Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found this to be the case when trying to replace a ballcock valve washer in a hot water tank in a very narrow airing cupboard . |
| 2 | He found this to be the case . |
| 3 | Alice Foley found this to be the one disagreeable aspect of her work as a sickness visitor . |
| 4 | Holly-jack — because of her evergreen skin — seemed set to be the one who would persist in winter as the human 's friend ; she would be the oddest of primitive heroines . |
| 5 | BRITTANY declared 1991 to be the Year of the Chateaux and decided that a publication was required to illustrate and celebrate the wonderful array of seigneurial houses within the region . |
| 6 | I would not do it again ; it is too dangerous as things are today ; but the night on which I decided this to be the case was the night on which I leaned enough at my classes to decide me about Bertrand Russell , so it was well worth going . |
| 7 | When she announced she was leaving at the end of the term , I felt this to be the final betrayal , although I could not blame her , even then . |
| 8 | The general consensus of opinion on the subject — both among potential jurors and among memory experts — appears to be that extreme stress will impair memory , E. F. Loftus ( 1979 ) reported that 67% of a sample of over 500 students felt this to be the case . |
| 9 | With regard to ‘ stacking it high ’ , I understood this to be the whole point of a DIY superstore where stock is virtually guaranteed . |
| 10 | ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day . |
| 11 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |