt " . |
| 27 | In Lawrence [ 1982 ] AC 510 , Lord Diplock said that there had to be an obvious and serious risk of some physical harm or substantial damage to property in relation to reckless driving and causing death by reckless driving . |
| 28 | Dr Vickery found that there appeared to be a critical acidity level which affected both dippers ' breeding success and a stream 's population of the invertebrates on which the birds feed . |
| 29 | Apparently Naud has discovered that there about ‘ 1700 semi-mounted ploughs sold in the UK ’ , presumably annually , and that they wanted to be a big part of that market . |
| 30 | ‘ Between October and January I thought through what I wanted to do , and came to the conclusion that it had to be a change and it had to be something I was interested in , which really came down to working with people . |