Example sentences of "that [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked like a small animal that expected to be surprised at any moment . |
| 2 | Said to Bert that got to be a right dopey dick to ride a bike with no mudguards on . |
| 3 | I heard Alec saying , in a voice that tried to be light and urgent at the same time , ‘ We 're ready , sir , ’ and I heard the reply : ‘ Well I 'm not . |
| 4 | They was t that tried to be the strike breakers and there was several of their buses turned over you 've probably read that have you in the |
| 5 | I once voluntarily threw away something that promised to be special , and very , very wonderful , and do n't intend to do so again . |
| 6 | When ( the HoD ) was writing the self-appraisal we were n't that involved to be honest . |
| 7 | That afternoon there was a voice among us that seemed to be leading the whole thing — anything he say is what we thinking , but before . |
| 8 | Yet many people in Victorian Britain were not indifferent to the widening divisions between rich and poor that seemed to be a consequence of this ideology . |
| 9 | Finding it impossible to break into movies after the production slump of the 1940s , before television offered an alternative route to aspiring filmmakers , people like Anderson , Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz worked instead within sponsored documentaries , while writing about the sort of passionate , personal filmmaking that seemed to be possible in France , Italy , even India , but not in Britain . |
| 10 | During the 1960s , he demonstrated that dolphins could produce sounds in air that seemed to be direct and relevant imitations of human speech patterns . |
| 11 | The important thing , though , was that they paid their admission fee before they became totally paralytic and abusive ; that seemed to be all that really mattered . |
| 12 | Because of his death , aged just forty-two , he is also thought of as a tragic figure , a man who was unable to fulfil the important public service to his people that seemed to be his destiny . |
| 13 | When Palmer made a hash of a perfectly weighted through pass from Dozzell two minutes from the end , that seemed to be that . |
| 14 | What made things more disconcerting was a strange banging noise that seemed to be coming from the ceiling . |
| 15 | While Robyn was hesitating , the office began to fill up with men wearing drab suits and dull ties and with the pasty complexions that seemed to be common to everybody who worked in the factory . |
| 16 | Bernard was on a round the world trip and he had a system worked out for the South American leg that seemed to be based on the storming of Himalayan peaks . |
| 17 | Someone , smiling , said ‘ Poor wee bastard , ’ and that seemed to be the extent of feeling for Alec . |
| 18 | No ; it was a particular feeling that seemed to be lacking in the three of them . |
| 19 | Let's face it , Rangers are the biggest club in Scotland , but they had an attitude that seemed to be against change and against progress . |
| 20 | He frowned as he strode along , thudding his staff on the ground at every stride , but still it was the loss of the sack rather than of the children that seemed to be the cause of his anger . |
| 21 | John Ostrom once pointed to the teeth of duckbills that seemed to be specialized for the grinding of coarse plant foods . |
| 22 | The Maggot whooped , dragged the stick back and our earthwards wing lifted and suddenly we were screaming just above the palm trees , close to the tiled roofs and at a speed that seemed to be doubled because of our proximity to the ground . |
| 23 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had produced fusion in their test-tube because when they passed electrical current through it , more heat was produced than they could account for , and in amounts extending over hundreds of hours that seemed to be far in excess of what is possible in a normal chemical reaction . |
| 24 | The only thing that seemed to be stirring most people was their scorn of Chamberlain . |
| 25 | The increasing accuracy of weapons — even those delivered by aircraft and rocket — may reopen some possibilities for discrimination in targeting that seemed to be closed in the air operations of the two World Wars . |
| 26 | Piladu was carrying a newborn lamb that seemed to be hanging lifelessly under his arm . |
| 27 | And that seemed to be it for the night . |
| 28 | Shipton would have been saddened to see the old rotting tins and abandoned jerrycans that seemed to be typical of all military movement in this area . |
| 29 | Francis did n't like to study them too closely : they were even more disturbing than the strange plants that seemed to be growing everywhere on the planet . |
| 30 | She tried to ignore the feeling , as well as the insistent whispering voices that seemed to be always at the edge of her hearing . |