Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
| 2 | It was long , slow , difficult work , and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools . |
| 3 | Each annual cycle entailed the repetition of well-tried methods which had to be taken in common . |
| 4 | These grass-roots organizations which began to be formed immediately after February represent , in their view , the aspiration of the Russian proletariat to take command of the productive process . |
| 5 | The courts may also have been influenced by the rising premiums which had to be paid by anyone involved in the construction of buildings . |
| 6 | Perhaps more revealing is the evidence on sources and distribution of research funds which proved to be highly related . |
| 7 | Alexander had certainly done one thing for the Jews which proved to be irreversible . |
| 8 | Delivering a brief lecture on self-control , Leonora began frying bacon , cutting hunks of crusty bread , grating cheese , determined to keep so occupied that there was no attention to spare for the worries which seemed to be multiplying by the minute . |
| 9 | Words which proved to be unreliable as stimuli for eliciting particular consonants were excluded , as were children who failed to respond to 15 per cent or more of the items . |
| 10 | ‘ Boots : ‘ We had a complaint from the Kilbride family and as a result of that we withdrew both album and single , as there were words which tended to be offensive to the family . ’ |
| 11 | The only subjects which appeared to be taught were massage , biology ( sex talks ) and chemistry — a lesson in which the teacher appeared to be teaching the children how to manufacture high explosives . |
| 12 | The most striking thing about these changes , however , is that although the problems which confronted the inquiries were broadly similar , the solutions which came to be offered differed in marked respects . |
| 13 | The council was faced with half a million tax demands which had to be folded by last Tuesday . |
| 14 | He could distinctly hear voices which seemed to be coming from the parcels office next door . |
| 15 | The offices were cramped and without essentials like typewriters which had to be shared . |
| 16 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 17 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 18 | The other two were less opulently equipped , and carried ‘ such ladies and gentlemen who chose to be of the party ’ . |
| 19 | And the younger kids who wanted to be ultra-mod , exaggerated the look . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Moreover , by providing a sustained source of recruits they brought into being the radical subculture which revolved around discussion circles , experimental communes , and avant-garde journals . |
| 23 | I mean the schools they went to were n't er were n't really what I was used to you know . |
| 24 | But the new-look candidates he pointed to are virtual unknowns . |
| 25 | These crises he showed to be caused by a general lack of planning ( ‘ anarchy ’ ) of the capitalist methods of production , by the impossibility of attaining correct proportions between the various elements of the process of reproduction under capitalism , especially between production and consumption . |
| 26 | These crises he showed to be caused by a general lack of planning ( anarchy ) of the capitalist methods of production , by the impossibility of attaining correct proportions between elements of the process of reproduction under capitalism , especially between production and consumption … he showed the cause to be the incapability of capitalism to maintain an equilibrium among the various elements of production . |
| 27 | In other words he wished to be God himself , and not a creature . |
| 28 | As was so often the case , he sucked up nourishment from books he happened to be reading , finding parallels in the lives of characters to his own dilemmas and solutions . |
| 29 | Within months he determined to be ordained , believing that the Congregationalists most closely represented the standpoint and theology of the Confessing Church . |
| 30 | Within months he determined to be ordained , believing that the Congregationalists most closely represented the standpoint and theology of the Confessing Church . |