Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His aunt and uncle promised to be witnesses , but were dissuaded by his mother at the last moment . |
| 2 | A third of SNI 's revenue still comes from mainframes , and 18 new 7500 machines running the enhanced BS2000/OSD1 operating system — promised to be Posix compliant and running the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment by the end of 1994 — will also emerge at Hannover . |
| 3 | They are separated by major fault zones , in most cases now demonstrated to be thrusts , which have on average an east-west trend . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean a man pretended to be Jesus ? ’ said Gabriel incredulously . |
| 5 | We pretended to be God and angels . |
| 6 | For example , in two cases the attackers pretended to be taxi-drivers , but it was stated that ‘ police do not believe the assaults [ on a 17-year-old girl and a woman aged 25 ] were linked ’ ( Daily Mail ) . |
| 7 | Settling in Colinton , he rose to be chairman , an authority on the history of Scottish typography , and a printer of fine editions of , among others , the works of R. L. Stevenson . |
| 8 | Mr. Bundy , a jobbing gardener , was about five feet in height but built like a tank whilst Mr. Cool , a clerk at Style and Gerrish , the main drapers in Salisbury , was a very quiet man who rose to be head of the firm 's Accounts Department . |
| 9 | Bauthumley fought for Parliament and rose to be quartermaster in Colonel Cox 's regiment . |
| 10 | This he might find in the service of a bishop ; for many bishops in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming to have large staffs of young clerks , who learned the business of ecclesiastical administration and rose to be canons or archdeacons , or were seconded or translated to the royal service . |
| 11 | Beginning as an ordinary mechanic , Murdock soon proved to be an excellent worker and rapidly rose to be Boulton & Watt 's most trusted worker and adviser . |
| 12 | In the following week US officials expressed concern at alleged fresh shipments of weapons aboard North Korean ships , reported to be Scud-Cs , surface-to-surface missiles or Chinese M-9s . |
| 13 | The Court ruled that , even if the agencies staff were instructed to print out what they deemed to be records , the electronic material are ‘ quantitatively different than a copy printed out in paper form and , therefore the Defendants ’ record keeping system violates ( the statute ) because it does not save all the information contained in these electronic records . ’ |
| 14 | The Thatcher government continued this process , much more zealously , developing a formula which deliberately penalized those authorities it deemed to be over-spenders . |
| 15 | Supposed old master paintings bought by Imelda Marcos , wife of the deposed President of the Philippines , with stolen government money have been hauled out of storage — and found to be fakes . |
| 16 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 17 | The march was then diverted down Albert Road and the police Special Operations Service was called in to x-ray the package found to be rubbish wrapped in a newspaper and cling film . |
| 18 | Anyone found to be HIV positive was transferred to a USAF base in Texas for further tests , evaluation and counselling . |
| 19 | The NetWare referred to is NetWare 4.0 which it reviews . |
| 20 | And I presume the she referred to is Doreen ? ’ |
| 21 | Only a few tried to be heroes . |
| 22 | ‘ But she told me she tried to be understanding of a life that perhaps she might have to lead one day , ’ said her friend . |
| 23 | Sigue Sigue Sputnik tried to be disco . |
| 24 | There were a number of attacks during January by right-wing extremist groups , which police believed to be part of a protest campaign against CODESA . |
| 25 | Ballymacilroy finished in a series of greywacke sandstones believed to be Permian , cut by Tertiary basic igneous dykes or sills . |
| 26 | The offer caused mass protests and eventually the firm pulled out , but now it has put in another bid , believed to be £5m . |
| 27 | Such a project is under way in Gabon , the tropical forests of which are home to an estimated 70,000 elephants — believed to be Africa 's largest undisturbed population . |
| 28 | A large proportion of the new NEC were members , or believed to be members , of the South African Communist Party . |
| 29 | I sent two samples , one of dust particles , the other a piece of waste I believed to be asbestos , to Dr Martin Brewer in London for examination . |
| 30 | Quasars are starlike objects that must be many times brighter than entire galaxies if they are as distant as the reddening of their spectra indicates ; pulsars are the rapidly blinking remnants of supernova explosions , believed to be ultradense neutron stars ; compact X-ray sources , revealed by instruments aboard space vehicles , may also be neutron stars or may be hypothetical objects of still higher density , namely black holes . |