Example sentences of "[vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Insured considered the safety of the property and took precautions even though they transpired to be inadequate . |
| 2 | In 1852 Ellerton moved to be senior curate at Brighton parish church , and to hold the evening lectureship at the chapel of ease , St Peter 's . |
| 3 | The examinations , tailored to be selective , make no concession to this , nor do they make allowance for the wide range of academic ability and preparedness among the candidates . |
| 4 | At the Paradise Club they come out fighting — with a set tailored to be brash and bruising . |
| 5 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 6 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 7 | Last month another group of rebels , the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front , promised to be equally generous with the port of Massawa : it said it would allow food to be moved from there to the government-held town of Asmara . |
| 8 | The forthcoming debate promised to be a highly uncomfortable occasion with my defence alternating between ‘ no decisions have been taken ’ and ‘ wait and see ’ . |
| 9 | PRAGUE to Zurich promised to be a better-than-average test drive for a new model . |
| 10 | In the end , I promised to be confirmed when all became clear . |
| 11 | You really are not so handsome as you promised to be ; and I have long wished , by conversation like this , to do away what mischief the flattering character I gave of you may expose you to . |
| 12 | New England , I knew , would be ablaze with colour in autumn , so the drive promised to be a spectacular one . |
| 13 | The open semi finals promised to be two very tight games and they did not disappoint . |
| 14 | I 'm told , though , that she went with some relief — because she would n't be around to witness what promised to be the ghastly ignominy of election day . |
| 15 | At least one application , fault diagnosis , promised to be highly cost effective . |
| 16 | And it promised to be the most weird — was definitely the most lethal . |
| 17 | ‘ Simon de Montfort ’ could be the first lecture on the Friday morning , to be followed by ‘ The Battle of Evesham ’ , which promised to be quite enlightening . |
| 18 | Following Church of Scotland tradition , the couple promised to be ‘ loving , faithful and loyal , until God shall part us by death . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 20 | With limitations so precisely and clearly defined , the exercise Promised to be innocuous . |
| 21 | On the first occasion , I remembered , I had found a highly personable stray kitten and before the week was up had delivered it to what promised to be a good new home adjacent to that jokey castle . |
| 22 | We always promised to be at each other 's wedding , and if I do n't turn up she 'll be upset . |
| 23 | One of the meanings of ‘ promise ’ is ‘ give cause for expecting ’ , as in ‘ He promised to be stout when grown up ’ ( Daniel Defoe ) . |
| 24 | We realised straight away that the Landrover was a good choice of vehicle because even the main roads were pretty rough , and we intended spending most of our time in the north of the island where road and track conditions promised to be even worse . |
| 25 | A third of SNI 's revenue still comes from mainframes , and 18 new 7500 machines running the enhanced BS2000/OSD1 operating system — promised to be Posix compliant and running the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment by the end of 1994 — will also emerge at Hannover . |
| 26 | At first , the war seemed a long way away , and the Otago CA reported that the 1914–15 summer promised to be a most successful one , with the ‘ services of world-renowned player , J.N. Crawford ’ ensuring that Otago cricket would be second to none in New Zealand . |
| 27 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 28 | Expanding your market by selling to schools promised to be a controversial session , and did not disappoint . |
| 29 | The summer promised to be delicious , but nothing is ever perfect . |
| 30 | Caught in what promised to be a whirlpool of conflicting dogmatic beliefs , Eric , who did n't care either way so long as I was happy , went off to see Mgr O'Flaherty , a well-known priest who had given help and shelter to large numbers of escaping prisoners-of-war and was now an important figure in the Holy Office . |