Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spokesman also stressed that anyone receiving what he or she considered to be a suspect package should exercise extreme caution and contact the police immediately . |
| 2 | And I grew to be a man . |
| 3 | I was real good at sports and I wanted to be a professional football player . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , and you proved to be a warm and funny companion , gentle and sweet , and I was intrigued to discover why someone like you would pursue a man . |
| 5 | And she happened to be a Christian . |
| 6 | A variety of opinions were aired on the matter by the politicians present , and there seemed to be a definite acknowledgement that at least some of those present held shares in Anglo United , the mother company of IBM . |
| 7 | Then they swept past with a great roar of engines , and there seemed to be a voice shouting from a loudspeaker . |
| 8 | Socialism , however , had been repudiated at the polls even more decisively than Protection , and there seemed to be a stronger case for an anti-socialist coalition composed of the Conservative and Liberal Parties than for a Free Trade one . |
| 9 | ‘ There was this huge explosion and glass everywhere and there seemed to be an age of silence before pandemonium broke loose . |
| 10 | The fascination was , however , accompanied by fear , and there seemed to be an inner conflict between his Christian beliefs and the sorcery of witchcraft . |
| 11 | And there had to be a reason for a coup . |
| 12 | Cost , efficiency and local accountability would be considered in preparing the proposed reforms and there had to be a trade-off between the two , Lang asserted . |
| 13 | A number of cases have dealt with the valuation of fittings attached to or used in connection with land , whether freehold or leasehold , and associated products and machinery , whether in farms , public houses or factories : see : ( 1 ) for a farming example , Leeds v Burrows ( 1810 ) 12 East 1 , where the value of the outgoing tenant 's hay and a " spike-roll " had to be assessed ; ( 2 ) for a public house , Smith v Peters ( 1875 ) 2O LR Eq 511 , where the household furniture , fixtures and other effects were to be valued ; and ( 3 ) for a factory , Jones ( M ) v Jones ( R R ) [ 1971 ] 1 WLR 840 , where there was a small company carrying on a family business of manufacturing and retailing woollen goods , and there needed to be a valuation of the premises and the machinery . |
| 14 | Although there was a facility for central storage of information , localised filing systems were also in operation , and there appeared to be a large amount of duplication . |
| 15 | Both regions are famous for seafood , which we both love , and there appeared to be a reasonable number of airfields dotted about , ranging from little fields up in the mountains to Porto , one of Portugal 's only three Customs airports — the others are Lisbon and Faro . |
| 16 | Particularly significant was the fact that despite the Nordics ' supposed love of liberty the more authoritarian qualities were emphasized , and there appeared to be a shift from traditional nineteenth-century assumptions of Anglo-Saxon authority over colonial peoples to an elitist anti-democratic control of ‘ Nordics ’ over ‘ Mediterraneans ’ within British society . |
| 17 | Lightning flashed in the reception windows behind them , and it seemed to be a reflection of his own brimming anger . |
| 18 | She had never been to this exalted place before and it seemed to be a place of dreams . |
| 19 | Well no , seems to be quite , I was busy yesterday and , and it seemed to be a really busy week , but a couple of appointments fell down , but I 've got quite a busy night tonight . |
| 20 | It was the Mataura that had brought them from Scotland , and it had to be a good omen . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , with all my lack of experience , the chairman of the division unhesitatingly gave me the responsibility for leading the mission , and it proved to be a turning point in my career . |
| 22 | trickled down , Jack could see a boy with oriental features and what seemed to be a rain-soaked face . |
| 23 | There was a further link with editors , not such a happy one , for false reports and rumours were constantly appearing , and what seemed to be a campaign of vilification of the police . |
| 24 | She was wearing schoolboy shorts herself , and what seemed to be an eleven-year-old 's prep-school cricket blazer . |
| 25 | After all , they were susceptible to stretch and shrinkage and what looked to be a perfect alignment might just as easily evaporate using more precise calculations . |
| 26 | The excessive leniency of the law was indicted frequently enough , especially in the wake of the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 and what appeared to be a monster ‘ crime wave ’ among the very young . |
| 27 | He wore a pair of grey shoes , baggy white trousers and what appeared to be a red tuxedo . |
| 28 | The rest of him , though , ran true to form : an old school blazer , jeans so faded they could appear in a Levi ad any day now , and what appeared to be a genuine official Born To Run tour T-shirt . |
| 29 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 30 | But you had to be an amateur . |