Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process has become so refined that we even had a section called ‘ Oenology ’ , though it must be admitted that this eventually had to be re-named to ‘ Study of Wine . ’ |
| 2 | This only began to be reversed as a trend after 1975 . |
| 3 | In 1762 he even secured a royal edict which compelled the clergy to contribute a fifth of their income to charitable purposes , though this soon had to be withdrawn . |
| 4 | This always had to be done by another agency so that British government became ‘ a rich Byzantine structure ’ of boards , local authorities , commissions and joint committees . |
| 5 | The undoubted economic recovery after 1933 also appeared to be coming to a halt in a new recession which began in the summer of 1937 . |
| 6 | The consequences of this often seemed to be a neglect of Europe , but the impression was misleading . |
| 7 | This often seemed to be taken to excess and getting drunk or ‘ blind drunk ’ was described as common practice , at least within their world as they revealed it to us . |
| 8 | What was needed was that intention to make a legal act should be expressed ; this then had to be taken to be charged on the heir as trustee , since in that way the principle of benefit could be satisfied . |
| 9 | This however had to be accepted as a fact and due attention paid to it . |
| 10 | This certainly appeared to be the case ; those whose score on our cognitive impairment scale ( the OBS scale ) was between eight and ten cost more in community services than those whose score was between two and seven ( see Table 6.2 ) . |
| 11 | The Waveney continued her search until 1900 , when an attempt was made to winch the two survivors into a helicopter , but this too had to be abandoned because of the extreme conditions . |
| 12 | This too had to be curbed on cost grounds , along with plans for two monolithic block-like structures , within the control room , which would darken to black as the ship landed , and fill with light as it took off . |
| 13 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 14 | The DoT told the House of Commons transport committee that nearly 1300 joints had been replaced between 1975 and 1982 and a further 750 still had to be replaced . |
| 15 | He turned , bewildered , and saw a big man with spiky grey hair , a tanned skin and eyes that later always seemed to be the colour of phlegm . |
| 16 | Whereas the maths syllabus was organised around concepts ( e.g. shape , plane , enlargement , volume ) , the humanities syllabus , for instance , dealt with topics ( e.g. health and fitness , history and archaeology , ancient Greek , local studies ) and these also tended to be listed under the ‘ concept ’ heading . |
| 17 | These also tended to be " open " primaries , where any registered voter could participate , as opposed to " closed " contests where only registered party members were entitle to vote , another factor thought to favour Duke . |
| 18 | And that also had to be done by hand . |
| 19 | Years later , even , when 617 just happened to be in my Canberra Wing at Binbrook after the war , oddly enough both Nos 617 and 9 Squadrons found themselves together in my four-squadron wing . |
| 20 | The roar of a meteorite blazing through the air in Quatermass II still had to be accomplished by scratching a thumb-nail across a microphone mesh . |
| 21 | The general election of 1992 also had to be called by a Conservative government at a time of unfavourable economic circumstances because of the approaching legal time-limit before which an election had to be called . |
| 22 | I indeed er in the er companies act in nineteen eighty nine the minister himself er argued that for any system to be effective there had to be a distance between regulators and regulations but the only people who have done any inquiry into B C C I which is the Institute er it itself is the mafia regulating the mafia auditors trying to regulate er the the auditors . |
| 23 | It was I , the me , that now needed to be diagnosed . |
| 24 | Quite apart from this , the legislation required that the gathering of evidence by other means would be unlikely to succeed , or would be considerably more difficult ; a warrant would apply to only one suspect , so that there were no general warrants ; the warrants would remain in force for three months and thereafter had to be renewed ; and the person concerned generally had to be notified as soon as possible after the surveillance ended that he or she had been the target of such surveillance . |
| 25 | In the secondary modern schools , though in principle it was pursued as a primary goal , as it was in the few technical schools that survived , yet because of the increasing aspiration within the schools themselves that their pupils should be seen to do as well as grammar school pupils , the practical gradually came to be despised there as well . |
| 26 | Lenders in general often appeared to be financing the tempting rates offered to first-time buyers at the expense of existing borrowers . |
| 27 | In a survey of dreams reported by university students , they found that dream images which were highly vivid also tended to be " surprising " , and at the centre of the visual field . |
| 28 | Now it was apparently neither here nor there that the two even happened to be present . |
| 29 | Deer , which were hunted by the rich therefore came to be associated with affluence ; and the peony , which was cultivated in the gardens of the nobility , was thus seen to symbolize the rank , wealth and well-being that accompanied this station in life . |
| 30 | That certainly appeared to be true as Tinning nudged ahead of Payne , Palmer and Haeggman . |