Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 2 | She 'd been required to be beautiful and talented and independent , but she had n't wanted to be any of those things . |
| 3 | If the election had been declared to be void ( as Panama and Liberia asserted ) , the Committee 's actions in the intervening period would have been of no legal effect . |
| 4 | He and Jennifer had been engaged to be married , then when she had been diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis he had left her and gone to Australia to work . |
| 5 | In his young days unmarried men had been assumed to be wicked dogs , gay bachelors . |
| 6 | Gryschenko had been known to be unhappy about embarking on the first leg of the race . |
| 7 | It seems that the rolled-up canvas , which had lain on a basement floor for sixty years in the Nice house , had been thought to be unused . |
| 8 | Two of three decorative diamond shapes on the faces of his Merit PL irons had been found to be illegal by the United States Golf Association but their faxed message to the manufacturers arrived after Nelson had begun his round . |
| 9 | Because he had already lost some weight and had been found to be anaemic the dietician was consulted to ensure that he received adequate nourishment . |
| 10 | As lack of discipline at home had been found to be important to later sociopathy , she recommended improved discipline at school for such at-risk youngsters : a more vigorous role in preventing truancy , supervision for completion of assignments , controlled use of leisure time and so on . |
| 11 | Modems in Computer Room had been found to be incompatible with our telephone system and should be disposed of . |
| 12 | In particular , politicians sought to examine why so many volunteers to fight had been found to be unfit to do so . |
| 13 | Actress June Brown , 65 , had been rumoured to be unhappy with some storylines and upset when market stall holder Pete Beale played by Peter Dean was axed . |
| 14 | All possible nonamer peptides with proline at position 2 were synthesized for CSP , LSA-1 and SHEBA ; where a sequence had been shown to be polymorphic variant peptides , for example cp10 , cp16–18 , were also synthesized . |
| 15 | The confounding factors were patients ' characteristics that had been shown to be predictive of increased perinatal risk . |
| 16 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 17 | Both these denials had been shown to be false . |
| 18 | Today we might say that it had been shown to be different from itself . |
| 19 | The patient returned to eating only foods that had been shown to be safe . |
| 20 | In his book , On the Trail of Terror , David Leppard wrote later that , privately , Hayes believed the Lockerbie bomb had been a dual device , triggered by a barometric switch and then running on a timer , but that not enough of it had been recovered to be sure . |
| 21 | He had been told to be exact . |
| 22 | Some of the social and economic assumptions on which Beveridge and other pioneers had based their welfare schemes had been proved to be over-optimistic . |
| 23 | Here — ’ And he handed her the lamp , which had been designed to be portable . |
| 24 | A scheduled meeting of the Conference on Jan. 31 was postponed following the unavailability of Irish ministers , who had been required to be present in the Dáil ( lower house of the Irish Parliament ) to secure the passage of their government 's budget . |