Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 2 | The principles which I have just stated had come to be broadly accepted , at the level of the Court of Appeal , at least by the early part of this century . |
| 3 | During the course of the seventeenth century , despite the reaction against puritanism which followed the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 , this point of view became increasingly influential , so that by the end of the century it had come to be generally accepted . |
| 4 | Trotsky set himself the dangerous task of explaining how not only the state but also the Party had come to be excessively bureaucratized . |
| 5 | This latter was in fact the fee farm of the borough , which had come to be permanently assigned to the earls of Salisbury , whose titles and possessions had been conferred on Margaret Pole , daughter of the duke of Clarence . |
| 6 | The ILP and BSP had formed the United Socialist Council in October 1916 when the Labour Party had appeared to be irrevocably committed to the war . |
| 7 | Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops . |
| 8 | He had wanted to be more noticed as a child . |
| 9 | She had been out with her boy friend on one occasion and her parents had tried to be more accepting of her relationship with him . |