Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 2 | The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back . |
| 3 | What Holmes and Rahe failed to recognise is that major life events are not what stress most of us most of the time . |
| 4 | But the point that Anna failed to grasp was that without the money it would never have occurred to him to marry her . |
| 5 | It is not surprising , therefore , that not only did he consider that he alone would set the pace , but also that the pace he chose to set was that of a dilatory gastropod . |
| 6 | Creeping up on one , all they managed to steal was some food . |
| 7 | Their three tries , all unconverted , looked to have been enough to win them the game . |
| 8 | The statue , nearly 24 metres high on a plinth itself 12 metres high , has the large ears and nose that appeared to have been such prominent features of the great man . |
| 9 | Navjuvanov was dismissed , accused of corruption , and it appeared to have been this event which sparked off the rallies outside the parliament building in Shahidan ( " Martyrs ' " ) Square . |
| 10 | Moreover , the material upon which he had to work was that of the early stages of industrial capitalism and of the working-class political movement , so that in any case it would be essential to review his theory in the light of subsequent historical experience . |
| 11 | But what she had to remember was that , however convincing he might sound on details , there was a hard core of fact that even Luke Hunter could never explain away . |
| 12 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 13 | One of the most important questions they had to consider was that of public health , including housing . |
| 14 | All I had to eat was some chocolate Tony had left in the car , washed down by a can of beer in the freeze compartment . |
| 15 | Significantly , the villages which tended to disappear were those with a low proportion of peasant proprietors ( 83 , p.28 ) . |
| 16 | At that moment all I wanted to hear was more of her story , but she 'd lost interest in that now . |
| 17 | The high-grade components I wanted to use were all okayed , too , and so Ampeg now have very high-grade systems which have filtered into the stuff that the other guys are designing . |
| 18 | Er , but the point I wanted to make was that , after trying for twelve months , first of all , er , I wrote to my local M P . |