Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back I can now see that some of the happenings through which I lived professionally were destined to be profound and far reaching in their impact and to become milestones of educational change . |
| 2 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 3 | It was as if he 'd known — as if he 'd somehow been alerted to the fact that she was about to cave in , to spill the beans on their bogus relationship . |
| 4 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 5 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 6 | I was just wondering , would you have imposed these very high home care charges if you 'd not been forced to by the cuts imposed by the Poll Tax capping . |
| 7 | A man who 'd once been engaged to her sister . |
| 8 | She 'd even been taken to the police station by the teacher to see if they , the police , wanted to speak to her . |
| 9 | He 'd never been used to them . |
| 10 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 11 | Clients once opened up were handed to the Senior Account Executives ( SAEs ) who would squeeze them like lemons out of their very last pennies . |
| 12 | Only 48pc of the ballot papers sent out were returned to the Electoral Reform Society and , despite a 72pc vote against independence , the law requires at least half of all parents to take part before the result can stand . |
| 13 | Initially a log file ‘ UPDATE_BASELINE.LOG ’ is opened in the specified user directory and the results of all processing performed below are output to this log file . |
| 14 | Initially a log file ‘ DIR_INTEG_CHK.LOG ’ is opened in the specified user directory and the results of all processing performed below are output to this log file . |
| 15 | There was much speculation as to whether US President Bush would attend : the fact that he did so was attributed to the persistence of William Reilly , the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 16 | They had presumably been drawn to Bologna as students and had stayed there to carve themselves out a teaching or professional career . |
| 17 | Their contents had mostly been removed to Germany . |
| 18 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |
| 19 | I wanted to improve the world , to deliver into man 's hands some of those powers which had hitherto been ascribed to a snivelling and fictitious God ! |
| 20 | An unemployment rate well in excess of what had hitherto been considered to be a stable NAIRU was failing to produce sustained reductions in the rate of inflation beyond the initial impact effect of the fall in aggregate demand . |
| 21 | At the IMF 's suggestion , the government was to consider introducing burley as a cash crop for small farmers ; production had hitherto been restricted to commercial estates . |
| 22 | The bacon and the cheese had all been transferred to the room-sized storage refrigerator behind the shop , and while her husband was out of the way Rennie Hamilton loaded all the groceries into the canvas bag and did a quick addition on the list and noted the amount on the end of the growing column in the credit book . |
| 23 | An official statement said that the functions of the departments of public works , labour and employment , local government , environment and natural resources , tourism , science and technology and social services had all been transferred to the Autonomous Regional Government . |
| 24 | When they had all been seen to , and no call had come from the complex , Dr Rafaelo summoned Shelley to follow him . |
| 25 | The subjects in Mattila 's study had all been admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction . |
| 26 | Swirling snowclouds and rain strengthened the illusion that there was no outside world anymore , and that they had all been transported to some frozen Hell . |
| 27 | Anne and Sarah , Terry and Stephen had all been promoted to the ballroom and Anne said to Sarah , ‘ I 'm trying to persuade our Joe to come . |
| 28 | Previously it had only been expected to be able to offer a 16-way system in its first go-round . |
| 29 | According to Xinhua Shultz quoted Chinese leaders as saying that missiles had only been sold to Saudi Arabia , despite reports of sales to Iran [ see pp. 35160 ; 35966 ; 36671 ] , Libya and Syria [ see p. 36180 ] . |
| 30 | For some reason Papa 's permission , which had stubbornly been denied to the lawyer 's requests all these months , had lately been given . |