Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how well matched Harry and Cora-Beth appeared to be , Aubrey was rapidly coming to the conclusion that Harry still harboured romantic memories of his sister . |
| 2 | The pitch was rock hard and slippy and Hereford looked to be sliding into trouble when Shrewsbury full-back , Graeme Worsley thumped his team into the lead in the second half . |
| 3 | February and March look to be the most volatile months and a stringent cutback or a rationalisation of your financial situation could be essential . |
| 4 | And Marcus came to be walking between them to a partitioned corner of the changing room . |
| 5 | We want our system , just as surely as France and Germany want to be free to enjoy their systems . |
| 6 | I was merely making a boring journey by river and Luxor happened to be at the end of it . ’ |
| 7 | But there was no suggestion that Gray had been involved in anything improper and Jefferson continued to be involved in youth work . |
| 8 | The lessons of such experiences as NADP/GMTS and MESOL seem to be that the issues are as much about targeting and fully funding as about elitism . |
| 9 | In addition Eleanor and Marie appear to be central figures in a treatise entitled De Amore written by Andrew , a chaplain at the court of Champagne in the early 1180s . |
| 10 | Ricky and Alejandro had to be dragged away from the horses to a lunch laid out on a blue-and-white checked tablecloth under the gum trees . |
| 11 | Celts , Goths , Visigoths , Huns , Avars , Magyars , Cumans , Pechenegs , Tatars , Mongols , Turks have all had to take or occupy its key fortresses ; hence the importance of Belgrade , of Budapest , even of Vienna , for that gap between the Northern Carpathians and the Eastern Alps which lies between Vienna and Bratislava has to be traversed to gain access to the German plain . |
| 12 | After weeks of violence culminating in the brutal murder of a magistrate , Rosario Livatino , in Sicily on Sept. 21 , President Francesco Cossiga had warned in an open letter to parliament on Sept. 23 that " whole regions of Italy are now controlled by the Mafia , not by the state " and that Sicily , Campania and Calabria needed to be " reconquered " . |
| 13 | It seems likely that Fahreddin Acemi was indeed muderris at Murad II 's Darulhadis , but the evidence on this point , which comes from the biography of Molla Ala " al-Din Ali al- " Arabi ( Molla Arab ) , is not altogether firm since Taskopruzade and Mecdi appear to be at odds on the matter . |
| 14 | This fight between Ted and Jean seemed to be her life 's single pleasure , and who could blame her ? |
| 15 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 16 | Wallace and Deane seem to be sparking a bit though . |
| 17 | Bevan , Matthews , O'Donnell , Reiffel , Scuderi and Zoehrer seem to be the likely omissions from the final 14 if Bruce Reid is fit . |
| 18 | On the face of it the motives of Ford and Fiat appeared to be similar , but the key difference was that Ford 's share of the Italian car market was minimal , whereas Fiat 's was in excess of 55 per cent . |
| 19 | The Holy Roman Emperor , the shah of Persia and the sultan in Constantinople were honoured with large sheets ( the fact that two of the three were non-European illustrates how large a role Asia still played in Russian foreign policy ) , while the kings of Sweden , Poland , England and Denmark had to be content with smaller ones . |
| 20 | HP and IBM seem to be taking a vanguard position in this thing and are pretty cosy themselves ( UX No 430 ) . |
| 21 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM seem to be taking a vanguard position in this thing and are pretty cosy themselves . |
| 22 | The bills were mounting up and Nigel seemed to be earning less and less . |
| 23 | Marshy land to the south and north-west restricts the area considerably and Alcester appears to be a good example of a small carefully selected defended enclosure in a much larger settlement ( fig. 7.2 ) . |
| 24 | Security was tighter here than it had been in the Union building , and Reynolds had to be signed in by Diane before he could be issued with a visitor 's pass . |
| 25 | Amongst the one-third of the urban population of London and York whom Booth and Rowntree found to be in poverty at the end of the nineteenth century , the chief concern of the married women was to provide food , clothing and shelter for themselves and their children . |
| 26 | France , Germany , The Netherlands and Spain proved to be the most popular for UK bidders . |
| 27 | But the Cold War was fundamentally one of history 's wars of religion , and there were those who realized that the struggle to preserve American Ideals from the ideas of Marx and Lenin had to be conducted on a religious or moral plane . |
| 28 | To Orderic Vitalis , an Anglo-Norman monk of the early twelfth century , the love poetry of Aquitaine and Provence seemed to be evidence of the moral corruption of the south . |
| 29 | Bristol and Coventry happened to be playing against each other . |
| 30 | The drummer lashed out at Tom and caught him a glancing blow on the jaw and Tom had to be held back by Ollie to prevent him retaliating . |