Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kisekka , who was appointed Vice-President , was in his mid-70s and reported to be in poor health ; in February 1988 he had been given three deputies to ease his workload . |
| 2 | While on the subject of meat , we can tell you that the competition to find the best-made sausages in the UK gets under way this Sunday with the defending champion reported to be in sizzling form . |
| 3 | One which I found to be of great value in my business life , until the advent of decimalisation , was learnt in Standard Four , in the usual sing-song fashion . |
| 4 | The disqualification stage in this bears some resemblance to denunciation , which we found to be of limited value as a justification of punishment . |
| 5 | Although the incidence of gastric cancer is falling in all countries for which reliable data are available there are still certain groups of subjects believed to be at increased risk of developing this disease . |
| 6 | A revelation which William James experienced when taking nitrous oxide took the form of doggerel , which he genuinely believed to be of enormous significance while he was under the influence of the drug : Higamous Hogamous , women are monogamous , Hogamous higamous , men are polygamous . |
| 7 | Six newspapers were banned at the end of September under a presidential decree empowering the Interior Ministry to close for six months any publication judged to be against national interests [ see p. 39072 ] . |
| 8 | He quickly came to be on close terms both with Edward himself , in whose Scottish wars he regularly served , and with his heir . |
| 9 | That was how there came to be at Unseen University the Octavo , greatest of all grimoires , formerly owned by the Creator of the Universe . |
| 10 | These concepts came to be of prime importance with the introduction of non-abelian groups into topology , specifically via the fundamental group of a topological space . |
| 11 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 12 | He seemed to be on good terms with the people behind the bar . |
| 13 | She was still taking medication after her breast cancer operation but she seemed to be on top form and very bubbly and full of plans for the future . |
| 14 | Perhaps that was why every cell of her normally controlled body seemed to be on red alert in Rune Christensen 's presence . |
| 15 | Heim again presented her view that the accused was faking , and added the comment that from her observations of his behaviour in the witness box he seemed to be of average intelligence . |
| 16 | Attacked by its critics as a sort of institutional megalomania in which a defeat of free institutions anywhere was a defeat everywhere it was a supercharged containment policy in which , in defence of the perimeter , all points seemed to be of equal importance . |
| 17 | This question , said Mrs B , seemed to be of particular significance , but she had felt unable to make any sense of it . |
| 18 | All the services for mental health seemed to be at full stretch already , he said . |
| 19 | The cellular source of soluble ICAM-1 ( sICAM-1 ) in samples of healthy blood donors seemed to be from mononuclear cells , because sICAM-1 was only detectable in cell culture supernatants of lymphoid cell lines and peripteral blood mononuclear cell cultures . |
| 20 | The United States seemed to be in great shape . |
| 21 | I looked at Oliver and he seemed to be in genuine distress . |
| 22 | Holyhead mayor Tom Ross added : ‘ He was very happy and seemed to be in good spirits . |
| 23 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 24 | ‘ Well … well , then — ’ her only recourse seemed to be in stiff formality ‘ — I wish you Godspeed , my lord , and … and success in your … that is … ’ |
| 25 | It seemed to be in permanent decline , possibly for some of the same reasons as the Liberals after 1918 . |
| 26 | In comparison with London , everything seemed to be in miniature . |
| 27 | In many cases , Senior Management , in Branches , put in place the operational arrangements for Lunch-time Opening , but happened to be at sumptuous ‘ development ’ lunches , when these arrangements were being implemented . |
| 28 | I suppose no other curate happened to be in poor health at that time . ’ |
| 29 | Hundreds of people were arrested and imprisoned , or summarily executed , because their ideas or sympathies were considered " wrong " by those who happened to be in local control . |
| 30 | For the first time , he claimed to be of German descent : |