Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly running the club successfully seemed to be the most important thing in her life . |
| 2 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 3 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 4 | As one friend notes : ‘ Sarah always had to be the best at everything . |
| 5 | Joseph Bédier , the French scholar whose book published exactly a hundred years ago proved to be the inception of modern fabliau studies , inferred from the number of known authors and the number of anonymous fabliaux that only about one-eighth of the original corpus survives . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The presence of Zimbabwean troops in Mozambique now appeared to be the principal obstacle to a ceasefire , with the MNR demanding their complete withdrawal as a precondition for any such agreement . |
| 8 | The only excitement in her life now seemed to be the exchange of clothes for hats by Mrs Bretton-Fawcett . |
| 9 | SALFORD JUNIORS again proved to be the giant killers in last weekend 's quarter-finals of the Burtonwood Brewery Lancashire Cup . |
| 10 | The smaller boroughs also tended to be the most vulnerable to electoral manipulation , either through " treating " , as at a number of venal boroughs , or through tampering with the composition of the franchise . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |