Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Richard Dunwoody always appeared to be going the best and Baydon Star was a comfortable four-length winner , with the third horse Mailcom 30 lengths away . |
| 2 | The non-renewal of ‘ intervention ’ against Afghanistan also had to be reliable and guaranteed . |
| 3 | In Romania from the late 1970s , the ubiquitous portraits of Nicolae Ceauşescu increasingly came to be replaced or to share prominence with pictures of the couple together . |
| 4 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 5 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 6 | Mick still seemed to be looking for an excuse to return home , so I chose not to make an issue of the blunder . |
| 7 | But a cautious McHale yesterday refused to be drawn on Ford 's chances of landing a contract for next season . |
| 8 | Back in his hometown of Cork , Fergus always seemed to be floating in the wake of the other noted Cork scrum-half , Michael Bradley . |
| 9 | Floy was sleeping where he sat , his head resting on his folded arms , a look of such exhaustion on his face , that Fenella almost wished to be back on Renascia fighting Quilp and the Council and trying to plan to outwit the Dark Lodestar . |
| 10 | The Arabic , for example , is ambiguous in respect of whether it is the copy or the itself that Yusuf Bali — who held the kadilik of Bursa for a time in the 840s-wrote ; and , on the evidence of the signature alone , it seems entirely possible that at some point , perhaps during his kadilik , he made a copy of the which Molla Husrev subsequently attested to be a true copy . |
| 11 | As one friend notes : ‘ Sarah always had to be the best at everything . |
| 12 | The studios and corridors at Cardiff always seemed to be full of pretty girls . |
| 13 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 14 | What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged . |
| 15 | The puzzling thing to me is how a man like Stavanger ever came to be mixed up with him . " |
| 16 | The birth of Jesus thus came to be regarded as dividing time into two parts , because it ended the first phase of the divine purpose and initiated the second . |
| 17 | Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown both chose to be filmed — on separate days — at the Travellers ' Club in Pall Mall , while John Major opted for Downing Street once again . |
| 18 | The old monastic sites along the Twyver later came to be known as Barnwood , Court Farm , Fishers , Woods , Browns , Morins and Abbey Mills , the latter adjacent to the Cathedral , in what became known as Millers Green . |
| 19 | Walesa also claimed to be prepared to govern the country by force because legislation was not being implemented by the Sejm [ see p. 38305 ] . |
| 20 | The presence of Zimbabwean troops in Mozambique now appeared to be the principal obstacle to a ceasefire , with the MNR demanding their complete withdrawal as a precondition for any such agreement . |
| 21 | Greta Garbo even asked to be introduced to them . |
| 22 | We know that Dr Carrington ultimately asked to be allowed to die . |
| 23 | Debt is seen as Pilkington 's main difficulty with estimates of £840m at the end of March now said to be standing at £950m and likely to hit the £1bn figure . |
| 24 | Items of trade destined for southern Germany now had to be transported across the Corridor and then down the length of Germany . |
| 25 | And , blessedly , it was facts that Morse now seemed to be concentrating on as , forgetting Aldrich for the moment , he browsed once again through the questionnaires . |
| 26 | The puppet is an exhibit at a cartoon gallery in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the real Mr Heseltine just happened to be passing through . |
| 27 | The argument over housing in Derry soon came to be focused on am important issue of corporation policy — the question of extending the city boundary so as to include more land for housing and industrial development . |
| 28 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 29 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 30 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared yesterday after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |