Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another group , ‘ Gentling Brünnhildes ’ , aggressive , masculine women , had strong competitive feelings towards men , but at another level desperately wanted to be overpowered and mastered by Brünnhilde , it will be remembered , was eventually mastered by Siegfried . |
| 2 | First , this study simply had to be controlled in scope . |
| 3 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 4 | This group also had to be made up on strict equal-opportunities lines , with the requisite number of minorities and women . |
| 5 | This method therefore had to be cancelled as the time the carrier could remain at Greenock was severely limited . |
| 6 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 7 | This call just had to be an act of purest derision , a flaunting of how well this enemy had foretold Jaq 's actions — or even was psychically alert to Jaq 's whereabouts . |
| 8 | Despite this innovation there continued to be considerable public disquiet . |
| 9 | During the election campaign the party had asserted that the advanced welfare state was safe in its hands , but this promise quickly appeared to be a less than certain guarantee of the continuation of welfare programmes which in some cases had been in effect since the 1930s . |
| 10 | This couple certainly appeared to be full of faith , which was encouraging as it was the first home that I visited . |
| 11 | This goal too appeared to be self-defeating in the Nikol'skaia volost' . |
| 12 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 13 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 14 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 15 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 16 | That self now needed to be discovered — but where ? |
| 17 | Each regiment still tended to be regarded as almost the private property of its colonel and until 1753 was usually known by his name . |
| 18 | They are separated by major fault zones , in most cases now demonstrated to be thrusts , which have on average an east-west trend . |
| 19 | Both sides indeed seemed to be pleading for German support against the other . |