Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Takeshita bulldozed this through parliament last December , and on April 1st it began to be applied to all goods and services . |
| 2 | The further east the northern Devon type was found , the larger it seemed to be . |
| 3 | The most notorious of these streets , Pimlico off Church Street , was a derelict slum within ten years of its building around 1820 , and by the 1870s it had to be demolished . |
| 4 | In 1984 it had to be amended further to follow the Euro-notion of ‘ equal pay for work of equal value ’ whereby the pay of women occupying jobs without immediate male comparison is set equal to men 's through the opinion of a judge rather than the operation of market forces . |
| 5 | With the age and general appearance of the driver and the obvious wealth behind the car itself Campion was sure it had to be either hard drugs or pornography , maybe a sweep operation somewhere and one of the fishes had struggled through the net . |
| 6 | As you can view , world peace is not all it promised to be , so if your planet ever has the choice of voting for world peace , do not follow the example of the planet Earth . |
| 7 | It seemed to her that if love was to be great it had to be paid for with a terrible price . |
| 8 | Opera soon ceased to be a severely intellectual form of art and with the opening of the first public opera-house in Venice in 1637 it ceased to be an exclusively aristocratic one , though it seldom flourished without princely or aristocratic support . |
| 9 | At first it seemed to be a motiveless crime , but then police found out about Michelle 's passionate affair with Alison 's husband . |
| 10 | At first it appeared to be empty , but then , on the dappled ground , I saw a rock python . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry it had to be me . |
| 12 | I 'm only sorry it had to be in such circumstances of stress . |
| 13 | She wrote , ‘ You ca n't imagine how strange it seemed to be journeying thus , without any visible cause for progress other than the magical machine , with its flying white breath and rhythmical , unvarying pace … ‘ |
| 14 | Nobody had seen Edward Balliol unfortunately , but apart from that it seemed to be success all the way . |
| 15 | When Parliament met in May 1685 it proved to be overwhelmingly Tory in sympathy , there being only fifty-seven Whigs in a House of Commons totalling 513 members . |
| 16 | Yes , he did see , but all the same it had to be stopped … somehow . |
| 17 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |