Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A claim for money generally had to be substantiated by evidence of careful planning , identification of areas of shortfall , prioritising and cost-effective exercises . |
| 2 | Unsurprisingly , the treatment of roads here had to be different . |
| 3 | Debt is seen as Pilkington 's main difficulty with estimates of £840m at the end of March now said to be standing at £950m and likely to hit the £1bn figure . |
| 4 | The birth of Jesus thus came to be regarded as dividing time into two parts , because it ended the first phase of the divine purpose and initiated the second . |
| 5 | During the postwar period the idea of democracy also came to be expressed in new terms — differing profoundly from the restrictive meaning which Schumpeter , Weber and others had imparted to it through its association with the idea of citizenship . |
| 6 | The balance of convenience still had to be shown by the plaintiff to be in his favour but , as Wedderburn says , the threat of irreparable harm to the employer 's ‘ property ’ in his business interests could not be out-weighed by the defendant union . |
| 7 | A pattern of trouble quickly came to be associated with the street gangs . |
| 8 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 9 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared yesterday after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 10 | Further north the impact of urbanization again began to be seen as a positive stimulus to growth , leading Champion ( 1987 ) to conclude that the most outstanding aspect of population change there was the strong upward shift recorded by the main conurbation areas , with the metropolitan counties of the West Midlands , Merseyside , Greater Manchester , Tyne and Wear , and Strathclyde registering the strongest improvements . |
| 11 | This talented designer from the south of Italy often appeared to be designing for those wishing to make an entrance at the Cannes film festival rather than turn heads at Maxim 's . |
| 12 | Though we shall have much more to say on the issues that allegedly divide quantitative and qualitative methods in later chapters , the kind of choice just alluded to is neither urgent nor necessary . |
| 13 | As a fully-masculinized professional field , the study of English increasingly came to be organized according to hierarchical administration , specialization , and approved modes of scholarship . |
| 14 | An interesting sidelight on battlefront conditions came from his remarks that the Peshmerga brought in for attention mainly tended to be suffering from wounds to their limbs from weapons such as Kalashnikovs , since those who sustained head or body injuries generally failed to get as far as a field hospital . |
| 15 | The non-renewal of ‘ intervention ’ against Afghanistan also had to be reliable and guaranteed . |
| 16 | The puzzling thing to me is how a man like Stavanger ever came to be mixed up with him . " |
| 17 | Forces levied for service overseas had to be fitted out with uniforms and conveyed to ports of embarkation . |
| 18 | Interest waned in the afternoon , but with conditions still said to be ‘ squeezy , ’ the Treasury 11¾p.c. 2003–07 was able to hold on to a rise of £516 to £117⅝ on a yield of 9.13p.c . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The argument over housing in Derry soon came to be focused on am important issue of corporation policy — the question of extending the city boundary so as to include more land for housing and industrial development . |
| 21 | For one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century was the fact that some molecules in space actually appeared to be similar to those that make up amino acids . |
| 22 | The coffee in France always seemed to be superior to the coffee in England , and he had made it just right . |
| 23 | The natural right to liberty also began to be combined , though much less regularly than in the 1820s , with the conviction from liberal political economy of the greater efficiency and wealth-creating properties of free labour . |
| 24 | Lancaster 's expedition to Brittany also had to be postponed , probably because of the need to recover Berwick , which had fallen to the Scots in October 1355 . |
| 25 | The studios and corridors at Cardiff always seemed to be full of pretty girls . |
| 26 | By chance there happened to be a 12 year-old MkII Boogie combo in the Guitarist studio with just such a loop . |