Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Divisional Court upheld the scheme adopted by the GLC but the ground on which they did so seemed to be no more than that ‘ since the LTE could exercise its function to balance its revenue account by a grant from the GLC , a policy that reduced fares by means of such a grant was not unlawful ’ . |
| 2 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 3 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 4 | Suddenly running the club successfully seemed to be the most important thing in her life . |
| 5 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 6 | Will Carling said : ‘ There just seemed to be no way through . |
| 7 | For example , demands for a national enquiry into schemes of social insurance and allied services led to the appointment of an inter-departmental committee of civil servants under William Beveridge ; their subsequent report in December 1942 had a major impact ; ‘ freedom from want ’ finally seemed to be a real possibility . |
| 8 | No one attempted to rebuild it , and the house soon reverted to being a farmhouse , as which it appeared in the film of Thomas Hardy 's Far from the Madding Crowd . |
| 9 | To get the tickets you had to sign up for a complete tour and hospitality package , available through Travelforce , a travel agency in Durban — of which the then President of the Natal Rugby Union , and member of the Executive of the ( former ) SARB , just happened to be a director . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole thing has got out of control , I 'm not so much bored as miserable , ’ confided Diana to a sympathetic neighbour who just happened to be a journalist . |
| 11 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 12 | And Robert , who was by now learning the basic rule that if anybody said anything interesting it was probably Muhammad , would ask if by any chance it just happened to be a saying of the Prophet , to which the headmaster would reply , his eyes shining , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 13 | The station commander , who just happened to be a bit of an oppo of mine called " Bull " Jarmen — a great monster of a fellow and a Kiwi to boot — who was heard to say : " Well , it was very convenient him leaving it there ; you did not have to travel very far to collect it or find out what happened to the undercarriage . " |
| 14 | One of the two witnesses , who also just happened to be the convener , Fred Clasper , claimed that a second warning note was unjustified as the foreman had been knocked down unintentionally . |
| 15 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 16 | It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress . |
| 17 | We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me . |
| 18 | Dysart just happened to be the one she chose . |
| 19 | just happened to be the children 's , that 's all . |
| 20 | The threefold improvement they finally settled for was a compromise . |
| 21 | I was a chargehand and then I just drifted into being a Redcoat , and getting up and doing five minutes on stage and enjoying it . |
| 22 | The Headmaster no longer had to be a clergyman ( though Gurney in fact became a deacon in 1848 and was eventually ordained in 1853 ) . |
| 23 | There just had to be a special Super Brownie cake and card for Lynn Hurdwell when she left the Association . |
| 24 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 25 | The antique and classic park included much to interest the enthusiast , with bucket loads of Stearmen and Staggerwings , all manner of Ryan , Waco , Stinson and Cessna variants , oddest of which just had to be the Waco ZVN–8 N1937S , a 1938 built biplane with tricycle undercarriage ! |
| 26 | This call just had to be an act of purest derision , a flaunting of how well this enemy had foretold Jaq 's actions — or even was psychically alert to Jaq 's whereabouts . |
| 27 | Rubberneck , for the first time of his life ( he no longer wished to be a part , not when people fought as animals ) , felt close to God . |
| 28 | I just wanted to be a poet . ’ |
| 29 | His lecture took as its starting point the distinction drawn by the Wolfenden Committee between public and private behaviour , and what it thus considered to be the proper role of the criminal law in these areas . |
| 30 | Fr Butler told his bosses that he no longer wanted to be a priest , but he has still not formally quit . |