Example sentences of "that they [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 2 | Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty . |
| 3 | Three rows of tiny figures circled a Navaho basket , holding hands forever in the weave ; black squares for heads , so that they seemed to be facing inward to preserve the sanctity of the dance . |
| 4 | Grey stone walls rose about them , and winged roofs surfaced with rose-red tiles caught the sun so that they seemed to be on fire . |
| 5 | Then , exasperated by her own confusion , and the fact that they seemed to be going round in circles , Ellie demanded , ‘ Feargal , just tell me what it is you want to know — what , in fact , we 're supposed to be talking about ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 7 | Ellie could n't actually hear what they were saying , only that they seemed to be arguing . |
| 8 | When running the Student Advisory Centre , he had taken telephone calls from homosexuals , assuming at first that they wished to be ‘ cured ’ . |
| 9 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 10 | H M Customs and Excise confirmed yesterday that they had to be implemented by 1 January 1990 . |
| 11 | The armoured or plated dinosaurs include some species that seem too heavily burdened with protective armour to have been very active , but this does not necessarily mean that they had to be cold-blooded . |
| 12 | She described a recent visit to her local Samaritans ' branch , where a voluntary worker told her that they received telephone calls from teenagers who were ‘ so filled with fear , and so depressed by the constant threat of a nuclear accident ’ that they had to be deterred from committing suicide . |
| 13 | Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 14 | The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors . |
| 15 | Next day in a further raid on this airfield another Beaufighter was to be slightly damaged , as was a Maryland , while a Wellington and a Blenheim were so badly hit that they had to be written off . |
| 16 | About 50 per cent of the animals were so sev-erely maimed that they had to be put down . |
| 17 | Some of these were intended to cover such large areas ( 150 metres by 60 ) that they had to be woven in situ , since they would have been too long and far too heavy to transport to the building , and certainly could not have been manoeuvred through its maze of passages . |
| 18 | Anglo-Scots had a theory — perhaps justified by Bridie 's remark — that they had to be twice as good as a home-bred player to break through into the national team , whereas those North of the Border believed the corollary . |
| 19 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 20 | In contrast with the patient and virtuous English , the French were portrayed as , at best , dissembling , unscrupulous and bellicose ; in fact , the patriotic exuberance of some clergy so overwhelmed Christian charity that they had to be warned against making their prayers too bloodthirsty ! |
| 21 | When in 1857 something new began to grow in Nova Scotia Gardens , financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts at the prompting of Dickens , the residents protested so vehemently that they had to be pacified by the architect and restrained by the law . |
| 22 | I 'd pretty much made up my mind that they had to be forced into action , but it was such a difficult decision . |
| 23 | The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor . |
| 24 | And that that came round er I mean they were stamped and er the turn you know the each I I do n't I do n't remember what what they were examined , but er th you know the the that was the law that they had to be . |
| 25 | Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles . |
| 26 | approximately twenty-five per cent of the children evacuated were in such a filthy condition that they had to be specially treated . |
| 27 | Indeed in the Rubin and Kozin ( 1984 ) study subjects were asked to describe ‘ flashbulb memories ’ without the constraint that they had to be related to newsworthy events . |
| 28 | It was only when Gould declared on 28 February 1837 , that Darwin 's island specimens of the Galapagos mocking bird differed so profoundly that they had to be categorised as three completely distinct species , that the alarm bells began to ring . |
| 29 | In response to the CNAA 's complaint the DES agreed to circularize colleges warning them that they had to be prepared to satisfy CNAA requirements , and indicating that the DES would not be prepared to entertain new courses in excess of likely demand . |
| 30 | I knew a self-employed barman by the name of Kenny who , the Christmas before , had thought up the wicked scheme of telling the chestnut-roasters that they had to be licensed street vendors . |