Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for that to be done at the earliest opportunity , the following morning at 9 o'clock . |
| 2 | Two social workers asked for this to be done , because they were so concerned about the policy they were supposed to be implementing . |
| 3 | I asked for this to be brought ‘ to the attention of the appropriate committee ’ . |
| 4 | I asked for this to be arranged twelve months ago , but it is still in the hands of the solicitor , who does not answer letters . |
| 5 | We planned to go full belt , we planned for 1989 to be either win or retire . |
| 6 | It was hoped in this way to reduce the high refusal rate which is a hazard in sociolinguistic surveys , and indeed the method seemed in general to be successful in this respect ; altogether , out of 40 addresses visited , only 8 refusals were recorded . |
| 7 | You would think that Ipswich came to United to be happy going home losing only 2–0 . |
| 8 | His initial appointment was for just two Tests , a demonstration of lack of faith that can not have helped his confidence and seemed to many to be ludicrous . |
| 9 | At that time a woman-centred politics , culture , and sexuality seemed to many to be a useful tactic , or even the only worthwhile long-term goal . |
| 10 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 11 | Uncertainty and the reinterpretation of crucial pieces of work were not yet necessary in physics in the 1870s and 1880s , as they seemed to many to be in the human sciences and in the sphere of religion under the pressure of evolutionary theory and the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 12 | The young men she rustled up as marriage candidates seemed to Algy to be all one person with different haircuts , well-born dullards on their way into industry who exclaimed ‘ I say , how jolly enterprising ! ’ when they heard that Algy was a scene painter , and who surprised her by still dancing foxtrots and rumbas that she thought extinct . |
| 13 | He seemed at first to be hyper-critical — if not disbelieving . |
| 14 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 15 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 16 | Then she sent Molly into a shadowy room which seemed at first to be empty . |
| 17 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |
| 18 | In relation to each other Fianna Fail , Fine Gael and Labour unusually happened in 1987 to be treated equitably : the number of first-preference votes per TD was 9,686 for Fianna Fail , 9,434 for Fine Gael , and 9,546 for Labour . |
| 19 | They favoured a rival draft of the bill , put forward by the nationalist Matica Slovenska organization , which called for Slovak to be the sole official language . |
| 20 | In short , the inner city appeared in 1987 to be a suitable case for treatment . |
| 21 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
| 22 | Doherty agreed at first to be deported to Ireland as an illegal alien , but requested political asylum after the UK signed an extradition treaty with Ireland in 1987 . |
| 23 | The last of the Pacific Electric cars ran in 1961 to be replaced by buses . |
| 24 | Her mother hoped in vain to be punctual one Sunday . |
| 25 | ‘ You could put right the mistake you made by promising to be my wife in six years ’ time ! ’ |
| 26 | More of the girls , who tended on average to be slightly younger than the boys , were still at school . |