Example sentences of "[noun] the [noun] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The envelope was sent by ‘ Mr J. Burrows ’ — the name Elvis often used as a nom-de-plume and , in case the letter had to be ‘ returned to sender ’ , the address he gave was ‘ 3764 E. P. Blvd ’ , Memphis — his Graceland home on Elvis Presley Boulevard . |
| 2 | In this case the intervention appeared to be working so no modification was considered . |
| 3 | There were a few startled shrieks , but for the most part the patrons seemed to be enjoying the sudden element of adventure that had been added to their evening . |
| 4 | In both cases the shock had to be overwhelming and painful in the extreme if it was to generate the civilizing consequences of respect for , and maintenance of , the great taboos of civilization . |
| 5 | For example , in two cases the attackers pretended to be taxi-drivers , but it was stated that ‘ police do not believe the assaults [ on a 17-year-old girl and a woman aged 25 ] were linked ’ ( Daily Mail ) . |
| 6 | For technical reasons the house had to be set back under a steep bank , and so feels slightly cramped . |
| 7 | The sequel was the War Powers Act ( 1973 ) under which the President had to inform Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces abroad ; in addition the forces had to be withdrawn unless the action was formally authorized by Congress . |
| 8 | And then of course when the First World , World War came along , th a lot of cars were remade into ambulances and er then of course the lorries began to be , come into their own . |
| 9 | Of course the message had to be wrapped in a fairly light romantic story but at the time of the opening there was concern that publicity was concentrating too much on the comedy and not enough on the ‘ timeliness ’ of the film . |
| 10 | A spectacular way : all through breakfast , the track ran along the north shore of Lake Superior , so close that at times the train seemed to be overhanging the water . |
| 11 | Robbed of its supply of shingle from the west the spit began to be swung round to face the dominant waves , i.e. those from the southwest . |
| 12 | With such quality in their ranks the Baa-Baas refused to be humiliated even when Darren Garforth thundered over to make it 24-3 . |
| 13 | After his collapse the performance had to be cancelled . |
| 14 | I gave talks on those subjects the participants judged to be of most interest ( e.g. tense and aspect , sentence connexion ) , and the Workshop progressed from the theoretical basis of communicative grammar to descriptive topics , and finally ( in the last two days ) to detailed devising and planning of teaching materials . |
| 15 | Under the old law of larceny the thing had to be carried away ( asportation ) . |
| 16 | So far , we have seen that while physics was viewed by students as exciting and forward-looking , in practice the teaching tended to be conventional and hierarchical , very much like school , with students being given a body of information to absorb . |
| 17 | However , by the mid-1960s the question had to be asked whether decision making would be more in the hands of the states , operating through bargaining and trade-offs , or rest with the Commission . |
| 18 | Their heroic resistance first on the Bataan peninsula and then at the fortress of Corregidor gave the Western Allies a breathing space , but on 6 May the Philippines had to be surrendered . |
| 19 | Because Forster 's tale about two clashing families — the stuffy Wilcoxes and the emancipated Schlegels — is set in Edwardian England the house had to be decorated in period style . |
| 20 | For a second the boat seemed to be frozen as if in a frame of news film . |
| 21 | In Ireland , the offence was missed by the referee but spotted by the touch judge , whereas in Scotland the offence appeared to be missed by all three officials . |
| 22 | The heavy-lidded eyes were still half-open , the lips slightly parted ; in the flickering torchlight the figure seemed to be asleep . |
| 23 | Before her accident the plaintiff wanted to be a conference organiser and had intended to go into hospitality management as a career . |
| 24 | There was no speed limit on the autobahn and even at 135 m.p.h. the Jaguar seemed to be only cruising . |
| 25 | For a hundred days the issues had to be argued out in front of a High Court judge , Mr Justice Parker . |
| 26 | The Act empowered the Secretary of State to put a limit on the amount if in his opinion the amount proposed to be raised was ‘ excessive ’ according to principles he determined which were to be the same for all authorities falling within the same class . |
| 27 | In places the ice seemed to be frighteningly thin , and our boots turned it mushy as seeping salt water formed lakes in the snow-vales . |
| 28 | Every day the diary had to be filled ; an important day-to-day record of garden affairs was imperative for his writing and current Work for his publishers called for continued attention , because throughout his long life editions of the Dictionary and the Abridgement needed revision and extension . |
| 29 | In the aftermath of Kristallnacht the NL had to be treated by the authorities as more than an eccentric lunatic fringe organization . |
| 30 | Debate in the Supreme Soviet began on Sept. 17 , with a view to taking a final vote on Sept. 21 , but in the event the vote had to be abandoned for lack of a quorum , a number of deputies having apparently boycotted the session deliberately in order to force a postponement . |