Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although more tension may be applied to the lower posterior wall of the reservoir than to the anterior wall during construction , one would expect to show greater differences in scores for these sites in relatively recently constructed reservoirs compared with those that had been in situ for several years , and the pathological changes would also be expected to be more like those of mucosal ischaemia . |
| 2 | Nobody understood , either , how it had come to be there at all . |
| 3 | ‘ The forest plantation is quite young and the ditch was ploughed in 1987 , so the body has obviously come to be there after that . ’ |
| 4 | Among the guests the Mamounia while the Shah was settling in were Henry , Count of Paris , the pretender to the French crown , who was finishing his memoirs there ; the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole , then a member of the coalition government of Rhodesia , but soon , like the Shah , to be swept away by revolution and Hassans friend , former King Simeon of Bulgaria , who was reported to be there on some business . |
| 5 | Quite simply , the peaks and troughs can be evened out by forecasting the number that can be permitted to be away in each grade at any given week which is a simple mathematical exercise . |
| 6 | I , I have n't actually got to be in at any time except I did say I 'd be in at half nine . |
| 7 | Oesophageal transit measured by scintigraphic techniques has similarly been shown to be slower in this condition . |
| 8 | Oesophageal transit and acid clearance have also been shown to be slower in these patients . |
| 9 | This ‘ may be known to be so by any man 's experience , that will but examine his own mind ’ . |
| 10 | Being so conditioned to being together at all times , even after some Girls moved out they returned every day to play cards . |
| 11 | The sword struck a boulder concealed in the heather concealed , a watcher might have considered , so artfully that a moment before it had not appeared to be there at all . |
| 12 | Appropriately enough , in this strange world of not-so-covert agents and hackneyed dramatic devices , it was a secret document that gave the game away : a document that was never meant to be there at all . |