Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 2 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 3 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 4 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 5 | On the first occasion , I remembered , I had found a highly personable stray kitten and before the week was up had delivered it to what promised to be a good new home adjacent to that jokey castle . |
| 6 | New England , I knew , would be ablaze with colour in autumn , so the drive promised to be a spectacular one . |
| 7 | Expanding your market by selling to schools promised to be a controversial session , and did not disappoint . |
| 8 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 9 | This promised to be a difficult task ; hence the need for professional economists in the cabinet . |
| 10 | It was widely known that this promised to be a vintage year for books , thanks to an amazingly generous benefaction from a special friend of St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 11 | She set off at once , and at the police station pretended to be a shy , frightened girl . |
| 12 | He pretended to be a qualified gynaecologist , although he had not passed the relevant professional exams . |
| 13 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 14 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 15 | It was nearly 20 years before Cade 's discovery was reinvestigated and found to be a useful treatment for maniacal patients . |
| 16 | Snowdon I found to be a Scottish mountain transposed to North Wales . |
| 17 | By the middle of the nineteenth century , the offence had fallen into desuetude , but it was resurrected and found to be a handy prosecutorial weapon against gang fights , because it enabled the prosecutor to circumvent the limitations imposed by the laws of complicity . |
| 18 | Laura , desperately disappointed , tried to be a polite hostess for as long as required but when she finally retired found Bernard had locked the bedroom door . |
| 19 | But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney . |
| 20 | A police spokesman said a third car — believed to be a black Citroen — may have been responsible for the accident . |
| 21 | Farm workers , too , could be persuaded to defer to the locally powerful if the latter were prepared to act in what the farm worker believed to be a legitimate manner . |
| 22 | On 20 June 1757 , Bartram acknowledged the February letter , together with six cedar cones , parts of the Dictionary and Figures , and confirmed that he had sent the Gale which he believed to be a new genus ; in this he was right , for L'Heritier later founded the genus Comptonia upon it . |
| 23 | Mr Ahmet Koc , aged 34 , told the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee in London that after coming to England with the promise of employment last year , he had first been taken to the surgery of Dr Raymond Crockett for what he believed to be a medical examination for a job . |
| 24 | Mr Ahmet Koc , aged 34 , told the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee in London that after coming to England with the promise of employment last year , he had first been taken to the surgery of Dr Raymond Crockett for what he believed to be a medical examination for a job . |
| 25 | Last June Kingston upon Thames set up[ what it believed to be a unique new system for running the service . |
| 26 | In what some believed to be a dummy run of tomorrow 's final , Jackie Lockhart 's team beat Christine Cannon 's Stranraer 8-7 in the third round . |
| 27 | The bodies of two young people , believed to be a missing German couple , have been found on Skye . |
| 28 | And the woman , believed to be a pretty mum in her twenties , has accepted his apology . |
| 29 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 30 | Instead , there came to be a vehement emphasis on the ending of the age of miracle and revelation now that the last of the twelve apostles was dead . |