Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 2 | That commercial television then proved to be popular is beside the point . |
| 3 | New land-working agreements frequently had to be negotiated , and enclosure into small fields for peasant cultivation may have replaced open land and the strip system of some villages on the coastal plain . |
| 4 | After that , if differences in income per worker in different enterprises still seemed to be excessive , it would be reasonable to introduce a progressive tax on enterprise income within each republic or province , based on the level of the enterprise 's net income per worker . |
| 5 | Whereas the Treaty of Rome and the Single European Act both appeared to be at least chiefly concerned with trade and economic cooperation , the Treaty on European Union is involved with almost every policy with which a national government could concern itself . |
| 6 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 7 | Yet the yawning emptiness out here upon the vast deck already seemed to be swallowing any sense of connexion with the interior of the fortress-monastery … |
| 8 | No Roman Catholic movement of the left had appeared to help Rome in its political struggles at a time when the suffrage was spreading ; in spite of a few ‘ Christian socialists ’ , Roman Catholicism still seemed to be tied to social and political conservatism . |
| 9 | Personal appearances always seemed to be a bone of contention . |
| 10 | But a cautious McHale yesterday refused to be drawn on Ford 's chances of landing a contract for next season . |
| 11 | Really serious attention now had to be given to the reconstruction or replacement of the Company 's rolling stock and although the ex-Croydon cars were in better condition than their own , it was decided to rebuild the J type cars on the Sutton route and not to commission any more ex-Croydon cars for service . |
| 12 | Appropriate clothes also had to be found . |
| 13 | Annual budgets still had to be checked by the Ministry and Treasury , and continued to be pruned . |
| 14 | That pretty girl just had to be Gaynor Summer 's sister , and , sure enough , that was where she went . |
| 15 | Refrigeration was in its infancy , so that perishable goods just had to be sold which meant that prices were gradually reduced in the hour or so before closing time . |
| 16 | The burden of war was thus more manageable , but large sums still had to be raised by parliamentary grants and the commons were seldom disposed to make such grants unconditionally . |
| 17 | The first , in Baltimore in 1980 , when the Cup was in its infancy and a satisfactory formula still had to be worked out , was an almost unmittigated disaster . |
| 18 | The previously unthinkable prospect of a non-academic career now began to be thought — with fear , dismay and bewilderment on Robyn 's part . |
| 19 | Pilkington disliked the impression conveyed that these friendly personalities just happened to be recommending products as though they were disinterested parties . |
| 20 | Disturbance to the day-to-day activities therefore had to be kept to a minimum . |
| 21 | The initial conditions also came to be modified eventually , with the addition of new planets . |
| 22 | The notion of town planning and its profession of technically qualified practitioners inevitably stood to be beneficiaries in this context . |
| 23 | Dietary intake of diary products was lower ( p<0.02 ) and fat intake also tended to be less ( p=0.09 ) in the patients . |
| 24 | Full employment gradually came to be thought of as a fact of life whilst percentage rates of growth of this or that economic measure became the punctuation of political rhetoric . |
| 25 | Fat Paul still seemed to be reeling at this development . |
| 26 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc will launch its K2 series of multiprocessor Microsoft Corp Windows NT systems co-designed with Tricord Systems Inc on May 3 in the US — May 4 in the UK ( UX No 420 ) : Tricord has already launched the things as its 5000 series in the US running a variety of operating systems — though Sequent has an exclusive deal on NT versions ; as well as the low-end K2 boxes , Sequent will also be launching a series of high-end , Pentium-ready systems also said to be NT-capable . |
| 27 | Items of trade destined for southern Germany now had to be transported across the Corridor and then down the length of Germany . |
| 28 | Pedestrians were the main hazard , but rickshaws , curio sellers , money-changers and the odd sacred cow also had to be manoeuvred around . |
| 29 | The question of whether the compulsory audit for small companies should be retained is one on which the views of practitioners dealing with small companies particularly deserved to be heard . |
| 30 | Her worst was when she got in the way ; backstage timing sometimes had to be precise , and it was no place for someone who was still taking in the sights . |