Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was , in fact , found to be so and the results were interpreted to show that short term memory decayed after about 20 seconds . |
| 2 | In Britain , the Transport Act 1968 introduced subsidies for loss-making passenger services which the minister judged to be socially or economically desirable . |
| 3 | She sipped absently , so desperate to remember who she was and how she came to be here that the mug was empty before she realised it . |
| 4 | As such , they were the precursors of the Saxons , who came to be more and more associated with attacks on the coasts of northern Gaul and Britain . |
| 5 | In gaol he refused to try to understand how he came to be there and during the years of his imprisonment spent much time sobbing in his cell as a desperately hurt child sobs . |
| 6 | Strachan : Showed some lovely touches but seemed to be just that bit too slow . |
| 7 | Deane seemed to be nowhere when the telling crosses came in . |
| 8 | Lucy 's relatives seemed to be uniformly and conveniently distributed throughout the south-western peninsula . |
| 9 | They never seemed to be near where Gloria and Dot were . |
| 10 | Kelly seemed to be everywhere and got the praise of all the commentators , as did Whelan . |
| 11 | In the end it seemed to be more or less common ground that the judge did not formally state his reasons when he made his order , although in the course of argument he had indicated that he had sympathy for the debtor 's argument based on section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 12 | I could not believe that such an outburst of violence could happen in Fontanellato , where everybody , including those who belonged to the party , seemed to be more or less on good terms with one another , but when I arrived home I begged my father to be careful and to avoid discussions with anybody except the doctor . |
| 13 | There seemed to be more and more everyday . |
| 14 | As time went by , she seemed to be more and more different . |
| 15 | It was difficult to see her through the dazzling spurts of fire ; she seemed to be less and less there . |
| 16 | ‘ It happened to be there so I potted it . ’ |
| 17 | Just happened to be there and he , he , he was telling the meeting that when he 's canvassing , going door to door , he , he knows as soon as walking up the drive whether there 's someone in or not . |
| 18 | Young Paul happened to be home when she mentioned it , and looked up over his spectacles . |
| 19 | On July 21 the Finance Minister , Nasir Abdel allah al Rawdan indicated that the government did not intend to borrow the entire sum authorized by the decree ; he expected the actual amount borrowed to be less than $24,000 million . |
| 20 | The rebellion was over at a cost he claimed to be more than £4,000 in fines and legal fees . |
| 21 | Both the unity of the Cabinet and its independence of the king began to be unmistakably and effectively asserted only after the end of this period , during the long premiership of the younger William Pitt ( 1783–1801 ) . |
| 22 | In fact it was only in the 1940s that principles of gradation began to be rigidly and systematically applied to beginners ' courses in limited vocabularies . |
| 23 | It was within this ideological framework which was always present but as outlined above became to be more and more publicly articulated by the Tories prior to 1979 that the operations of the justice system in England and Wales need to be considered . |
| 24 | With an uncertainty expected to be less than 10–7 in a value of about 137.035 it should be possible to test directly quantum electrodynamics , or QED , the quantum theory of electromagnetism . |
| 25 | Today she looked like being later than ever and the excuse was beginning to look a bit thin . |
| 26 | Section 4(1) ( c ) provides : ( c ) ( i ) that the only supply of the product to another by the person proceeded against was otherwise than in the course of a business of that person 's ; and ( c ) ( ii ) that section 2(2) above does not apply to that person or applies to him by virtue of things done otherwise than with a view to profit … |
| 27 | And after that rather cryptic last sentence , he was silent , which meant that Belinda chose to be so as well . |
| 28 | Finally , government and unions entered into a Faustian agreement known as the ‘ social contract ’ ( 1974 ) , in which the government proved to be well and truly cast in the principal role . |
| 29 | The combination of duties proved to be more than one man could perform , and Weir , in short , neglected his duties in the regality court and in fact spent most of his time in Rutherglen , where his family resided . |
| 30 | But the massive invasion of France in 1544 proved to be more than twice as expensive as the government had estimated : it cost nearly £650,000 instead of the predicted £250,000 . |