Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 2 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 3 | The stand and materials used were similar to those used at the Steam Engine Rally . |
| 4 | The instructions and scale used were identical to those used for Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 5 | The areas visited were comparable to Leicestershire and parts of Derbyshire . |
| 6 | Here , everyone who entered was free to be Dreamer . |
| 7 | Quite apart from the scale of any observed effects , and of rather more theoretical importance , was the issue of whether any biochemical change we found was unique to , say , imprinting in the young chick , so that memory for other types of behaviour in older birds or in other species would involve quite different processes . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 9 | She 'd been used to hopping around and flapping about wherever she pleased , so it came as a bit of a shock to find her freedom of movement restricted by the jesses . |
| 10 | It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to . |
| 11 | He could tell she 'd been used to ordering people about at one time . |
| 12 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 13 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 14 | The participants were willing and the setting was ideal ; they 'd been close to it often enough , so what was happening now ? |
| 15 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 16 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 17 | They 'd been good to Mam , though , sending her money when they could . |
| 18 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |
| 19 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 20 | You see , I 'd been accustomed to the guided progression of the last comfortable years at school . |
| 21 | I 'd been lucky to book one of the two wheelchair spaces with adjacent seats for my family for last Saturday 's final night of the spectacular Robin of Sherwood musical . |
| 22 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 23 | ‘ T' Brownies laid yum acrost t' river one night long ago so'as an old farmwife who 'd been kind to yum could get over to her daughter 's house on t' other side without goin' miles a-down t' river t' bridge . ’ |
| 24 | I did n't understand what ‘ interest ’ was but she 'd been kind to me and I thought she would be kind to others and help them . |
| 25 | He 'd been happy to be a spectator while she fucked him , but suddenly he reached up , and pulled her down on to him . |
| 26 | All the staff have remained the same , but the managers I interviewed are new to this particular store . |
| 27 | He was especially troubled by pain in his kidneys , which he believed was due to kidney stones ‘ occasioned by unsuitable diet in my youth ’ . |
| 28 | The earlier student strike , in April , was set off by the dismissal of law teacher Dominic Mngomezulu , which students believed was due to his union activities . |
| 29 | Some of the criticism which its recommendations attracted was due to the perception that it concentrated too much on medical and nursing issues . |
| 30 | Whether the attention it received was due to its classic looks or the fast drying coating of mud which reached on to the roof was difficult to judge , though I suspect , it was the butch overcoat which caught so many eyes . |