Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pointing to the easy pickings and careless pleasures of newspaper sellers , flower sellers , barrel-organ boys and other youthful street traders , a government report of 1910 provided what was perhaps the most extravagant version of these common Edwardian fears : |
| 2 | At the same school I also recognised the importance of freedom of choice , when I approached what was then the equivalent of O-levels . |
| 3 | She would have respected Simon Copley more if he had been less prone to venial selfishness , less preoccupied with his physical comfort , but this she told herself was probably the result of fifty years of spoiling by a devoted wife . |
| 4 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 5 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 6 | But then the civil war of the first years of the new century caused what was virtually the collapse of the French army , a collapse confirmed by the defeat at Agincourt at the hands of English men-at-arms and archers . |
| 7 | Twenty thousand years ago , at the end of the Pleistocene , the melting of North America 's last great ice sheet engorged what is now the Susquehanna River , which then enlarged the Chesapeake Valley . |
| 8 | By April he had recovered sufficiently to travel to America once more , to see his sisters ; this visit is perhaps most remarkable for the fact that he addressed the largest assembly ever gathered to attend a literary lecture ( he also received what was then the largest fee for such an event , some two thousand dollars ) . |
| 9 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 10 | Many stated it was also the point at which they ‘ realised ’ they were addicted . |
| 11 | Peter Alliss reckoned it was probably the end for Ballesteros if he had n't come roaring back by 1992 . |
| 12 | John joined what was then the Ministry of Labour and National Service in 1956 . |
| 13 | G. On the western lowlands Chester ( 58 000 people ) is a central place where the Romans and the Normans defended what was once the lowest bridging point over the River Dee and so also the route into northern Wales . |
| 14 | Rehabilitated and well furbished it is now the pride of the waterfront . |
| 15 | King George III ( 1760–1820 ) collected what is now the King 's Library in the British Library , and Queen Mary herself had a library of nearly five thousand volumes by the end of her life . |
| 16 | The questions she asked herself were always the same . |
| 17 | But then too late they realized there was only the one power point in the garage and they had n't got enough adaptors to take all the amplifiers and instruments . |
| 18 | As a result , Haslam inherited what was then the plastic-film group , which was at an embryonic stage of development . |
| 19 | Andropov produced a list of names with crosses against them , and I understood I was practically the last Presidium member who had not been ‘ sworn in ’ . |
| 20 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 21 | I thought she 's just the type of person which everybody would avoid to speak to , this girl ! |
| 22 | I knew there was only the one slice left , but I 've never been the sort deliberately to starve an animal to death , so in it went . |
| 23 | So far as she knew they were only the result of an innocent friendship , so why Feargal 's anger ? |
| 24 | It was perhaps a little early to be certain , but he thought they were probably the best things he had ever done . |
| 25 | As far as quality of play went it was probably the worst since I took over . ’ |
| 26 | He said , with his back to me , until you went away I thought it was just the usual thing . |
| 27 | I wonder whether he thought it was just the way the English talked , or whether he thought I was peculiar … |
| 28 | At first , I thought it was just the Luciferi but , on one occasion , I am sure it was due to intervention from the English court . ’ |
| 29 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 30 | However , he thought it was probably the second language of no fewer than ninety per cent of Tanzanians . |