Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Richard Dunwoody always appeared to be going the best and Baydon Star was a comfortable four-length winner , with the third horse Mailcom 30 lengths away . |
| 2 | New east-west fold mountains immediately began to be destroyed again , producing mountains of conglomerate such as the fantastic shapes of Montserrat , near Barcelona ( plate 8.1 ) which is remarkable even in a country of conglomerates like Spain . |
| 3 | A minute later she had the result , and although the scales were less accurate than those at Dr Greene 's consulting-rooms , the weight gain still seemed to be dramatic . |
| 4 | School meals and milk as well as education maintenance allowances increasingly came to be regarded as complements to a universal scheme of family allowances by its advocates rather than alternatives as had been argued , for example , at the Trades Union Congress in 1930 . |
| 5 | The desert sand sometimes seemed to be made up of pellets of dried yeast , road-workers ' grit , or face-powder . |
| 6 | Mains had been born and bred in Dunedin and , especially in the days when the Evening Star newspaper folded , the rugby matters then tended to be faithfully recorded by the Otago Daily Times and other electronic media as if Otago was sometimes being unfairly treated by the teams and newspaper writers from the north . |
| 7 | Greta Garbo even asked to be introduced to them . |
| 8 | We know that Dr Carrington ultimately asked to be allowed to die . |
| 9 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 10 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 11 | Rangers ' boss Walter yesterday refused to be drawn into any speculation about the possibility of the champions of Scotland and England meeting . |
| 12 | Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown both chose to be filmed — on separate days — at the Travellers ' Club in Pall Mall , while John Major opted for Downing Street once again . |
| 13 | At the same time , serious threats to the stability of the infant democracy also had to be confronted . |
| 14 | The puppet is an exhibit at a cartoon gallery in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the real Mr Heseltine just happened to be passing through . |
| 15 | He and Sir John now appeared to be bosom friends and I secretly wondered if the Santerres had suborned this bumbling servant of the crown . |
| 16 | In the mid-1970s things still seemed to be going well . |
| 17 | Even the ex-scumnik , Tundrish , spoke with reasonable fluency , though in his case concepts sometimes seemed to be lacking to accompany the words which burbled from his mouth , as if as yet he possessed more words than meanings . |
| 18 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 19 | A Hamilton spokesman yesterday refused to be drawn into the political controversy created by proposed pit closures . |
| 20 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |
| 21 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 22 | But Lord Howe today refused to be drawn on the rumours . |
| 23 | Church funds also came to be used in special cases to buy the emancipation of Christian slaves , but the church did not have a general programme for the abolition of slavery . |
| 24 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 25 | The steady state theory therefore had to be abandoned . |
| 26 | On the trade unions too , the Thatcher government again proved to be more cautious than its language might imply . |
| 27 | LENNOX Lewis today pledged to be a truly British-based world champion . |
| 28 | Juliet could n't help thinking how elegant Moira Charles always appeared to be , never a blonde hair out of place , never a crease in her dress . |
| 29 | In retrospect the debates on the Bill had a curious air of unreality … government spokesmen often seemed to be stating simple lessons in economic theory … |
| 30 | The nature of the urban crisis , to which town planning was addressed , also changed in that housing solutions increasingly had to be prepared in recognition of public opinion . |