Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the months of separation from her husband , and the events those months contained , came to mark a fundamental breach in their relationship , after which there ceased to be any hope that their early married happiness could be recovered . |
| 2 | There got to be somebody there . |
| 3 | In this sense of lurking danger associated with women 's physical nature , there came to be linked with the female an idea of innate pathology . |
| 4 | Instead , there came to be a vehement emphasis on the ending of the age of miracle and revelation now that the last of the twelve apostles was dead . |
| 5 | Of course erm it 's perhaps , perhaps it 's looking slightly to the er historical future it it 's er it it was bad news in one sense because erm there came to be a view taken in Europe that wars between the great powers would be short , sharp wars . |
| 6 | In time there came to be installed six sets of two jigs , each set holding 5 tons in the base and requiring emptying twice weekly . |
| 7 | That was how there came to be at Unseen University the Octavo , greatest of all grimoires , formerly owned by the Creator of the Universe . |
| 8 | There seemed to be the fairly uncomplicated desire among the community to see all the children attend the same school , as an expression of relationships existing within the community . |
| 9 | There seemed to be people about , but I was n't sure . |
| 10 | There seemed to be no real point in arguing with her . |
| 11 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 12 | The cuts in the hand were superficial and there seemed to be nothing else wrong . |
| 13 | There seemed to be an element of ‘ never again' in the choice of a man whose whole personality and way of working are in dramatic contrast to the distant , dictatorial von Karajan , who died on 16 July . |
| 14 | There seemed to be plenty to eat , the French are masters at rustling up something to eat at very short notice . |
| 15 | There seemed to be a shortage of shell dressings . |
| 16 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 17 | Once again there seemed to be no one around the Prince and Princess with the foresight to see that the situation was becoming seriously out of control . |
| 18 | There seemed to be so little mutual interest , so little to build on . |
| 19 | There seemed to be no incompatibility between building a welfare state at home and discharging the responsibilities of a great power abroad . |
| 20 | And to all Britain 's European allies there seemed to be something incongruous about her ending conscription just as they were trying to expand their conscript forces under American pressure , in order to make the forward defence of Western Europe , which they all desired , a practicable strategy . |
| 21 | I wanted a restaurant , one simple wholesome restaurant , but there seemed to be none . |
| 22 | There seemed to be a block in her chest so that she could not breathe properly . |
| 23 | There seemed to be no place for the concept of a human soul sustained by a divine being , which exists in other religions , independently of the Christian accretion of the Man-God and suffering Saviour . |
| 24 | There seemed to be no sign of the farmer and his wife . |
| 25 | There seemed to be nothing to stop nuclear disarmament that summer , when Eisenhower arrived at Geneva and made his ‘ open skies ’ proposal as a confidence-building measure . |
| 26 | Somewhere , far away , there seemed to be a rapping at the door and someone was calling his name , over and over , louder and louder … |
| 27 | And sometimes , leaving his office , he would close his door in such a way that there seemed to be something or someone intriguing behind it , as Richard Miller noticed when he went to talk to him about banking for the contras ; it was deliberately stage-like , impressive . |
| 28 | Everyone who worked there seemed to be a Kenny . |
| 29 | Almost at once , there seemed to be a series of victories reported with which Wilson could not keep up . |
| 30 | There seemed to be part of a beam missing in the area . |