Example sentences of "be [verb] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where , when just getting to one 's knees loomed as an unavoidable torture and to lie and wait to be rescued appeared to be merely common sense ? |
| 2 | Soho was predominantly a male environment : women , to be tolerated had to be either very beautiful , girlfriends or wives . |
| 3 | In fact the husbands who said they were helping tended to be the ones who did the least . |
| 4 | Ian Scott , co-ordinator of its rural adult education project , said that at times the enthusiasm of the groups being taught had to be dampened : ‘ At the opening class of a course being run in Co Durham , the students frightened the tutor by demanding that there should be a march on County Hall . |
| 5 | However , Mr Lewis 's engagingly informal manner , and his statement at dinner that the United States ‘ would always stand on the side of justice and did n't mind admitting mistakes had been made at Versailles ’ seemed to do much to win the confidence of his lordship 's ‘ home team' ; as dinner progressed , the conversation had slowly but surely turned from topics such as the merits of Mr Lewis 's native Pennsylvania back to the conference ahead , and by the time the gentlemen were lighting their cigars , some of the speculations being offered appeared to be as intimate as those exchanged prior to Mr Lewis 's arrival . |
| 6 | Another somewhat later group involved the clergy : penalties or disciplinary measures to which the clergy were subjected had to be preceded by notice and a hearing . |
| 7 | Gabriel thought they could be talking about Bathsheba , except that the woman they were discussing seemed to be the mistress of a farm . |
| 8 | To be at Group Headquarters at all one had to be competent — I think the Met girls who were chosen had to be very neat with their pens . |
| 9 | I reflected on it , but declined , principally because of my unwillingness to belong to any party — I have never been a party member — and perhaps even more because the seat I was offered appeared to be an impregnable Tory stronghold . |
| 10 | Families had no freezers and very few had fridges , so what was bought had to be consumed almost immediately . |
| 11 | Only a short time after Joe left , the ‘ phoney war ’ as it was called seemed to be over when Hitler invaded Norway and Denmark . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What little ore was mined began to be processed as required by available day workers . |
| 14 | It was in 1972 , after I had trekked to and from Rhodesia on several occasions , and the mission in which I was involved appeared to be a triumphant success , that I received a letter from Ted Heath , who asked whether it would be acceptable to me to receive a CH ( Companion of Honour ) . |
| 15 | He seemed to fill it — the very air she was breathing seemed to be full of him , air that he had pulled deep into his lungs first … |
| 16 | Cassie 's first reaction was that the temporal abnormality with which Rose Cottage was afflicted seemed to be worsening . |
| 17 | Unknown to him , the stump on which he was standing happened to be a car-parts plant owned by Italians . |