Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in their own interest to do so : each wants to pursue its own policies , which it believed to be in the best interests of the country , without having those policies tempered or abandoned because of the need to enter into alliance with another party . |
| 2 | Not only did it fail to achieve all the gains on which it seemed to be calculating in embarking on the assault , but it sustained one particularly debilitating blow in the course of it . |
| 3 | The House of Lords held that the company had correctly been convicted of making a statement which it knew to be false . |
| 4 | The Durham Players had found the base for their pageant wagon in a farmyard , to which it had to be returned . |
| 5 | As already indicated , the Brush Electrical Engineering Co. was the contractor for the construction of this line and with regard to the haste with which it had to be built , Brush Budget , their house magazine , had the following to say , ‘ For legal reasons it became necessary to build the line very quickly and the Brush Company laid ten miles of track in six weeks . |
| 6 | I am grateful for this opportunity to clarify any uncertainty that may have resulted from this case , the specific circumstances which lay behind it and the way in which it had to be decided . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ It was a battling performance , which it had to be on the day . |
| 8 | He looked at the old man , peering darkly under his down-drawn brows ; and there was one who would have questioned and writhed and wondered , pondering long before he would have given any answer , and then , most likely , regretting the answer he had given , whatever it chanced to be . |
| 9 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 10 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 11 | The heated debates in Western Europe around the year 400 on the meaning of perfection had their roots in the uncertainty about what it meant to be a genuine Christian in a society of fashionable Christianity . |
| 12 | Carrying the banner of the nuclear industry , it was well aware of what it meant to be a target for the new generation of environmentalists . |
| 13 | In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person . |
| 14 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |
| 15 | Perhaps when we stopped asking what it meant to be fighting a war in Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 17 | He understood what it meant to be sixteen . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it continued to be critical of what it felt to be the excesses of some of TANU 's more extreme and strident members and officials . |
| 19 | In France the Third Republic inherited from the old monarchy and the Second Empire a long tradition of such support for Catholic missions in the Near East and China and showed itself as willing as its predecessors to shoulder what it felt to be its obligations in this respect . |
| 20 | How could Mrs Hollidaye consider allowing Dot to return to that unsafe place where the air robbed your cheeks of their roses , where buildings collapsed though the bombs had long since stopped , where there was no glass in half the windows , no water in the taps , where nothing was quite what it seemed to be . |
| 21 | To them it was what it seemed to be , a pleasant green meadow . |
| 22 | Last June Kingston upon Thames set up[ what it believed to be a unique new system for running the service . |
| 23 | The issue in Gallagher was not whether an appellant could raise a non-certified point but whether the House itself could depart from the certified question and address what it took to be the true question arising . |
| 24 | The view that this was a central organising feature of the Wolfenden Report is reinforced by the Committee 's approach , in its proposals on prostitution , to what it saw to be ‘ legitimate ’ avenues for female sexuality . |
| 25 | Known for his quirky sayings , Kahn taught his pupils always to ask the building what it wanted to be . |
| 26 | Nothing was what it claimed to be . |
| 27 | He submitted that it was quite clear that the FPC reached a considered decision as what it found to be the proper level of use of the deputising service consistently with maintaining the doctor 's primary responsibility and as regards the need to maintain the standards of the deputising service efficiently and consistently with that obligation . |
| 28 | ‘ It is entirely up to the local education authority to decide what it considered to be the child 's needs , ’ the judge said . |
| 29 | In 1969 , the World Health Assembly decided to abandon the aim of eradication in favour of what it considered to be the more realistic one of control to a level manageable by the existing public health services . |
| 30 | It therefore asserted what it considered to be the position at which the public/private distinction should be fixed , a position which would allow prostitution to be effectively a private matter as long as it was not conducted on the streets . |