Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was true that the members of the court sometimes seemed to be in competition in their attempts to gratify Artai 's vanity . |
| 32 | If the Vietminh still seemed to be the only movement capable of achieving the fulfilment of the people 's aspiration to national independence and to social justice , it nevertheless ruled with the aid of physical terror and moral constraint . |
| 33 | The old monastic sites along the Twyver later came to be known as Barnwood , Court Farm , Fishers , Woods , Browns , Morins and Abbey Mills , the latter adjacent to the Cathedral , in what became known as Millers Green . |
| 34 | The benefits of consolidating the businesses also had to be brought through — the Horsham site is now up for sale . |
| 35 | Barratt soon made tubbing a semi-mechanical process though the dross still had to be scraped off at regular intervals ( perhaps for further jigging ) , and also the copper ore for further concentration . |
| 36 | The paper also seemed to be adopting the use of skin : a site where pleasure and pain are felt and negotiated , a protection from ‘ alien ’ matter , a ‘ keeper ’ of temperature . |
| 37 | The theory therefore had to be abandoned . |
| 38 | In the afternoon the pupils could relax playing games though the staff still had to be on their toes refereeing . |
| 39 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |
| 40 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 41 | But the star of the show just had to be Boy George , who was so inspired , he bought the outfit he modelled . |
| 42 | The police just happened to be checking cars today . |
| 43 | The image soon came to be reproduced in Teutonic style . |
| 44 | Childish perhaps , but the number never had to be written down . |
| 45 | Darwinism never received a welcome in France , where in place of Darwin 's historical and probabilistic method the way forward seemed to be in laboratory physiology . |
| 46 | Regulation prior to the FSA also tended to be fragmented , and largely on an institutional rather than functional basis — Insurance Company Act 1982 , Banking Act 1979 , Lloyds of London 1982 . |
| 47 | Furthermore , the company also seemed to be reneging on some of the assurances given to placate Scottish interests during the takeover battle . |
| 48 | The company also claimed to be investing in the use of biotechnology to neutralise waste and plans to recycle CFCs and plastics [ ED no. 40 ] . |
| 49 | But what was suddenly seen as extraordinary was that the supernatural , the miraculous , and certain doctrines were just as present in the layers now believed to be the earliest as they were in the layers believed to be later . |
| 50 | The system therefore had to be both hardware and network independent . |
| 51 | In both the following examples relating to money transactions , the display also had to be interpreted because the result of the multiplication in each case was a complete tenth of a pound . |
| 52 | It was as big as the island itself , if not bigger , and the rocks below seemed to be wobbling under the strain of holding it up . |
| 53 | As the Whigs gradually began to retreat from their erstwhile espousal of populist causes , the Tories increasingly appeared to be the party with more to offer ordinary people . |
| 54 | No one attempted to rebuild it , and the house soon reverted to being a farmhouse , as which it appeared in the film of Thomas Hardy 's Far from the Madding Crowd . |
| 55 | Decoration work in the house still had to be done and about £2,000 still had to be raised to meet annual running costs . |
| 56 | But with more declaration of the law by the pope there came to be a demand , particularly among judges and scholars , for compendiums or collections of these decisions , for the canon law was , like English common law , a case law or law built upon precedent . |
| 57 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 58 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 59 | Half a love surely had to be better than none at all ? |
| 60 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |