Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [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 | It was long , slow , difficult work , and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He smiled again , but Theda could not respond to an overture she felt to be false . |
| 8 | The houses were neat and not unpleasing in design , though to Winnie 's eyes they appeared to be built far too close together , and the low wire fences gave no privacy . |
| 9 | It was difficult to tell the passage of time , but when Blake opened his eyes they appeared to be within reach of the rising smoke . |
| 10 | In 1372 stipendiaries , and rectors and vicars with benefices worth 10 marks ( or £3 13/ 4d ) , were to come as archers with bows and arrows ; those with livings worth more than £10 had to attend ‘ well armed ’ ; if their living was valued at £20 they had to be accompanied by two archers , if £40 by two armed men and two archers , if £100 by five armed men and six archers . |
| 11 | In 1977 , however , it was decided that inter-city ( as well as freight ) rail services should not in principle be subsidized ( Department of Transport 1977 : chs. 6 , 7 ) , although in practice they continued to be . |
| 12 | As a general rule they appeared to be slowish , considering most of them were large animals , but there seems to be a considerable variation between species of greatly differing body sizes . |
| 13 | I mean the schools they went to were n't er were n't really what I was used to you know . |
| 14 | Last Thursday central tv showed animal rescue workers at the farm taking away 35 goats suffering from emaciation. 6 horses were in such a bad condition they had to be shot . |
| 15 | But the new-look candidates he pointed to are virtual unknowns . |
| 16 | These optimistic perspectives were quickly abandoned by Khrushchev 's successors , and under Brezhnev it began to be claimed that the USSR had achieved no more than the construction of a ‘ developed socialist society ’ , a new and quite distinct stage of Soviet development whose further evolution into full communism would be a matter for the fairly distant future . |
| 17 | AN Edinburgh man was so drunk when police stopped his car he had to be kept overnight before he could be charged , a court heard yesterday . |
| 18 | The more time I spent with him , the stranger he seemed to be . |
| 19 | As soon as the group became too large to be controlled by a hyper-active Healy rushing around the country to quell the first signs of dissidence it had to be smashed . |
| 20 | These crises he showed to be caused by a general lack of planning ( ‘ anarchy ’ ) of the capitalist methods of production , by the impossibility of attaining correct proportions between the various elements of the process of reproduction under capitalism , especially between production and consumption . |
| 21 | These crises he showed to be caused by a general lack of planning ( anarchy ) of the capitalist methods of production , by the impossibility of attaining correct proportions between elements of the process of reproduction under capitalism , especially between production and consumption … he showed the cause to be the incapability of capitalism to maintain an equilibrium among the various elements of production . |
| 22 | In other words he wished to be God himself , and not a creature . |
| 23 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
| 24 | In the strange light it appeared to be slightly tilted , with one edge standing proud of the slabs around it . |
| 25 | As was so often the case , he sucked up nourishment from books he happened to be reading , finding parallels in the lives of characters to his own dilemmas and solutions . |
| 26 | The Russian leader took a tough line with a President he felt to be inexperienced . |
| 27 | it 's not the illusion it promised to be the answer was here all the time . |
| 28 | Within months he determined to be ordained , believing that the Congregationalists most closely represented the standpoint and theology of the Confessing Church . |
| 29 | Within months he determined to be ordained , believing that the Congregationalists most closely represented the standpoint and theology of the Confessing Church . |
| 30 | Sometimes I told Eva I wanted to be a photographer or an actor , or perhaps a journalist , preferably a foreign correspondent in a war zone , Cambodia or Belfast . |