Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | This promised to be the kind of job he most liked . |
| 32 | It promised to be another brilliant day . |
| 33 | His aunt and uncle promised to be witnesses , but were dissuaded by his mother at the last moment . |
| 34 | She and her father had visited many places of historical interest , including several castles , but the small castle perched on its rock promised to be special . |
| 35 | It would be so easy to say yes to everything he was asking of her ; she would n't have his love but she would have his arms round her all through the nights that , from now on , promised to be lonely . |
| 36 | It promised to be a microcosm of Lancashire life in the depressed ‘ thirties . |
| 37 | We all promised to be careful . |
| 38 | I once voluntarily threw away something that promised to be special , and very , very wonderful , and do n't intend to do so again . |
| 39 | All in all , it promised to be another heavenly day , she thought , feeling her spirits rise almost perceptibly . |
| 40 | I promised to be in a certain place by this time tomorrow , and I intend to be there . |
| 41 | Since they would n't be working the boat today and because the weather promised to be hot again , she 'd elected to wear a short skirt and skimpy blouse , together with the sandals he had decried as being unsuitable . |
| 42 | Although our debate today will continue until 2 am , there is a long list of hon. Members who wish to speak and I promised to be brief . |
| 43 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 44 | The Agreement provided for massive UN involvement , and work had already started on raising finance from donor countries for what promised to be the UN 's most substantial peacekeeping operation ; some estimates put the cost at up to US$2,000 million . |
| 45 | With polls showing a clear majority of voters in favour of preserving the right to abortion , the issue promised to be particularly difficult for the Republican Party which was deeply divided upon the abortion question . |
| 46 | As you can view , world peace is not all it promised to be , so if your planet ever has the choice of voting for world peace , do not follow the example of the planet Earth . |
| 47 | On the contrary , their objective was not to overthrow the Franco regime but to adapt it to meet the demands of what promised to be a more international future . |
| 48 | This promised to be a difficult task ; hence the need for professional economists in the cabinet . |
| 49 | The Alpine snows closed over his militant steps , and the sinners he had excommunicated for one reason or another turned their thoughts from irregular union or simony , if they had ever been on them , and peered into the mists of what promised to be a very long vacancy . |
| 50 | Because , on this occasion , the other four Great Powers seemed to agree with the Russian Foreign Minister , the crisis promised to be short-lived . |
| 51 | Their fleets soon arrived at Constantinople and the war promised to be the most wide-ranging since the fall of the first Napoleon . |
| 52 | Neither the creation of the Secret Committee on the Peasant Question , however , nor the orders to Nazimov promised to be significant milestones . |
| 53 | Her turquoise swimsuit was already being remorselessly dispensed with , and as further protests were silenced by Guy 's laughing mouth covering hers , and her writhing body was explored by his skilful fingers , the laughter was replaced by something much more urgent and potent , as Guy tossed the clinging garment aside , and spread-eagled his wife with breathtaking impatience across the towel , proceeding to demonstrate an audacious variation on what promised to be another perfectly designed performance … |
| 54 | The Euro leg of the Zoo TV tour promised to be spectacular and , on the evidence of events at Dublin 's RDS Showjumping Arena on Saturday night , it was . |
| 55 | The band , who promised to be massive after an effortless rise to the top during the Manchester thingy in 1990 , eventually became a figure of fun in the music Press . |
| 56 | Yet it was still a tour which promised to be the peak of Gooch 's great 18-year international career . |
| 57 | It was widely known that this promised to be a vintage year for books , thanks to an amazingly generous benefaction from a special friend of St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 58 | it 's not the illusion it promised to be the answer was here all the time . |
| 59 | They are separated by major fault zones , in most cases now demonstrated to be thrusts , which have on average an east-west trend . |
| 60 | Bourjois ' Cil 18 Heures Mascara , £3.79 , for instance contains an ingredient called a hydrophobic polymer which improves the mascara 's resistance to water , whilst Lancôme 's Definicil Mascara , £12 , has a brush made of a substance called Rislan designed to be extra gentle on your lashes . |