Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority . |
| 2 | Because on this occasion the fame seemed such a foregone conclusion , there was less talk than usual about its progress , which was a disappointment to those on our side who desperately wanted to be able to display modesty about their achievements . |
| 3 | and this Molly she always had to be different |
| 4 | The term itself only began to be generally used in the early nineteenth century in Western Europe , and one of the first systematic discussions is to be found in the book by Lorenz von Stein , where the social movement is portrayed as a struggle for greater social independence culminating in the class struggle of the proletariat . |
| 5 | It was by chance and with the support of a visiting teacher of drawing who also happened to be a lecturer at Goldsmiths College that I succeeded in getting a place at art school , the first and last totally blind student to have ever done so in Britain . |
| 6 | But most poignant of all was the deserted Ministry of Culture , Slovak Republic stand staffed by a collective of solemnly seated , moustached , chain-smoking , dark suited gentlemen who clearly wanted to be somewhere else . |
| 7 | The National Party had in March 1990 committed itself to maintaining the ban which then ceased to be a domestic political issue . |
| 8 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 9 | Not so popular was the experimental survival section of the course which always seemed to be carried out in extremely inclement weather with a helicopter helping to increase the discomfort of tossing about on a life raft in Plymouth Sound . |
| 10 | The sulphur was burned off , thus producing a lead oxide which then had to be reduced leaving behind the pure lead . |
| 11 | Morality itself now began to be redefined . |
| 12 | Such clues would add to the embarrassing riches of intelligence which had recently flooded in to Napoleon 's headquarters from Belgians who desperately wanted to be part of France again . |
| 13 | Stupidly , she had hoped that Silas would invite her to sit at his table , but instead she was led to a small one by a girl she later learned to be Stella 's daughter , Jean . |
| 14 | By the time Tennyson revisited Cauterets , in 1861 , what he thought of as a village he now found to be , in his less poetic moods , ‘ an odious watering-place ’ , and that is a transition you can readily enough trace in the architecture today . |
| 15 | Prayer itself therefore had to be personal , spontaneous and joyous . |
| 16 | Joan Halton is disturbed by an old guilt related to the underlying resentment and fury she felt in respect of her younger sister who always seemed to be allowed to come first . |
| 17 | Last year 's , th the f the first stockings I ever went to was brilliant , they had Right Said Fred live |
| 18 | Only time would tell now whether it would go without mishap I just had to be patient . |
| 19 | Two establishments of furtive commerce which marked the end of the part of St Jude 's Street which even tried to be respectable . |
| 20 | This results from a kind of double vision which blurs the difference between the historical interpretation of contemporary economic advice and the evaluation of ideas which subsequently proved to be significant in the evolution of economic theory . |
| 21 | Even in physics and chemistry they still appeared to be within the grasp of the ‘ practical man ’ — say a civil engineer . |
| 22 | Burton was in a hit — and a classy hit — and in the tonnage of reviews he rarely failed to be mentioned , often praised . |
| 23 | The springboard for these changes was ‘ Fresh Start ’ , a concerted move in the prison service to change working practices , deployment of staff and work patterns ; to move towards local accountability and control and to deal with industrial relations problems which otherwise looked to be endemic . |
| 24 | One of his associates was the noted bibliophile Richard de Bury , later Bishop of Durham , and it was he who informed the Pope , in response to a message conveyed verbally , that requests which the king himself really wished to be carried out would bear the words Pater Sancte in his own hand . |
| 25 | ‘ Yeah , for a while we really tried to be serious , ’ admits Puttnam . |
| 26 | ‘ Yeah , for a while we really tried to be serious , ’ admits Puttnam . |
| 27 | ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again . |
| 28 | And Robert , who was by now learning the basic rule that if anybody said anything interesting it was probably Muhammad , would ask if by any chance it just happened to be a saying of the Prophet , to which the headmaster would reply , his eyes shining , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 29 | Hoare said last night it now expected to be trimming its full year forecast back from the £30m pencilled in so far . |
| 30 | It was about elderly people I just wanted to be properly cared for . |