Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had a few copies made to be on the safe side : solicitors , banks … you know . |
| 2 | ‘ Your Uncle Nathan has wanted her with him in Leeds ever since Christie planned to be married . |
| 3 | Neither Alan nor Paul really accept that lab is an objective measure of ability ; they simply see it as a set of rules made to be broken . |
| 4 | The incident was seen as reflecting growing white concern over government plans to return some land to blacks under proposals expected to be debated in parliament during June and July . |
| 5 | Under new proposals expected to be brought in by the IAAF , starters are likely to lose their power as the final judges of what is a false start . |
| 6 | Although my income was unchanged , money ceased to be a problem , a worry , a source of guilt and anxiety , and became a reliable friend . |
| 7 | Advance payment has to be made to the Post Office to cover the value of the postage expected to be used . |
| 8 | The process meant that adolescence ceased to be what an American scholar has called an ‘ idea ’ and became , in his words , a ‘ social fact ’ . |
| 9 | The oldest known wild barn owl lived to be nearly eighteen years old , but a male in London Zoo was recorded at twenty . |
| 10 | Where the holder of a canteen licence ceases to manage the canteen , the person who is in charge for the time being can , for a period of 14 days from the date " when the holder ceased to be manager , sell liquor as if the licence had been transferred to him . |
| 11 | If Parliament ceased to be a representative assembly , in any plausible sense of the idea , or if it proceeded to enact legislation undermining the democratic basis of our institutions , political morality might direct judicial resistance rather than obedience . |
| 12 | Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor . |
| 13 | On Nov. 6 , 1989 , the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the settlement agreed to be paid to the victims of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device . |
| 14 | Captain Don Ward asked to be readmitted after Mr Taylor was defeated at the general election , but party officials have now decided he ca n't come back . |
| 15 | Thus between 1965 and 1971 there were 56 records from the coast of birds presumed to be on passage , between 9 August and 17 December , and 32 similar spring records between 23 February and 30 April . |
| 16 | Allen Watkins agreed to be President of the club and spoke at its inaugural meeting in November 1962 ( the same day as the founding of the Findhorn Community in Scotland , such are the synchronicities of the universe ! ) . |
| 17 | Technical Division confirmed that their view was that such income ceased to be relevant income . |
| 18 | Both the proposals and the practice met the spirit of the age : new cities planned to be environmentally attractive , socially acceptable and economically viable gained support from both public opinion and commercial interests . |
| 19 | In 1945 contributory negligence ceased to be a complete defence and became grounds for apportioning liability . |
| 20 | I accept this evidence , and it follows that there is no arguable case that the moneys sought to be traced are now situated in England . |
| 21 | First , the old system of raising funds for maintaining the sultan 's war machine proved inadequate when the technology of war changed and the spahi cavalry ceased to be the indispensable core of the army . |
| 22 | In determining whether the occupier was in breach of that duty , it was expected that the plaintiff fireman would exercise those skills expected to be shown by firemen . |
| 23 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |
| 24 | Virgin invited the Clarkes to carry out an independent audit , with the assurance that any money found to be owing would be paid . |
| 25 | Our thinking on mental hospitals has been strongly influenced by studies in which researchers pretended to be mentally ill , and in a television programme broadcast last week in Britain a reporter pretended to be homeless and schizophrenic to illustrate the bleak reality of being mentally ill and homeless ( p 726 ) . |
| 26 | Windley rose to be Chief Native Commissioner of Kenya in the mid-1950s and was one of the moving spirits of re-education . |
| 27 | THE Government was accused yesterday of concocting a fudged list to gloss over the real dangers of microwave ovens found to be faulty in its own tests . |
| 28 | P and the numbers of students in the groups found to be as follows : |
| 29 | Sigue Sigue Sputnik tried to be disco . |
| 30 | In addition to that , it might interest you to know that er in excess of a further one hundred and sixty hectares of land is in our U D deposit version , U D P proposed to be released on greenfield sites on the edge of the built up areas . |