Example sentences of "and [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Deploring Cromwell 's Protectorate as a betrayal of the saints ' quest for a godly commonwealth , Moyer lost his lucrative customs post and ceased to be publicly employed , except as ( nominally ) a JP and ( from 1655 ) a master of Trinity House . |
| 32 | Queen Elizabeth II accepted the resignation of Ratu Ganilau on Oct. 15 , and ceased to be Fiji 's head of state ( and the Commonwealth heads of government , meeting in Vancouver , Canada , on Oct. 16 declared Fiji 's membership to have lapsed — see pp. 35606-07 ) . |
| 33 | All entrants to the competition are deemed to have accepted the rules and agreed to be bound by them . |
| 34 | All entrants to the competition are deemed to have accepted the rules and agreed to be bound by them . |
| 35 | The archdeacon in the king 's presence appointed his brother Richard to perform the duties of his Forest office in his place , and agreed to be responsible for him . |
| 36 | In the Radio 5 broadcast , Johnny Morris was keen to learn more about early music-making and agreed to be guest of honour for this year 's festival . |
| 37 | The area of ground selected was described somewhat imprecisely as : ‘ All that piece of ground situate north of Fig Lane [ now Crowndale Road ] St Pancras extending northwards from thence 650 feet on average abutting Eastwards on the Church path leading to Kentish Town and is in a parallel breadth 270 feet abutting Westward on other Ground intended and agreed to be used as Garden Ground by the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy or the Undertenants and no buildings to be erected thereon which shall raise more than 12 feet above the present surface and nearer than 80 feet to the ground hereby lett and that they will reserve a Street or way 60 feet wide at the least at the northern extremity of the said ground and that the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy do engage to lett to the Veterinary College a piece or any part of their ground at any time within twelve months which they the College shall determine upon a ranging line with the north extremity of the piece already described at and after the rate of £30 per acre nett which are the same terms as the ground described and mentioned are lett at and also at and upon the same reservation of the pepper corn Rent . ’ |
| 38 | Joshi and a small group of supporters had decided to abandon the march at Jammu , ostensibly because of a landslide blocking the route , and agreed to be flown to Srinigar aboard an Indian Air Force carrier . |
| 39 | Two years later the remaining French troops were confronted by a Turkish-British land force and agreed to be shipped home , to be followed voluntarily by the British . |
| 40 | After being acquitted Livingstone admitted possessing a five-inch knife as an offensive weapon on a separate occasion and agreed to be put on probation for twelve months . |
| 41 | It is as it was designed and made to be , for the artist has had leisure to add beauty to use . |
| 42 | The giving of the necessities of life from one who has the goods to give , to one who has not , is the province of charity , and charity , relieved of its religious trappings and admitted to be a matter of free will , is a wholly commendable human virtue . |
| 43 | To the very end of his long life he continued to be consulted about these types of issues , and lived to be present at the Pan Anglican Congress of 1908 , at which so many of his ideals were acclaimed . |
| 44 | Rodinal 's characteristics have to be seen and experienced to be believed . |
| 45 | For example , regulatory agencies should be strengthened , particularly in their legal departments , so that it would be possible to nurture a pool of state lawyers sufficiently specialized and experienced to be a fair match for corporate lawyers . |
| 46 | I never used to worry about getting fat , I supposed that 's one reason I did so much over-eating and got to be 13 ½ stone , which is massive when you 're 5ft 2ins ! |
| 47 | What seeped out of the and mixed with some air from there would have been a little dung in it to it stood half the summer and got to be really high . |
| 48 | Kisekka , who was appointed Vice-President , was in his mid-70s and reported to be in poor health ; in February 1988 he had been given three deputies to ease his workload . |
| 49 | More recently , biofeedback treatment has been suggested and reported to be effective in about two thirds of patients . |
| 50 | JAMES SERVICE ( 1823–1899 ) emigrated to Melbourne in the 1840s and formed a large commercial firm ; he entered state politics and rose to be Premier of Victoria from 1883 to 1885 . |
| 51 | This he might find in the service of a bishop ; for many bishops in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming to have large staffs of young clerks , who learned the business of ecclesiastical administration and rose to be canons or archdeacons , or were seconded or translated to the royal service . |
| 52 | Bauthumley fought for Parliament and rose to be quartermaster in Colonel Cox 's regiment . |
| 53 | ‘ See ya later alligator , ’ he waved his hand and pretended to be chewing something . |
| 54 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 55 | Then he flew up beside Cassowary and pretended to be listening to the song . |
| 56 | He reached for the bottle but Oliver got there first and pretended to be reading the label . |
| 57 | I kept my head down and pretended to be consuming the scraps left on my dish . |
| 58 | The girls giggled and pretended to be unimpressed . |
| 59 | I took down the battered , broken-spined A-Z I keep taped to the driver 's sun visor and pretended to be looking something up . |
| 60 | Instead he went over to one of the shelves and pretended to be searching for a book . |