Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 2 | OF COURSE someone had to be blamed for the Grand National that never was . |
| 3 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 4 | Auditors checking Department of Energy accounts have discovered that the ministry wrote off £9.54 million spent on research which had to be cancelled following nuclear research cuts and plans for electricity privatisation . |
| 5 | Aromatic bathing and massage became a nightly ritual which had to be carried out before Owen would go to bed . |
| 6 | Israeli officials estimated that this figure would increase dramatically in 1990 , an appraisal which appeared to be based partly on persistent reports of a threat from anti-Semitic groups to the safety of Jews in the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Although there was almost unanimous praise of Eliot 's poetic or sheerly musical abilities ( which in any case had their roots deep in his American experience ) , there was a certain distrust of the religious sensibility which seemed to be expressed in the sequence . |
| 8 | There it is maintained that , despite a decade of public discussion on the curriculum and the existence of widespread agreement on its main features , there were significant variations in practice which needed to be eliminated in the interests of equipping all young people ‘ with the knowledge , skills and understandings that they need for adult life and employment ’ . |
| 9 | Lindsey found herself shaking hands with a tall , fair-haired young man and wondered if she had imagined the tension which seemed to be sparking between the two . |
| 10 | Keynes and the economists in the Cabinet Office worked on estimating the size of the gap which remained to be closed , and the 1941 budget incorporated their approach . |
| 11 | They were then invited to a Departmental meeting , also attended by Access Unit staff , to discuss the report and any action which needed to be taken . |
| 12 | But not to have mentioned the subject at all , to leave a void which demanded to be filled — that , it seemed to me , would have been Hamlet without the prince ( or , more accurately , Queen Mother ) . |
| 13 | There was , however , one perfectly clear and simple condition which had to be fulfilled if any rational deduction was to be drawn as to the effect of abolition . |
| 14 | The same subjects who showed an advantage for the right ear with pairs of digits showed a significant superiority for the left ear when the stimuli consisted of snatches of melody which had to be identified by means of a multiple-choice response method . |
| 15 | A priest who happened to be visiting my mother volunteered to stay on one of these occasions , but the screams drove him out . |
| 16 | The final entrance was that of a huddled figure who needed to be carried into the room . |
| 17 | He said ‘ Come ’ as Greeks prod their donkeys ; as if , it later struck me , I was a potential employee who had to be shown briefly round the works . |
| 18 | Last Thursday central tv showed animal rescue workers at the farm taking away 35 goats suffering from emaciation. 6 horses were in such a bad condition they had to be shot . |
| 19 | AN Edinburgh man was so drunk when police stopped his car he had to be kept overnight before he could be charged , a court heard yesterday . |
| 20 | As soon as the group became too large to be controlled by a hyper-active Healy rushing around the country to quell the first signs of dissidence it had to be smashed . |
| 21 | A girl in her late twenties , a fat girl with a mop of hair which refused to be confined within her hat . |
| 22 | Strictly business it might be , but even in the tightest schedule there were small gaps — moments that could foster an ongoing intimacy or become fraught with an antagonism which seemed to be growing between them . |
| 23 | Salina arrived at the clinic with a grossly swollen foot which had to be lanced on the spot . |
| 24 | Desiring Vitor was a pitfall which had to be avoided . |
| 25 | As Bishop Thomas Brinton of Rochester said when preaching at the time of the Black Prince 's death in the summer of 1376 , it was part of a knight 's duty to help his king in time of war ; failure to do so meant loss of the right to be called a knight , which was both a sign of honour and a mark of responsibility which had to be lived up to . |
| 26 | In early October , as Mrs Thatcher — flanked by her Cabinet — received a nine-minute standing ovation at the close of a successful party conference , few expected any challenge to her in the leadership election which had to be held within 28 days of the start of the new parliamentary session , due to open on 7 November . |
| 27 | Two days earlier his puissance horse , Leonardo , had cracked a bone in his off-fore fetlock which had to be put in plaster . |
| 28 | In those circumstances , the judge held that the provisions in the legislation of 1985 did not apply in the present case which continued to be governed by the Act of 1957 . |
| 29 | At the other they were an opportunity , perhaps the only opportunity , of breaking with institutions and attitudes which had led to disaster ; an opportunity which had to be grasped because such radical change could only be imposed from outside . |
| 30 | He was aware of the controversial scene which had to be cut from the trailer and laughed at the problems it caused in the UK . |