Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was when you moved to was n't it ? |
| 2 | With polls showing a clear majority of voters in favour of preserving the right to abortion , the issue promised to be particularly difficult for the Republican Party which was deeply divided upon the abortion question . |
| 3 | Last month another group of rebels , the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front , promised to be equally generous with the port of Massawa : it said it would allow food to be moved from there to the government-held town of Asmara . |
| 4 | We realised straight away that the Landrover was a good choice of vehicle because even the main roads were pretty rough , and we intended spending most of our time in the north of the island where road and track conditions promised to be even worse . |
| 5 | ‘ Simon de Montfort ’ could be the first lecture on the Friday morning , to be followed by ‘ The Battle of Evesham ’ , which promised to be quite enlightening . |
| 6 | At least one application , fault diagnosis , promised to be highly cost effective . |
| 7 | PIROS is essentially a simplified version of PARIS II designed to be much more general and thus more readily suited for use over a variety of locations . |
| 8 | This week Unisys previews a far-flung range of ‘ Pentium-ready ’ machines , currently using 80486s but designed to be seamlessly upgraded to 60MHz Pentiums in the third quarter . |
| 9 | This week Unisys will preview a far-flung range of ‘ Pentium-ready ’ machines , currently running 80486s but designed to be seamlessly upgraded to 60MHz Pentiums in the third quarter . |
| 10 | OLIVER rolled his eyes back , lit a cigarette and said that the very phrase common sense was a contradiction in terms , and if Man — at which point he pretended to be extremely embarrassed and correct himself to Man-or-Woman — if Man-or-Woman had relied upon common sense over the previous millennia we 'd all still be living in mud huts and eating frightful food and listening to Del Shannon records . |
| 11 | Bismarck was ‘ unwell ’ and the French emissary was reduced to seeking an interview with First Secretary Thile , who pretended to be totally ignorant of the whole business , which was a flagrant lie , and who said : ‘ In any case there are quite a few Princes … which one is it ? ’ |
| 12 | I pretended to be as puzzled as everyone else was about the nature of my ‘ mysterious illness ’ . |
| 13 | I pretended to be still unconscious . ’ |
| 14 | I pretended to be very foreign , ashamed to hear my country so misrepresented by an Englishman . |
| 15 | More often Hanka Zborowska switched the lights off and they pretended to be out so that Modigliani would not come up and ask for an advance on the next day 's work . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Barlow was a regular member of Everton 's squad last season and his pace caused problems to Premier League defences , with Wimbledon reported to be particularly impressed by his talent . |
| 18 | But in practice he found himself able to control the Residents only by appointing men he deemed to be sufficiently compliant , an expedient to which he resorted when Temple retired prematurely from the service in 1917 . |
| 19 | In fact , they asked for the practices and procedures of all the agencies involved to be thoroughly scrutinised . |
| 20 | BMW claims that this far more sophisticated ( and , no doubt , expensive ) rear suspension finally lays to rest the spectre of lift-off oversteer which has so bedevilled the 3-series over the years — albeit to a much lesser degree with the outgoing model which , in Sport form at least , we found to be well balanced and responsive rather than inherently tail happy . |
| 21 | Looking to our right we recognised the Cottages with the road in front of them close to the ditch ; also our Professor 's stable , coach-house and dog kennels , with the back entrance from the road to his garden … we were soon in King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] which we found to be well studded with trees on each side … to our left the Country residence of Counsellor Agar [ builder of Agar 's Town ] … we turned to the right and first took notice of the front of our Professor 's house with its large garden protected from the pathway and road by a brick wall . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most interesting example of this is to be found in the Manor House garden , where a large section was unearthed and found to be well preserved . |
| 23 | We were wrong about there being a Canberra Watergate , with Australian politicians found to be corruptly involved with mining companies — still , it was a nice try . |
| 24 | When I first began the work that I am doing now , I decided to keep an open mind about the topic ; but , as time has progressed , I have been able to record details of fact , time and place given to me by my patients which have later been checked and confirmed and found to be wholly accurate . |
| 25 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 26 | Part of these suburbs , if this is an applicable term , was subsequently excavated by Miss Mahany and Mr Steven Taylor and found to be largely industrial . |
| 27 | He lists the ‘ inconveniences ’ he found to be most common , some of which are directly attributable to picturesque design . |
| 28 | This DNA was sequenced and found to be most similar to that from Rhodococcus , Streptomyces , and Arthrobacter genera . |
| 29 | In the first instance , her comment that ‘ ethnic and sexual minorities were pandered to ’ I found to be blatantly racist and most offensive . |
| 30 | Whose was this voice which Molly found to be both bossy and patronizing ? |