Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 2 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 3 | As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied . |
| 4 | TRAINING Running costs had already been identified in the business plan although funds still had to be released officially from the health authority budget . |
| 5 | The hens also appeared to be very consistent in their decisions , with individual birds choosing the same nest day after day . |
| 6 | Church funds also came to be used in special cases to buy the emancipation of Christian slaves , but the church did not have a general programme for the abolition of slavery . |
| 7 | The nature of the urban crisis , to which town planning was addressed , also changed in that housing solutions increasingly had to be prepared in recognition of public opinion . |
| 8 | Policewomen sometimes had to be called from other duties in order to deal with an incident which male colleagues felt incapable of handling . |
| 9 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 10 | The last of the winter snow was melting off the steep slopes , but the flatter areas and the passes still seemed to be well covered . |
| 11 | Personal appearances always seemed to be a bone of contention . |
| 12 | Your shoes always had to be clean , brushed , you see ? |
| 13 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 14 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 15 | The question of whether the compulsory audit for small companies should be retained is one on which the views of practitioners dealing with small companies particularly deserved to be heard . |
| 16 | New east-west fold mountains immediately began to be destroyed again , producing mountains of conglomerate such as the fantastic shapes of Montserrat , near Barcelona ( plate 8.1 ) which is remarkable even in a country of conglomerates like Spain . |
| 17 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 18 | The parents invariably seemed to be laden with shopping , children , pushchairs , and all the other paraphernalia of parenthood . |
| 19 | Sites then began to be linked on the basis of the type of stone tools that they produced , and on some sites different types of stone tools were found in superimposed layers . |
| 20 | The response of the defendants then had to be looked at . |
| 21 | Mains had been born and bred in Dunedin and , especially in the days when the Evening Star newspaper folded , the rugby matters then tended to be faithfully recorded by the Otago Daily Times and other electronic media as if Otago was sometimes being unfairly treated by the teams and newspaper writers from the north . |
| 22 | The squire 's white velvet purse had weighed him down , and though he had slipped it out of his jerkin and felt it sink past his feet , coins still seemed to be clinging to his armpit . |
| 23 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 24 | His material fortunes always seemed to be less stable than those of most rich men . |
| 25 | Jacques Delors , ’ said the message — in tones which observers yesterday took to be ironical , given the sometimes bitter sparring between London and Brussels over a wide range of policies . |
| 26 | The workers later had to be treated in hospital for minor injuries and today the Royal Mail put up a £10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the attackers . |
| 27 | The passenger committee addressed its appeals to political and religious leaders throughout Europe ; though its messages now had to be shorter , since the shipping line had withdrawn free cabling facilities . |
| 28 | Joseph Bédier , the French scholar whose book published exactly a hundred years ago proved to be the inception of modern fabliau studies , inferred from the number of known authors and the number of anonymous fabliaux that only about one-eighth of the original corpus survives . |
| 29 | After the act , brokers either had to be independent , offering impartial advice on the spectrum of financial products , or tied , selling the products of one company . |
| 30 | Michael Banks actually seemed to be that man . |