Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is as true of nineteenth-century Whitley Bay ( which literally ceased to be farmland ) as it is of almost all of Longbenton , developed as a Newcastle over spill after 1945 . |
| 2 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 3 | But the star of the show just had to be Boy George , who was so inspired , he bought the outfit he modelled . |
| 4 | Such clues would add to the embarrassing riches of intelligence which had recently flooded in to Napoleon 's headquarters from Belgians who desperately wanted to be part of France again . |
| 5 | He always had to be number one . |
| 6 | He and Sir John now appeared to be bosom friends and I secretly wondered if the Santerres had suborned this bumbling servant of the crown . |
| 7 | The tie he had unearthed from the neglected depths of his jacket pocket was badly creased and stained with what he strongly suspected to be taramosalata . |
| 8 | When I rejoined the conversation you were talking about your ‘ strikers ’ and your ‘ defenders ’ , by which I for a moment thought you meant the miners and their supporters , but which I then understood to be part of an extended football metaphor and to refer respectively to your Policy Unit and your Private Office . |
| 9 | A revealing passage from Khrushchev 's memoirs , citing a letter written by the Soviet premier to Castro in late 1962 , shows his complete insensitivity to the Cubans ' wounded national pride and barely conceals his irritation at what he evidently believed to be ingratitude on Castro 's part . |
| 10 | I never seemed to be sort of up to the other scholars at all . |