Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of course it had to be ! |
| 32 | As she went into the kitchen it seemed to be alarmingly full of people and commotion , though when she sat down and worked them out it was only Clare , Bryony , Sue and the kids , and a strange man in a duffle coat . |
| 33 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 34 | Now that cape , it would be raining on it all night , and we had no means of drying it so that cape was left on a hanger in the house and the next coat was taken and that was worn but for some reason it seemed to be always raining on nights and you had coat wet and you came to go out it was still damp . |
| 35 | To those of a committed neoclassical persuasion it appeared to be a godsend . |
| 36 | In the end it seemed to be more or less common ground that the judge did not formally state his reasons when he made his order , although in the course of argument he had indicated that he had sympathy for the debtor 's argument based on section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 37 | My sisters sent me a melon , but there was so much else , that in the end it had to be given to people in the wards . ’ |
| 38 | But in the end it proved to be very thin stuff . |
| 39 | In time , though , she remembered the way it had to be . |
| 40 | ‘ It was rushed through , and because of the way it had to be constructed in getting the support of all 22 clubs , there was no way all the changes could be made in such a short space of time . |
| 41 | John marvelled at the way it seemed to be thinking for itself . |
| 42 | It was finally much more like biography than the autobiography it purported to be ; patently more concealed lesson than true confession . |
| 43 | In the next century it came to be held as a statute and was regarded as a locus classicus defining at least one boundary between clerical and lay jurisdictions . |
| 44 | In the eighteenth century it ceased to be needed as a fortress in the military sense , and in the latter part of that century the conversion of the inside into a palace was begun . |
| 45 | When the company won its provisional licence last year it looked to be on the brink of success , but now the Department says that it is ‘ still considering how to move forward with the company on its application ’ . |
| 46 | What a year it proved to be : he won the PGA at St Georges , and finished second on the Order of Merit . |
| 47 | Rildia Bee kept saying what a nice country it seemed to be , and she grinned like Christmas . |
| 48 | gentleman came to this house it seemed to be that he challenged the establishment and many of us welcomes that view it seemed to give a breath of fresh air , but now it seems to me that he 's become entirely institutionalised , can he explain that to the house ? |
| 49 | ‘ I never wanted to leave Wigan — it would have been a downward step — but at the same time it had to be right for me . |
| 50 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 51 | At the time it appeared to be the most plausible perhaps . |
| 52 | After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague . |
| 53 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 54 | During the next year Sally fell in and out of love a half dozen times and each time it proved to be just as disastrous . |
| 55 | For a time it proved to be more militant than the BF . |
| 56 | This time it proved to be the tunnel 's end , and as he drew nearer he saw the shadowy outline of a ladder etched against the concrete . |
| 57 | Last time their work was in THE FACE it had to be censored . |
| 58 | In fact it seemed to be only Gaughan who seemed capable of creating chances as Darlington struggled . |
| 59 | In fact it seemed to be only Gaughan who seemed capable of creating chances as Darlington struggled . |
| 60 | Soon after wooden aircraft went into large scale production it began to be realized that a proportion of aircraft plywood was ungluable . |