Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It promised to be another brilliant day . |
| 2 | All in all , it promised to be another heavenly day , she thought , feeling her spirits rise almost perceptibly . |
| 3 | For other people at work they seemed to be such joyous occasions . |
| 4 | On everything , house , garden , terrace , green slopes , water , old oaks , fern , moss , woods again , and far away across the openings in the prospect , to the distance lying wide before us with a purple bloom upon it , there seemed to be such undisturbed repose . |
| 5 | Well yes and no , erm , every body that seemed to get involved there seemed to be some strange thing missing |
| 6 | There seemed to be some other words at the bottom of the landscape , but O could not make these out . |
| 7 | Whether it was the distance , whether the record , because it must have been a record , had been deliberately slowed — there seemed to be some tonal distortion as well — I could n't tell , but the song came with a dreamlike slowness and dimness , almost as if it was being sung out of the stars and had had to cross all that night and space to reach me . |
| 8 | There seemed to be few ethnic minority children , one in each class perhaps , certainly none in the youngest group . |
| 9 | For rectification to be applicable , there needed to be some prior agreement between the parties , the agreement still needed to be effective when the instrument ( ie the s 54 agreement ) was effected , and the instrument should have failed because of a mistake . |
| 10 | Though now , as Liz recited names of guests , she saw Charles drift away into what she took to be some private realm of financial speculation and morose managerial debate : he started to bite the inside of his lip , as he did when preoccupied , and to drum his fingers on the silvery-yellow brocade of the settee . |
| 11 | The mining industry proved to be another technology-intensive industry of the type favoured by the IDA . |
| 12 | This proved to be another successful steam operation by Network SouthEast in conjunction with Flying Scotsman Services . |
| 13 | Since by the end of the period there appeared to be few unworked fields left within the discipline , its overall stability seemed endangered by excessively specialized work . |
| 14 | Looking ahead , Mr Hely Hutchinson said that company plans continued to make cautious assumptions about the general economic outlook , but that there appeared to be some positive indications . |
| 15 | There had to be some political acceptance both inside the country and , more importantly , outside , because since the end of the Cold War military take-overs were met increasingly by an immediate freeze of foreign aid . |
| 16 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 17 | This had to be some wonderful dream , because Felipe de Santis would not come here to England and seek her out . |
| 18 | But dissimilar though they were in appearances , they were alike — very alike — in the way they thought ; precise , analytical , hard-edged , CI5 was a no-nonsense Operation for no-nonsense men , and when the dirty tricks division of the Secret Service was asked to turn its hand to a ‘ favour ’ , there had to be some tough negotiating by all concerned . |
| 19 | There had to be some missing piece to Jane 's story . |
| 20 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |