Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or ceased to be subjective and judgemental and just simply as my mother would say , ‘ Be taken completely out of myself . ’ |
| 2 | 31 firms either were not or ceased to be eligible for registration . |
| 3 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 4 | The governor , fearing for his life , drew his sword and attacked Paulus , but his aim was either too feeble or misdirected to be effective , so he plunged it into his own body . |
| 5 | These categories include people who have been refused leave to enter Britain , refused entry clearance , deported , or considered to be involved in abuse or attempted abuse of the immigration laws , Elton told the House of Lords . |
| 6 | Section 2 of the 1920 Act provides that communicating with a foreign agent is evidence of obtaining or attempting to obtain information calculated or intended to be useful to an enemy contrary to section 1 of the Act . |
| 7 | She looked like a small animal that expected to be surprised at any moment . |
| 8 | I heard Alec saying , in a voice that tried to be light and urgent at the same time , ‘ We 're ready , sir , ’ and I heard the reply : ‘ Well I 'm not . |
| 9 | It was constructed in such a way that the information will not break down into stylization or gesture nor found to be synthetic — or false . |
| 10 | I once voluntarily threw away something that promised to be special , and very , very wonderful , and do n't intend to do so again . |
| 11 | When ( the HoD ) was writing the self-appraisal we were n't that involved to be honest . |
| 12 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had produced fusion in their test-tube because when they passed electrical current through it , more heat was produced than they could account for , and in amounts extending over hundreds of hours that seemed to be far in excess of what is possible in a normal chemical reaction . |
| 13 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 14 | Shipton would have been saddened to see the old rotting tins and abandoned jerrycans that seemed to be typical of all military movement in this area . |
| 15 | Finding it impossible to break into movies after the production slump of the 1940s , before television offered an alternative route to aspiring filmmakers , people like Anderson , Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz worked instead within sponsored documentaries , while writing about the sort of passionate , personal filmmaking that seemed to be possible in France , Italy , even India , but not in Britain . |
| 16 | While Robyn was hesitating , the office began to fill up with men wearing drab suits and dull ties and with the pasty complexions that seemed to be common to everybody who worked in the factory . |
| 17 | During the 1960s , he demonstrated that dolphins could produce sounds in air that seemed to be direct and relevant imitations of human speech patterns . |
| 18 | In the long term the papacy had shown itself a " Western " power to be reckoned with in diplomatic and monarchical terms — a power , what is more , that claimed to be able to decide between states on their moral actions , ratione peccati . |
| 19 | James waved a hand that strove to be nonchalant , encompassing the various paintings and sculptures which surrounded him and which , as it happened , featured an extraordinary number of nubile and semi-naked ladies in a recumbent posture . |
| 20 | In Wagon Mound the kind of damage that needed to be foreseeable was fire damage . |
| 21 | ‘ The thing is , ’ he murmured , sending her a smile that managed to be wicked and appealing all at the same time , ‘ I 'm so used to trusting Simon completely that I forgot you did n't know him at all . ’ |
| 22 | I assumed , in my usual mechanistic way that that meant that everything that looked like being cancerous had been cut out . |
| 23 | There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless , and persevering , and being turned down that was different from simply being jobless . |
| 24 | The tone of the publication was moderate and thoughtful ; a true reflection of the Heathite aspiration towards social policies that aimed to be humane , practical and vigorous . |
| 25 | Malengin , however , did not answer , but offered Cleo and Dauntless two stained cracked mugs filled with something that appeared to be heated pond water . |
| 26 | Such arguments as these suggest that price subsidies and in-kind transfers do not possess quite the overwhelming advantage for the stimulation of consumption of goods that appeared to be evident above . |
| 27 | Hailed as the weird and wonderful show that dared to be different , the media could n't lavish enough praise on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks when it debuted on American television in April . |
| 28 | I say ‘ can ’ because most of us have bought something that proved to be marvellous . |
| 29 | ‘ After aluminium blocked filters at a treatment plant at Penwhirn Reservoir near Stranraer , ’ wrote the Sunday Times , ‘ the authority decided not to tell its customers and then issued safety advice that proved to be incorrect and inadequate . ’ |
| 30 | But even that proved to be hard . |