Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New east-west fold mountains immediately began to be destroyed again , producing mountains of conglomerate such as the fantastic shapes of Montserrat , near Barcelona ( plate 8.1 ) which is remarkable even in a country of conglomerates like Spain . |
| 2 | A minute later she had the result , and although the scales were less accurate than those at Dr Greene 's consulting-rooms , the weight gain still seemed to be dramatic . |
| 3 | School meals and milk as well as education maintenance allowances increasingly came to be regarded as complements to a universal scheme of family allowances by its advocates rather than alternatives as had been argued , for example , at the Trades Union Congress in 1930 . |
| 4 | The desert sand sometimes seemed to be made up of pellets of dried yeast , road-workers ' grit , or face-powder . |
| 5 | Mains had been born and bred in Dunedin and , especially in the days when the Evening Star newspaper folded , the rugby matters then tended to be faithfully recorded by the Otago Daily Times and other electronic media as if Otago was sometimes being unfairly treated by the teams and newspaper writers from the north . |
| 6 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 7 | Rangers ' boss Walter yesterday refused to be drawn into any speculation about the possibility of the champions of Scotland and England meeting . |
| 8 | At the same time , serious threats to the stability of the infant democracy also had to be confronted . |
| 9 | Even the ex-scumnik , Tundrish , spoke with reasonable fluency , though in his case concepts sometimes seemed to be lacking to accompany the words which burbled from his mouth , as if as yet he possessed more words than meanings . |
| 10 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 11 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |
| 12 | Church funds also came to be used in special cases to buy the emancipation of Christian slaves , but the church did not have a general programme for the abolition of slavery . |
| 13 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 14 | The steady state theory therefore had to be abandoned . |
| 15 | In retrospect the debates on the Bill had a curious air of unreality … government spokesmen often seemed to be stating simple lessons in economic theory … |
| 16 | The nature of the urban crisis , to which town planning was addressed , also changed in that housing solutions increasingly had to be prepared in recognition of public opinion . |
| 17 | The community health services then came to be financed wholly by central government . |
| 18 | This was the very widespread feeling ( at least in Parliament : public opinion normally tended to be suspicious of ministerial projects ) that the king and his ministers had a right to the support of all loyal and patriotic subjects . |
| 19 | The ceasefire agreement nevertheless appeared to be holding in the corridors , at least up to the final week of February , and there had still been no reports of any serious breaches of the Rome agreement . |
| 20 | The growing complexity of the tasks undertaken by the schools produced a new emphasis on careers guidance and upon counselling , for both of which staffing provision now had to be made . |
| 21 | What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged . |
| 22 | His material fortunes always seemed to be less stable than those of most rich men . |
| 23 | Their interest rates also tended to be more attractive . |
| 24 | Erm by nineteen forty eight erm the Communist Party had argued that three conditions had to be there for land reform to take place and that was that how that the area had to be militarily stable , the majority of peasants erm rich peasants had to be mobilized er had to want to be demanding land reform and the Party cadres there had to be adequate in numbers and quality . |