Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the Beveridge report an average unemployment rate of 8 ½%; was mentioned , but as optimism grew figures as low as 3% came to be used . |
| 3 | Their assumption that this could be ignored , and the data assumed to be objective representations of crime and criminality , was to prove to be one of their greatest weaknesses , as we shall see in the next chapter . |
| 4 | Equipped with floats , these dependable aircraft proved to be the lifeblood of the community . |
| 5 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 6 | The pilot of a Fuji aircraft at about 500 feet agl on finals , who believed he was number four to land , saw a Cherokee type aircraft approaching him on a collision course from his 10 o'clock ; to him the aircraft appeared to be level or slightly high and under power , and his passenger saw the Cherokee 's landing light flash . |
| 7 | Requirements for aircraft had to be dealt with by the Air Officer Commanding Western Desert , and all David Stirling 's communications had to be routed via the LRDG , who ended up as piggy in the middle . |
| 8 | Parts of the aircraft were missing when Harris purchased 133722 , and over the following two years , the tail assembly , engine , engine mount , cowlings , and many other portions of the aircraft had to be located , acquired , modified or made . |
| 9 | These data had to be estimated from census ED information . |
| 10 | It seems that they were side-tracked by Kammerer 's Lamarckian claims and forced into the position of assuming that , since the theory was wrong , the data had to be wrong too , and this left them with fraud as the only possible explanation . |
| 11 | All the input data had to be available , and it had to be input in a pre-determined sequence . |
| 12 | When this happened , the raw data had to be emended . |
| 13 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 14 | It was performance that drew applause from a press corps relieved to be approaching the end of at least the first election campaign this year , and brought smiles to previously glum ministerial faces . |
| 15 | The fish needed to be good hardy species , compatible with one another and a pleasing range of colours . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the fish appeared to be in rather a sorry state . |
| 17 | The term of service was reduced by his successors and in 1762 it was made voluntary , but the great bulk of the officer corps continued to be staffed by hereditary noblemen . |
| 18 | Both Corps had to be pulled out of the line , exhausted , on March 12th ; by which time the XVIIIth alone had lost 10,309 men and 295 officers . |
| 19 | At Pershore in Worcestershire a JCB driver was stranded after his digger got stuck in deep water.He had to be rescued by firemen . |
| 20 | John installed a filter and later added a waterfall , but a rapid drop in the water level one day spelt trouble and somewhere in the region of 180 assorted fish had to be found a new home . |
| 21 | The eel had to be prepared for her journey by staff at the centre who gradually acclimatised her in their newly built quarantine unit . |
| 22 | If an extra 5% had to be paid for short selling shares , most of the underpricings disappeared . |
| 23 | As my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre ( Mr. Mans ) and for Thurrock have said , people expected to be protected by central Government , but we have been told by the Labour party that there will be no limit whatsoever on spending . |
| 24 | People fought to be first on , children were lifted through windows ; the scene was frighteningly chaotic . |
| 25 | To me , he said in a quavering voice , ‘ When I was a young man , people lived to be fifty-five or sixty . |
| 26 | Only a minority of people lived to be grandparents . |
| 27 | After , even if people tried to be nice , it was cold everywhere , and dark . |
| 28 | People found to be HIV-positive are denied work . |
| 29 | The only common characteristic of all the schools visited was the willingness of the people interviewed to be involved in the research . |
| 30 | Polls suggested that the key election issue for voters , however , was the 8,000 or so homeless people estimated to be sleeping rough within the city . |