Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the North of England , nearly half of firms visited were found to be illegally underpaying workers . |
| 2 | She 'd been flattered to be asked , of course . |
| 3 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 4 | She 'd been wanting to be my best friend for ages . |
| 5 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 6 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 7 | She 'd been required to be beautiful and talented and independent , but she had n't wanted to be any of those things . |
| 8 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 9 | I can assure Mr Faris that the issues he raises were looked at and that the disclosures adopted were considered to be the most appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 10 | Two groups implicated were said to be the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA — an alliance formed in 1989 which grouped the opposition parties , including the Umma party , with the SPLA ) and a hitherto unknown group , Ana al-Sudan ( " I am Sudan " ) . |
| 11 | Some of the individuals they trapped were found to be wearing rings already . |
| 12 | For an instance where the medical expenses claimed were held to be unreasonably high , see Roberts v Roberts ( 1960 ) The Times , 11 March ; for cases where very high medical expenses were held to have been reasonably incurred , see Winkworth v Hubbard [ 1960 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 150 and Hamp v Sisters of St Joseph 's Mount Carmel Convent School Bar Library Transcript No 305B of 1973 ( Kemp & Kemp D2-011 and D2-100 ( Sweet & Maxwell ) , The Quantum of Damages , 2 , para 5 – 011 ) . |
| 13 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 14 | Its sign consisted of a portrait of a woman 's head , styled in what she guessed was intended to be Tudor fashion . |
| 15 | The majority of single brooches examined were found to be more abraded on the top left corner than the top right . |
| 16 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 17 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 18 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 19 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 20 | I thought every breath that cat took was going to be her last . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , there have been some very vigorous objections made by local residents , and that is particularly why the application that preceded this one was refused planning permission because er the objections they made were considered to be well founded by the Planning Committee and supported many of their views . |
| 22 | The , the last one that I bought was going to be easy , but oh . |
| 23 | Work had been planned to be carried out during the possession on a Saturday night to carry out some pointing |
| 24 | If the election had been declared to be void ( as Panama and Liberia asserted ) , the Committee 's actions in the intervening period would have been of no legal effect . |
| 25 | He and Jennifer had been engaged to be married , then when she had been diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis he had left her and gone to Australia to work . |
| 26 | Most noticeable were the ‘ naughty ’ children , the ones who had been sent to be told off , or who in some way had become ‘ cases ’ . |
| 27 | This is because certain newspapers thoughtlessly mentioned that some pet cats in California had been discovered to be suffering from the AIDS virus . |
| 28 | It was decided that Joan should telephone Alexander Atkins at a number which he had given to Derek and which had been discovered to be that of the police station at Dysart . |
| 29 | Three weeks ago , we looked at God 's call to Jeremiah ; it taught us about God , and about the prophet who had been called to be God 's spokesman to His people Israel . |
| 30 | Justice must be seen to be done , however , and when it had been seen to be done , the miscreants were cheered by a crowd assembled outside the court . |