Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the strange light it appeared to be slightly tilted , with one edge standing proud of the slabs around it . |
| 4 | it 's not the illusion it promised to be the answer was here all the time . |
| 5 | The immediate object was to get to the lode ( Fleming 's Vein it came to be called ) , estimated to be some 25 fathoms ahead . |
| 6 | Yet we knew that if a programme was going to work it had to be ‘ user friendly ’ — we had had enough of diet and exercise books written by doctors and self-proclaimed experts . |
| 7 | But if he had nothing to do with the kidnapping of that girl it seemed to be too much of a coincidence that he should have appeared just then . |
| 8 | what you 're implying is that how that they had a radical policy in mind but because of the war it had to be moderated but I , somehow I tend to believe the reverse , that how that they may have continued the moderate policy but was forced into it because of circumstances to , forced to erm into radicalizing their policies . |
| 9 | Even though the foal was hauled to safety it had to be put down shortly afterwards when a bad gash in one leg became infected . |
| 10 | Even though the foal was hauled to safety it had to be put down shortly afterwards when a bad gash in one leg became infected . |
| 11 | On closer examination it proved to be a medieval first-floor hall house , with solar , garderobe , seventeenth-century overflooring , and to have spent part of its time as a farmhouse . |
| 12 | I started a stage snore and I thought that together we must drown any other noise he could make , but when he began to use his saw it seemed to be the only noise in the carriage . |
| 13 | All of a sudden it seemed to be the wrong time and the wrong way to go about it , what with it being the day of the old man 's funeral and everything … |
| 14 | At the same time the Labour Party took the opportunity of outlining the procedure it wished to be adopted in the selection of a Labour Prime Minister under comparable conditions . |
| 15 | Er when you did get a suit it had to be kept for Sunday , for going to chapel you see , and if you were going to have a new suit it would always be at anniversary time , you did n't get one every anniversary . |
| 16 | In the event it proved to be the wrong decision . |
| 17 | He had an endearing habit at 10 o'clock of calling on each facet of his customers , starting with the lowest rank of airman , to " piss off " ; and worked through the ranks until he got to Kings ( and on this occasion it happened to be King Peter of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 18 | However , if more than that was needed and the family began to have more serious problems , then on the whole it seemed to be better to bring in an outside agency unconnected to the placement process . |
| 19 | It was n't the kind of thing that had ever been heard on Detroit radio before , but for a while it seemed to be going okay . |
| 20 | In the preceding year 28 December fell on a Sunday and as the coronation took place on that day of the week it had to be repeated on another day ! |
| 21 | When they cut away the paper at the back of the frame it proved to be a Böcklin , but a print cut from a magazine , the original being in Budapest . |
| 22 | The train it had to be : my train ; my carriage . |
| 23 | This was not really convenient as space was tied-up on the dressing floors , whilst below ground it had to be handled so that it was not inadvertently intermixed with other material . |
| 24 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 25 | Even with one hand gripping the marble banister it proved to be far from easy , and when the stairs were safely negotiated Luce breathed a sigh of relief . |
| 26 | In fact this was by no means the shatteringly important quarrel it appeared to be in hindsight to people living and writing under the shadow of Becket 's murder . |
| 27 | Her proximity had overbalanced him ; physically and in the spirit it had to be ‘ she and no other ’ . |
| 28 | But when one of the squad emerged from the shop with the remains of the rucksack , and told police that he was unhappy about the cause of the fire , a full scale evacuation of the city centre was started in case it proved to be an incendiary device and in case others had been planted . |
| 29 | In recent weeks the cartel had used seven kidnapped journalists and a diplomat 's sister it claimed to be holding as bargaining counters to force the government into negotiations . |
| 30 | And for Mum it had to be Tom or Englebert . |