Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 3 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 4 | OF COURSE someone had to be blamed for the Grand National that never was . |
| 5 | It was long , slow , difficult work , and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools . |
| 6 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 7 | But it is so poorly executed , muddled in its narrative and just plain old-fashioned dull that the screening I went to was soon humming with critical snores . |
| 8 | Each annual cycle entailed the repetition of well-tried methods which had to be taken in common . |
| 9 | Mr Carey said : ‘ We submitted a bid which tried to be clear about the problems , and to arrive at a view of what is practicable , which disturbs MPs as little as possible , while giving the broadcasters what they want . |
| 10 | These grass-roots organizations which began to be formed immediately after February represent , in their view , the aspiration of the Russian proletariat to take command of the productive process . |
| 11 | The courts may also have been influenced by the rising premiums which had to be paid by anyone involved in the construction of buildings . |
| 12 | This was followed by the Harpers & Queen Grand Prix which proved to be another success for Markus Tecklenborg this time riding Franklin . |
| 13 | The former Young Pretender himself lived to be 67 , and on his death , in Rome on 31 January 1788 , his brother Henry began to call himself Henry IX . |
| 14 | Auditors checking Department of Energy accounts have discovered that the ministry wrote off £9.54 million spent on research which had to be cancelled following nuclear research cuts and plans for electricity privatisation . |
| 15 | Aromatic bathing and massage became a nightly ritual which had to be carried out before Owen would go to bed . |
| 16 | Perhaps more revealing is the evidence on sources and distribution of research funds which proved to be highly related . |
| 17 | Alexander had certainly done one thing for the Jews which proved to be irreversible . |
| 18 | Israeli officials estimated that this figure would increase dramatically in 1990 , an appraisal which appeared to be based partly on persistent reports of a threat from anti-Semitic groups to the safety of Jews in the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Delivering a brief lecture on self-control , Leonora began frying bacon , cutting hunks of crusty bread , grating cheese , determined to keep so occupied that there was no attention to spare for the worries which seemed to be multiplying by the minute . |
| 20 | Words which proved to be unreliable as stimuli for eliciting particular consonants were excluded , as were children who failed to respond to 15 per cent or more of the items . |
| 21 | ‘ Boots : ‘ We had a complaint from the Kilbride family and as a result of that we withdrew both album and single , as there were words which tended to be offensive to the family . ’ |
| 22 | The only subjects which appeared to be taught were massage , biology ( sex talks ) and chemistry — a lesson in which the teacher appeared to be teaching the children how to manufacture high explosives . |
| 23 | The most striking thing about these changes , however , is that although the problems which confronted the inquiries were broadly similar , the solutions which came to be offered differed in marked respects . |
| 24 | Ragusa was seen as a rival which had to be subdued and brought under Venetian control . |
| 25 | Although there was almost unanimous praise of Eliot 's poetic or sheerly musical abilities ( which in any case had their roots deep in his American experience ) , there was a certain distrust of the religious sensibility which seemed to be expressed in the sequence . |
| 26 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 27 | There it is maintained that , despite a decade of public discussion on the curriculum and the existence of widespread agreement on its main features , there were significant variations in practice which needed to be eliminated in the interests of equipping all young people ‘ with the knowledge , skills and understandings that they need for adult life and employment ’ . |
| 28 | The council was faced with half a million tax demands which had to be folded by last Tuesday . |
| 29 | Lindsey found herself shaking hands with a tall , fair-haired young man and wondered if she had imagined the tension which seemed to be sparking between the two . |
| 30 | Keynes and the economists in the Cabinet Office worked on estimating the size of the gap which remained to be closed , and the 1941 budget incorporated their approach . |