Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Bundy , a jobbing gardener , was about five feet in height but built like a tank whilst Mr. Cool , a clerk at Style and Gerrish , the main drapers in Salisbury , was a very quiet man who rose to be head of the firm 's Accounts Department . |
| 2 | ‘ But she told me she tried to be understanding of a life that perhaps she might have to lead one day , ’ said her friend . |
| 3 | There were a number of attacks during January by right-wing extremist groups , which police believed to be part of a protest campaign against CODESA . |
| 4 | Science has confirmed that the universe is filled with a constant noise , believed to be overtones of the ‘ Big Bang ’ echoing through the vastness of space , according to the materialists . |
| 5 | In the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Law Merchant , apart from maritime law and prize law ( see p. 40 ) , was absorbed into the Common Law ; thus the law of such matters as Bills of Exchange came to be part of the law of the land , and came to have a specially English character . |
| 6 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 7 | We had in addition to this party , — a doctor coming to visit his mother , who lived in Coll ; a young Englishman with a fishing-rod , who had left a medical practice for a few days , to whip the burns of Coll and breathe the fine air ; a minister 's wife ; a retired minister and his wife , both in delicate health ; the fiscal of Tobermory , who had a farm in Tiree ; the Chief Constable and Sheriff Clerk from Mull , who came to investigate a case of suspected cattle poisoning ; and a young Glasgow teacher , who came to be guest of the Fiscal aforementioned . |
| 8 | To Orderic Vitalis , an Anglo-Norman monk of the early twelfth century , the love poetry of Aquitaine and Provence seemed to be evidence of the moral corruption of the south . |
| 9 | The dark fields in front of the castle were covered in what seemed to be pinpricks of light until I realised they were men carrying torches , streaming towards the main gate . |
| 10 | There seemed to be crowds of people lined up on each side of the door and lots were already seated inside the church waiting for the coffin to enter . |
| 11 | There seemed to be part of a beam missing in the area . |
| 12 | It seemed to be part of this dreadful time , with the responsibility for her mother like a crushing weight on her . |
| 13 | And when she saw the family cottage , it seemed to be part of her body and life , as it always did . |
| 14 | He looked like a farm worker , but seemed to be part of the family . |
| 15 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 16 | On the surface the man seemed to be part of the backbone of the community , but she had only to remember the marked reluctance shown by those of his employees she had tried to interview that afternoon to realise that all was n't as it seemed . |
| 17 | Somehow , when she did the same , there seemed to be bits of grit scratching her uncomfortably . |
| 18 | For strangers , death in Dornhausen seemed to be oblivion of a peculiarly total sort . |
| 19 | Even if they were reading or washing up , there seemed to be rays of heat running in the air between them . |
| 20 | Their peppy ensemble style and ambitious sound gets you thinking of the '70s boom era for Irish acts like The Bothy Band and Clannad , a time when there seemed to be masses of energy and ideas around . |
| 21 | Seemed to be sort of permanently suspended in mid-air just-so , flat out without ever landing . |
| 22 | And er I do n't know they seemed to be sort of more worldly wide in many respects . |
| 23 | I never seemed to be sort of up to the other scholars at all . |
| 24 | There seemed to be scores of them in the town . |
| 25 | The introduction he now regards as ‘ inevitable ’ came in 1965 when a friend — who happened to be chairman of the RSPCA 's Leeds branch — asked him if he liked animals . |
| 26 | If there were spokes and the Scapegoat happened to be topside of them it could n't fall through . ’ |
| 27 | The Moslems , supporters of the Democratic Action Party ( based in Bosnia-Hercegovina ) , were protesting at what they claimed to be repression of the rights of Moslems in the Sanjak and Serbian efforts to drive them out ( Sanjak Moslem militants had been agitating for autonomy and closer links with Bosnia-Hercegovina , where Moslems were the largest national group ) . |
| 28 | According to a survey carried out in RENFE in 1984 , for example , some 64 per cent of respondents claimed to be children of employees and 14 per cent to be grandchildren of railway workers ( Encinas 1986 : 53 ) . |
| 29 | They claimed to be victims of political persecution following the military crackdown on student protesters . |
| 30 | MYSTERY deepened last night over tapes claimed to be recordings of a lovey-dovey chat between Princess Di and a man . |