Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objective henceforward became not to be a loser by using the benefits of a bourgeois education to tight the cause of all those losers in the world who , like his father , had been smashed by the bourgeois system itself . |
| 2 | Then , while the right hand wrote on , it conjured up the pack of cigarettes once again , conjured one out , and conjured a flame out of a butane lighter it suddenly turned out to be holding . |
| 3 | He merely knew enough to be careful ( though not careful enough ) about the words coming out under his fist . |
| 4 | What we as a family were unanimous about was that he adopted no pose of being the distinguished writer , and even gave the impression that he much preferred not to be treated as such . |
| 5 | Much had yet to be done in the study of nucleic acid chemistry . |
| 6 | By now , many hundreds of man-hours had been put into the Packard Merlin and much had still to be done . |
| 7 | So much had still to be said . |
| 8 | My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’ |
| 9 | To perform the court 's order could require the doctor to act in a manner which he or she genuinely believed not to be in the patient 's best interests ; to fail to treat the child as ordered would amount to a contempt of court . |
| 10 | ‘ My uncle 's stories sounded unlikely , but they always turned out to be true . |
| 11 | To use the argument from error without that assumption we would have to point to cases when we mistakenly took there to be another mind present . |
| 12 | We always understood there to be 14 and in his book ‘ I Bought A Mountain ’ , Thomas Firbank defines the walk as covering ‘ the fourteen peaks in Wales which exceed three thousand feet in height . |
| 13 | You did not have to be there in person in order to kill by poison ; in fact , you probably tried not to be . |
| 14 | A dramatic profits rise by home shopping group Betterware sent their shares soaring initially before they later came back to be 5p ahead at 265p . |
| 15 | Those programmes still being funded by government also came increasingly to be dealt with under the customer-contractor principle . |
| 16 | Two girls , who both turned out to be called Fiona , were still unpacking the stock . |
| 17 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 18 | As France made her preparations for war , it was relatively simple for her to make an alliance with Austria against Prussia and it also turned out to be surprisingly easy to draw Russia into this alliance . |
| 19 | It also turned out to be Lynch 's last world championship fight . |
| 20 | The guide caused a bit of stir in Lakeland circles with the author 's comments on Paul Ross 's route Prodigal Son ( comments which later turned out to be misplaced ) . |
| 21 | The afternoon in question was spent in a painful attempt ( wholly unsuccessful ) to keep up with a young woman who later turned out to be a champion rider with a European reputation . |
| 22 | Though believed to be fourth dynasty when it was shipped , it later turned out to be twenty-sixth dynasty : the portions of mummified body inside might , or equally might not , be those of Mycerinus . |
| 23 | Despite the effects of the drink he paused to listen at another of the meetings , heard a testimony from a young man who later turned out to be Ella 's brother , and was converted . |
| 24 | In view of problems experienced previously when consent was granted for a development on a site later discovered not to be in the ownership of the applicant , the Parish Council would like to draw your attention to the fact that the boundary of this site is currently in dispute with the neighbouring landowners ( i.e. the R C Church Diocesan Surveyors ) . |
| 25 | It also tended primarily to be Anglican and only secondarily reformed . |
| 26 | He turned and looked back into the room and towards what she dimly made out to be a number of people . |
| 27 | He really seemed not to be quite on the ball . ’ |
| 28 | Although now believed not to be the gene responsible for FAP , MCC still clearly represents a common site for mutagenesis , and may therefore be another colorectal tumour suppressor gene . |
| 29 | Having come this great distance to intercede for her father , she now seemed instead to be constantly arguing with his shade . |
| 30 | During busier days they brought companies to the unlisted securities market but required owners to sell only 15 p.c. of their shares to outsiders — who often turned out to be long-term holders lined up in advance by the issue 's brokers . |