Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although my income was unchanged , money ceased to be a problem , a worry , a source of guilt and anxiety , and became a reliable friend . |
| 2 | Advance payment has to be made to the Post Office to cover the value of the postage expected to be used . |
| 3 | The process meant that adolescence ceased to be what an American scholar has called an ‘ idea ’ and became , in his words , a ‘ social fact ’ . |
| 4 | The oldest known wild barn owl lived to be nearly eighteen years old , but a male in London Zoo was recorded at twenty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Technical Division confirmed that their view was that such income ceased to be relevant income . |
| 10 | In 1945 contributory negligence ceased to be a complete defence and became grounds for apportioning liability . |
| 11 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |
| 12 | Virgin invited the Clarkes to carry out an independent audit , with the assurance that any money found to be owing would be paid . |
| 13 | Designer Nina Campbell has licensed the manufacture and distribution of her wallpaper and fabric designs to quoted group Osborne and Little in a cash deal expected to be worth £200,000 |
| 14 | Designer Nina Campbell has licensed the manufacture and distribution of her wallpaper and fabric designs to quoted group Osborne and Little in a cash deal expected to be worth £200,000 |
| 15 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |
| 16 | The government on Sept. 21 launched an economic recovery plan , anticipating a full-scale structural adjustment programme expected to be introduced in 1991 . |
| 17 | In front was a tiny apron of garden , which the street light revealed to be a shambles of children 's toys and discarded garments . |
| 18 | 1.1 " the Landlord " includes the successors in title of the Landlord to the Site and any other person who is at any time entitled to the reversion immediately expectant on the term agreed to be granted by this agreement |
| 19 | One good thing that their patronage led to was the Pont Napoleon , which spans the torrent just outside Saint-Sauveur to the south and is a lavish piece of bridgework , a single arch some 200 feet above the water at its highest point . |
| 20 | In 487 BC the archonship ceased to be an elected position , chosen by the aristocracy , and was henceforth filled by lot , while in 461 BC the council of the Areopagus , composed of the ex-archons , was deprived of its powers . |
| 21 | By the 1960s fraud became to be recognised as a major criminal problem , but the fraud squads were hampered by small staffing levels , and their access to an unofficial nucleus of specialist fraud lawyers was slow to develop . |
| 22 | With an uncertainty expected to be less than 10–7 in a value of about 137.035 it should be possible to test directly quantum electrodynamics , or QED , the quantum theory of electromagnetism . |
| 23 | The defendant applied to be joined as a party to those proceedings and sought a stay of the possession order . |
| 24 | ( In the US , HarperCollins paid a figure reported to be between £14m and £18m for rights outside the UK in As the Crow Flies , the next novel and a volume of short stories . ) |
| 25 | Any risk has now been virtually eliminated by testing donors for HIV infection and blood found to be infected is never used . |
| 26 | She and her father had visited many places of historical interest , including several castles , but the small castle perched on its rock promised to be special . |
| 27 | The South Korean Defence Ministry announced plans to buy F/A-18 Hornet jet fighter aircraft from the USA in a deal reported to be worth US$4,200 million . |
| 28 | He is lined up to join relegated Plymouth managed by Peter Shilton in a deal reported to be worth £275,000 . |
| 29 | As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure made in compliance with ’ the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court . |
| 30 | As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure made in compliance with ’ the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court . |