Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun pl] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A distinction was drawn between arbitrators and quasi-arbitrators in Panamena Europea Navigacion ( Compania Limitada ) v Frederick Leyland & Co Ltd ( J Russell & Co ) [ 1947 ] AC 428 , where the shipowners ' surveyor was to certify that repairs had been satisfactorily carried out . |
| 2 | With a bloody chin and an empty stomach , Manville had left his apartment already fuming , only to discover that vandals had been at work on his car during the night . |
| 3 | But they were alarmed to discover that sanitarians had been displaced by a new force in sexual politics : the militant voice of articulate middle-class women who pointed to men as the root cause of immorality . |
| 4 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |
| 5 | This is not to suggest that boards had been idle . |
| 6 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 7 | They had refused to supply details of alleged infection and this deprived the nuns of a chance to determine whether mistakes had been made , the lawyers said . |
| 8 | In that case he refused to hold that directors had been negligent on the ground that he was satisfied that they had made ‘ a real exercise of discretion and judgment ’ . |
| 9 | Erm well we 'd , we 'd got something on trying to ascertain if things had been produced by a multinational , which I suppose ties in with probably with , with three down . |