Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opted to be taught medieval Welsh as a special subject . |
| 2 | The immediate impact of the founding fathers of what came to be called revolutionary ‘ populism ’ was minimal . |
| 3 | The relevant units of the matrix came to be called strategic business units ( SBUs ) . |
| 4 | From the creative interaction , came the new concept , which came to be called Educational Technology . |
| 5 | An inquest has failed to establish how a twenty six year old barman came to be found dead in his flat . |
| 6 | How Gemma Gibson came to be left alone in a flat in Hammersmith , London seems likely to remain unclear until she comes back . |
| 7 | In fact , it was not until the late nineteenth century that body odour came to be considered unpleasant or anti-social . |
| 8 | In course of time these petitions came to be addressed direct to the Chancellor himself . |
| 9 | The corruption of the material world through human folly led to a process of decay and death , so that the whole cosmos mourned the loss of sustaining communion and groaned and yearned to be set free . |
| 10 | Now the suspected subservience of the judiciary to the politicians seemed to be made manifest . |
| 11 | All points seemed to be given equal emphasis . |
| 12 | As expected Desert Orchid went straight into the lead , and after putting in extravagant leaps at the first two fences seemed to be set fair for an exhibition round . |
| 13 | Most of them were married , with children : they seemed to be set fair on the roads they would be travelling now for the rest of their lives . |
| 14 | In Khrushchev Remembers the misery of those telephoned summons to share Stalin 's nightly loneliness is vividly caught : the Westerns they had to watch with him , the dinners they had to endure with him , the drinking they had to keep up with him until breakfast time ( even Beria arranged to be given coloured water , until Stalin found out ) . |
| 15 | The public needed to be made aware that prostitutes were not ‘ soiled doves ’ , but were a class of women who were almost ‘ unsexed ’ and had lost all ‘ womanly feeling ’ , consorting with as many as ‘ eight to twelve different men in the same night ’ . |
| 16 | The teachers , however , decided that we needed to be kept busy over the long weekend and gave us lots of work to do . |
| 17 | And he felt , obscurely , that the terrible accident needed to be given coherent thought . |
| 18 | Given the turbulent nature of the city 's politics , even in good times , its well-being and contentment needed to be given careful attention and the city 's problems were being exacerbated by the continual and rapid growth of its population . |
| 19 | Yet it was clear from the outcome of the inquiry that about two-thirds of the topics which needed to be tackled involved people . |
| 20 | Good embalming needed to be promoted world-wide . |
| 21 | If he thought he could do that he needed to be put right . |
| 22 | 10.7.9 The rights granted or agreed to be granted pursuant to Clauses 10.7.2 to 10.7.4 and to the associated licences granted or agreed to be granted pursuant to Clause 10.7.6 shall be subject to the payment and other conditions set out hereinafter . |
| 23 | 10.7.9 The rights granted or agreed to be granted pursuant to Clauses 10.7.2 to 10.7.4 and to the associated licences granted or agreed to be granted pursuant to Clause 10.7.6 shall be subject to the payment and other conditions set out hereinafter . |
| 24 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 25 | If the firm has been dissolved to the knowledge of the plaintiff before the commencement of the action , the summons must be served upon every person within England and Wales sought to be made liable ( Ord 7 , r 13 ) . |
| 26 | Taken literally , the doctrine of non est factum applies when the person sought to be held liable has not , in fact , signed the document : see Lord Reid in Gallie v. Lee [ 1971 ] A.C. 1004 , 1015G . |
| 27 | Mattie had wanted to put a shawl over her shoulders , but she had shrugged it off and demanded to be left alone . |
| 28 | She preferred to be left alone to handle her problem with Silvia — at least until Silvia had had a chance to keep her word . |
| 29 | Kolbe , like Belling , continued to be awarded public commissions after 1945 the former with the unobjectionable mild classicism of his female nudes , the latter by reverting to his abstract beginnings . |
| 30 | Garnets continued to be rubbed smooth and set en cabochon , but advantage was taken of the way the stone could be split into sheets to use it extensively for infilling gold cloisonné work , a technique invented by Sumerian goldsmiths and brilliantly employed , using a variety of infills , in New Kingdom Egypt . |