Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 2 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 3 | Half a love surely had to be better than none at all ? |
| 4 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |
| 5 | ‘ We have begun to lose our confidence in our institutions , the traditions and bodies that constitute a very large part of the national culture — especially in the monarchy which a year ago appeared to be one of the unassailable certainties of British life . ’ |
| 6 | An official report by the National Human Rights Commission accused Morán of ignoring repeated requests from the local federal police to stop his soldiers firing at the agents who were trying to intercept an aircraft later discovered to be carrying some 360 kg of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico . |
| 7 | As ever when they met , they exchanged warm , friendly smiles , which supposed an equality both knew to be spurious , and intimated chumminess which belied the invariable gravity of their discussions and business together . |