Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The houses were neat and not unpleasing in design , though to Winnie 's eyes they appeared to be built far too close together , and the low wire fences gave no privacy . |
| 2 | It was difficult to tell the passage of time , but when Blake opened his eyes they appeared to be within reach of the rising smoke . |
| 3 | In 1372 stipendiaries , and rectors and vicars with benefices worth 10 marks ( or £3 13/ 4d ) , were to come as archers with bows and arrows ; those with livings worth more than £10 had to attend ‘ well armed ’ ; if their living was valued at £20 they had to be accompanied by two archers , if £40 by two armed men and two archers , if £100 by five armed men and six archers . |
| 4 | In 1977 , however , it was decided that inter-city ( as well as freight ) rail services should not in principle be subsidized ( Department of Transport 1977 : chs. 6 , 7 ) , although in practice they continued to be . |
| 5 | As a general rule they appeared to be slowish , considering most of them were large animals , but there seems to be a considerable variation between species of greatly differing body sizes . |
| 6 | Last Thursday central tv showed animal rescue workers at the farm taking away 35 goats suffering from emaciation. 6 horses were in such a bad condition they had to be shot . |
| 7 | For other people at work they seemed to be such joyous occasions . |
| 8 | Mrs Pember Reeves found that housewives in Lambeth were reluctant to move away and forego the help they knew to be available in times of need , for neighbourliness implied reciprocity . |
| 9 | More and more fruits they seemed to be importing in those days , all colours . |
| 10 | One moment they seemed to be flying through and over mountains and the next they were skimming over a long , fertile valley , turning to come in with the wind and losing height steadily . |
| 11 | For the moment they had to be content to occupy the episcopal city and from there keep a watchful eye on their enemies . |
| 12 | Malcolm Rifkind , the Defence Secretary , intervened to say the army believed it would be ‘ grossly invidious for the choice of soldiers for redundancy to depend on whether at any given moment they happened to be serving in Northern Ireland , Bosnia , the UK or elsewhere ’ . |
| 13 | The Governors were not simply parsimonious : in truth they continued to be deeply concerned about the financial state of the School . |
| 14 | Byron , who had no good word to say of the town itself , spoke highly of its inhabitants : ‘ … both female and male , at least the young ones , are remarkably handsome , and how the devil they came to be so is a wonder . ’ |
| 15 | After the race they seemed to be coming up a little more , and by the time we arrived back in Britain I was covered in them . |
| 16 | After the surrender they refused to be repatriated , and they settled in Great Britain . |
| 17 | Or so the stories went , and excellent publicity they proved to be . |
| 18 | The girls were , however , very much alike : wide-eyed , glossy-haired , with a hunch of shoulder and ease of hip that made them all the sisters they longed to be . |
| 19 | For a start they had to be brawnier than the old stalwarts had been . |
| 20 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 21 | While the Republican politicians dithered and the more violent partisans of the Popular Front vented their anger and frustration on people they considered to be right-wing , ecclesiastical properties and captured rebels , the insurgents entrenched themselves in the positions they had managed to take . |
| 22 | At first the rebels appealed to the sultan , whose authority they claimed to be upholding against the janissaries . |
| 23 | In debate they had to be elaborately courteous towards their colleagues and non-ideological in their comments . |
| 24 | Many low caste people who had previously been craft workers turned to farm work , and as farmworkers they had to be paid not in the old feudal terms but an amount definitely related to the work they did . |
| 25 | For these reasons they tended to be much less closely associated with the advocacy of specific legal and penal reforms than classical criminology was . |
| 26 | They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation . |
| 27 | It happens erm I 've handled a case myself where shares were valued at a particular amount on the death and er in due course they needed to be sold as part of the administration unfortunately they 'd gone down er a fair amount in the mean time . |
| 28 | Started at that 's right , yes and er I did and er they put me in the machine shop filing keyhole and Those times they had to be all cast over the rim locks and all that , now they 've made for us and all that . |
| 29 | But for long periods at The Dell they appeared to be preoccupied by Sunday 's Rumbelow 's Cup final against Manchester United . |
| 30 | 6 horses were in such a bad state they had to be shot . |