Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider . |
| 2 | WELL THERE 'S THE perfect hanging clause , and one that turns out to be surprisingly difficult to complete . |
| 3 | Could that answer be an intellectual deceit because you did n't , and do n't wish to be publicly identified as the boy going through travails that turns out to be so controversial ? |
| 4 | Her murder-solving cook Darina Lisle discovers more intrigue when she takes a job at a dying country house hotel that turns out to be a hotbed of sex and mystery . |
| 5 | I think network marketing I think it I think that turns out to be jolly hard work because if you 're not recruiting it 's the recruitment part of it . |
| 6 | We , like the Chancellor , hope that turns out to be the case . ’ |
| 7 | On feet that tried desperately to be silent , Belinda crept away , not stopping or turning round until she reached the looming mass of the house . |
| 8 | After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings . |
| 9 | This is a puzzle that has yet to be answered . |
| 10 | Beautifully constructed courses which immensely satisfy both student and teacher alike with their intelligence and vigour , they have set a standard for classroom work that has yet to be matched . ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the situation is made more complicated by variations in the design : several of the objects have four eyes or nipples instead of the expected two , so there is probably some additional layer of symbolic meaning that has yet to be penetrated . |
| 12 | The articles amount to premature judgment of an issue that has yet to be subjected to valid peer review . |
| 13 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 14 | His work retained a pronounced individuality and originality that has yet to be properly acknowledged . |
| 15 | The next event will take place in April , at a venue that has yet to be arranged , but will probably be in the Lothians . |
| 16 | But all that is to characterise rather than to explain , and the lofty prestige of universities in the post-war world remains a phenomenon that has still to be convincingly analysed . |
| 17 | With regard to phases of spectacular radiation , the two most important in the Phanerozoic record , affecting a large variety of organisms , correlate closely with major physical events that appear ultimately to be bound up with plate tectonics . |
| 18 | ‘ As you probably know , Major Maxim is attached to Number 10 for duties that appear not to be precisely defined but touch on security matters . |
| 19 | The ditch seemed a long time ago : two weeks and three days back to the lonely silent abandoned struggle in the attic , to the life that seemed now to be the dream , with Shellerton the reality . |
| 20 | It was this principle that seemed now to be inadequate . |
| 21 | Where is the Wagon Train that seemed permanently to be circling its wagons waiting for a drunken pioneer 's wife to have twins in the last of them ? |
| 22 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
| 23 | And the Democrats among them also know that if they went on record against a war that turned out to be a great victory , President Bush would be even harder to beat in 1992 . |
| 24 | Even that turned out to be no simple task . |
| 25 | Somehow him telling that lie that turned out to be nearly true made him feel that it was his fault . |
| 26 | She had dragged him into a room that turned out to be empty . |
| 27 | He emerged amongst the Egyptian heavyweights and saw , between two huge stone legs , something rapid and white and golden that turned out to be Fergus Wolff , also heading for coffee . |
| 28 | Fergus sprawled in the cafeteria banquette and said the challenge was to deconstruct something that had apparently already deconstructed itself , since the book was about a painting that turned out to be nothing but a chaotic mass of brush-strokes . |
| 29 | A TEENAGER died in a blaze at his home after firemen were diverted by a call that turned out to be a student prank . |
| 30 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |