Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had only brief glimpses of the parrot as it flew across gaps in the canopy , and with that I had to be content . |
| 2 | In the next letter he wrote me , dated 7 May , he announced that he was to have a holiday ; and this I knew to be much overdue . |
| 3 | At seven years old I determined to be a great footballer . |
| 4 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 5 | Oh , she knew what was going through his head all right , and how careful she had to be not to say or do anything he might misinterpret . |
| 6 | She looked at the second photo : the person in this one seemed to be dead too . |
| 7 | They said the light moved in just the way this one seemed to be doing . |
| 8 | I 'm not sure you could take a tabloid in this direction I 'm about to propose that would also appeal to some popular customers , but it 's like , last night everyone was reminiscing about Type ninety and the high points and one of the things that came out in conversation was that there was enormous amount of sex going on which I suppose there is at all conferences , you know , but this one seemed to be , you know , the randiest conference in recent memory . |
| 9 | More than that , she positively hoped it would annoy ; boring , grumpy men like this one deserved to be annoyed ; they had absolutely no idea how to enjoy themselves . |
| 10 | Roger usually introduced us to his girl-friends across the breakfast table , so this one had to be important and in the two weeks before her arrival I asked Rog to teach me a formal French greeting . |
| 11 | Ned continued to lose weight , and it was clear something had to be done . |
| 12 | To some there appeared to be a direct relationship between US deficits and the euro-dollar market 's growth . |
| 13 | In order to do this they had to be something very unlikely to happen or they would not be regarded as a novus actus interveniens . |
| 14 | The end-product was interpreted and enforced by judges who were independent of both the legislature and the executive and whose jobs were guaranteed regardless of how inconvenient they proved to be . |
| 15 | In 1876 he decided to be an architect , the following year becoming articled to Basil Champneys [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | Crown lending was never a major part of Aaron 's business , however , and after 1169 he ceased to be a primary Crown lender , concentrating instead on building up his own vast financial network of agents and clients from his Lincoln base . |
| 17 | Appointed in April 1720 he had to be threatened with dismissal by James Craggs [ q.v. ] , the secretary of state , before he would go . |
| 18 | Of course , if the words of the Act clearly achieve a different result from that which seemed to be intended by the committee , it is the words which must prevail and strained constructions must not be adopted in order to give effect to the report . |
| 19 | Third , the particular reputational approach used by Hunter presupposed that which remained to be proven — that there is a group of forty people in whose hands power in Atlanta is concentrated — by devoting all his efforts to finding out the names of people who appear to belong to this elite . |
| 20 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |
| 21 | Inquisitions post mortem can sometimes fill such a gap , but because a separate one had to be taken in every county involved we can never be certain that the record has survived in its entirety . |
| 22 | In fact , every second one seemed to be a jobbing builder 's pick-up , either a Mazda or a Toyota , loaded with bits of scaffolding and bags of sand . |
| 23 | By the 1840s there seemed to be clear evidence for a sequence of development in the history of life on earth . |
| 24 | The results were a very mixed bag , with some of them so gloomy they refused to be quoted . |
| 25 | Mr Takeshita bulldozed this through parliament last December , and on April 1st it began to be applied to all goods and services . |
| 26 | Huy started to walk away , realising with bitterness how far away he still was from being accepted in this new society , and realising to his renewed surprise how much he wanted to be . |
| 27 | ‘ Or is it just possible you wanted to be pregnant ? ’ |
| 28 | When she arrived in England in 1568 she claimed to be seeking the protection of her cousin Elizabeth , but at the same time began scheming for support in her claims to both thrones , having earlier told a priest that she ‘ trusted to find many friends when time did serve , especially among those of the old religion ’ . |
| 29 | Her voice and her looks told him exactly how little she wanted to be away from him , and his hands tightened as he rubbed his lips lightly against hers . |
| 30 | And I 'm awfully glad I happened to be passing . |