Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , blessedly , it was facts that Morse now seemed to be concentrating on as , forgetting Aldrich for the moment , he browsed once again through the questionnaires . |
| 2 | Although Churchill sometimes appeared to be unhappy about it , planning for the peace was widely accepted as a legitimate political task during the war . |
| 3 | TRAINING Running costs had already been identified in the business plan although funds still had to be released officially from the health authority budget . |
| 4 | Floy was sleeping where he sat , his head resting on his folded arms , a look of such exhaustion on his face , that Fenella almost wished to be back on Renascia fighting Quilp and the Council and trying to plan to outwit the Dark Lodestar . |
| 5 | The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal . |
| 6 | Now that report usually had to be filed 48 hours after he went down . |
| 7 | All Girls under twenty-one had to get written permission from their parents and although fathers still tended to be against the idea , no one appeared to have committed forgery . |
| 8 | On the resumption Kilkeel were awarded three consecutive penalty corners but they were unable to add to their slender advantage , and the direct long ball tactic from Service meant that Kilkeel always had to be alert to the breakaway . |
| 9 | If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough . |
| 10 | Germany 's supplies of rye , barley and oats usually had to be augmented from outside . |
| 11 | The Wealden clays supported a richer , more diverse agriculture than the Hastings Beds formation , where impoverished sandy soils combined with abrupt contours largely restricted farming to stock keeping , and grain often had to be brought from elsewhere . |
| 12 | Though officials sometimes mentioned that poor peasants owned cattle , ownership was often concentrated and cattle usually had to be hired . |
| 13 | Debate on the Church went on through half the time available for discussion in the entire session , and revisions still had to be brought back for approval . |
| 14 | But women always seemed to be in the majority and the proprietor and his wife , both of whom spoke excellent English and German , could be seen at every hour of the day advising parties of determined-looking women in sensible shoes how to get to St Peter 's or the Piazza Venezia or the English church , or which were the best shops to buy presents and souvenirs to take home . |
| 15 | But after the formation of the first Labour government in 1924 matters potentially became much more serious , since socialists then came to be vested with the power of legislation . |