Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The state 's bureaucracy came to be staffed by the monopoly capitalists and their friends so that the state could co-ordinate the interests of the monopolies . |
| 32 | At 13 he sailed as apprentice to a ship-owner operating out of Whitehaven in Cumberland , 36 miles [ 58 km ] south-west of Carlisle , and from ship 's boy rose to be third mate on a ‘ black-birder ’ or slave ship . |
| 33 | At last a genuinely transnational agitation for a people 's peace appeared to be on the agenda . |
| 34 | Maggie 's feet seemed to be on fire with each stone she encountered . |
| 35 | Yet , only a few days ago , Labour 's campaign seemed to be swinging to victory . |
| 36 | An individual 's wealth tended to be reflected in the number of hearths he had in his house . |
| 37 | Chief executive officer Edwin Lake told the tourism and amenities committee that the Children 's Village had to be protected from the sea , wind and sand and a reinforced concrete wall along the full length of the north side was a basic element of the design . |
| 38 | A disadvantage of the tribute system was that each gang 's ore had to be kept separately from the others until dressed and sampled . |
| 39 | The field-worker 's legitimacy had to be proved continually and skilfully , and trust was gained as a result of a progressive series of negotiations . |
| 40 | Bagehot 's work continued to be regarded as an authoritative work long after the Constitution had undergone fundamental change . |
| 41 | The women of Page Street were very close friends , however , and even Aggie 's fastidiousness tended to be overlooked by the rest of the women . |
| 42 | The power of the court to disallow a mortgagee 's costs sought to be added to the mortgage security is a power that does not derive from section 51 but from the power of courts of equity to fix the terms on which redemption will be allowed . |
| 43 | " So the railway engineer 's job appeared to be complete . |
| 44 | Antoinette 's place had to be laid opposite her husband 's . |
| 45 | Some of Ferguson 's tries had to be seen to be believed . |
| 46 | Whichever way , Ginsberg 's appearance proved to be significant in the history of the English underground . |
| 47 | Damien 's body appeared to be twisting and writhing like a fish on a line but there was no escape for him . |
| 48 | A second inventory was then ordered to see if anything else had gone missing , and Mme Huyghe 's disgrace looked to be complete . |
| 49 | After commenting that not all the defendant 's statements appeared to be of a similar literary merit , the judge fined him $2,000 . |
| 50 | This equality technically came to an end when Gloucester was made protector , but Buckingham 's importance continued to be recognized and his reward was on a commensurate scale . |
| 51 | This equality technically came to an end when Gloucester was made protector , but Buckingham 's importance continued to be recognized and his reward was on a commensurate scale . |
| 52 | However , it was not until scientific ornithology began to get into its stride in the l9th century that some of the more remarkable aspects of the cuckoo 's behaviour began to be widely known . |
| 53 | Staff appropriate to Florey 's aims had to be recruited and grants to pay them obtained from outside bodies . |
| 54 | Mr. Jeffreys contended that on a fair reading of the subsection it can not have been the intention that every one of an owner 's rights had to be assumed by the alleged thief before an appropriation was proved and that essential ingredient of the offence of theft established . |
| 55 | And it is believed to have compiled a file on James Gilbey , the Princess 's friend alleged to be the male voice on the ‘ Dianagate ’ tapes . |
| 56 | The only other mould found to have equal activity was one kept in culture by La Touche , with which Fleming 's mould appeared to be identical . |
| 57 | Lucy 's relatives seemed to be uniformly and conveniently distributed throughout the south-western peninsula . |
| 58 | A bad tendon strain in Aldaniti 's off-foreleg had to be fired , and he was on the sidelines for eighteen months . |
| 59 | There had been much insistence among Slovaks that the country 's name had to be hyphenated in order to make explicit the separate and equal identity of the two nations , whereas many Czechs felt that the issue was divisive and that the state 's title should be merely shortened by removing the word " Socialist " . |
| 60 | Tuesday night 's opening had to be cancelled and on Wednesday night the leading lady was ill . |