Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BMW claims that this far more sophisticated ( and , no doubt , expensive ) rear suspension finally lays to rest the spectre of lift-off oversteer which has so bedevilled the 3-series over the years — albeit to a much lesser degree with the outgoing model which , in Sport form at least , we found to be well balanced and responsive rather than inherently tail happy . |
| 2 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 3 | Given the growth of international competition and the emergence of the multi- national enterprise , such limited control came to be widely recognised as inadequate , particularly as with the approach of 1992 the number of cross-border mergers was increasing . |
| 4 | Before long there were many activities for which time came to be increasingly regarded as valuable . |
| 5 | Those that advocated social or political change in a reasoned and intelligent manner seemed to be either ignored or ended up defeated and disillusioned by the whole sorry mess . |
| 6 | This seemed to be further corroborated when we were invited to join the second phase of a research project being undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research and the Further Education Unit . |
| 7 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |
| 8 | Instead there were no beggars on the city streets of either Pesth or Kinsai , and no one in any of the towns and villages through which he had passed seemed to be poorly clothed or underfed . |
| 9 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 10 | The trail , though clinging like a ribbon to the steep sides of the canyon , proved to be well sculpted and led without incident to the valley floor . |
| 11 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 12 | It appeared to be heavily used and had a large , sandy carpark that simply begged to be searched . |
| 13 | She knelt down on the cushion , placed her ungloved hands together , closed her eyes and appeared to be either thinking or sleeping in an upright kneeling position . |
| 14 | Whilst noting the developments in human rights since the unbanning of political organizations in February 1990 , Amnesty expressed its concern at the number of killings in which security force members appeared to be directly implicated but where the security forces failed to take appropriate action . |
| 15 | The host club 's third goal was somewhat controversial , as the Scots appeared to be wrongly penalised when the umpire awarded Berlin a penalty corner . |
| 16 | They continued to be closely guarded and severely restricted in their movements . |
| 17 | The level of noise on the shop-floor was very high and the quality of hearing had to be carefully assessed and monitored and , if necessary , steps taken to prevent further deterioration . |
| 18 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 19 | ‘ I think President Premadasa read the signals correctly , and realised that if people 's needs were to be met , media had to be both liberated and liberalised . |
| 20 | The trade deficit had to be either financed or reduced : the former course meant courting the international financial institutions with their implicit or explicit power of veto over domestic policy , while the latter meant either fiscal deflation in excess of the deflation of demand already induced by the OPEC financial surplus ( in paradoxical combination with cost-inflation ) or setting up stringent import controls . |
| 21 | Blackwells in Reading set up an ‘ Under £10 ’ table , which had to be constantly replenished and which the group may well replicate in other shops next year . |
| 22 | At the same time , milk yields had to be substantially increased and sustainable and the scene was set for a revolution in breeding and for the development of most of the modern breeds . |
| 23 | Because of the constraints of space , the number of guests had to be severely limited but during the afternoon more visitors were invited to look around the Lodge and see for themselves this latest jewel in the Association 's welfare crown . |
| 24 | Under the agreement five-member panels would review decisions made by either country to impose import duties on goods which they considered to be unfairly subsidized or dumped . |