Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie told me to be sure to switch it off when I ai n't in the room , or else at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 2 | All of them were aware of their role and did n't seem to mind too much that their peers thought them to be crazy . |
| 3 | ( Ireland and Denmark were particularly opposed to lifting sanctions without profound and irreversible reforms , while the United Kingdom and Portugal wished them to be relaxed and certain other countries supported a partial relaxation . ) |
| 4 | The coin caused it to be possible that the bar come out . |
| 5 | Tests on the items at the Oxford research laboratory for art and archaeology revealed them to be modern . |
| 6 | Generally , though , the heirs are not identified ; in any case such entries are sporadic except in Cornwall , where the Celtic custom of partible inheritance caused them to be widespread , and incidentally obliterates the trail of the persons concerned in a great many cases . |
| 7 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 8 | This was replaced by Alan Cull , our chief engineer , during the evening at Wick , and a short trial showed it to be satisfactory . |
| 9 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 10 | They created machinery to avoid extending them to those whose ascertainable record showed them to be untrustworthy and likely to default . |
| 11 | This period enabled us to be sure that a single patient had a chronic and persistent history of symptoms of gastrooesophageal reflux . |
| 12 | Rain wanted him to be careful not to gloss . |
| 13 | Although the countries of the European Free Trade Association had worked out trade arrangements with the Community , recent decisions of the European Court ruled them to be incompatible with the treaty of Rome . |
| 14 | The notion that " one hour 's sleep before midnight is worth two afterwards " has perennially been invoked to put children to bed early ( although only 10 per cent of the survey sample believed it to be true ) . |
| 15 | Stretches of white silky-plumed bog cotton-grass and orange-yellow bog asphodel warned me to be wary . |
| 16 | She went to watch Mary Mullen 's wedding on Saturday as Maureen expected her to be interested , but the sight of their happiness made Anne feel even more miserable . |
| 17 | And then impulse caused her to be frank . |
| 18 | Lieutenant Margraff estimated it to be 112 feet from base to crest . |
| 19 | Measurement of the fusion transcript hybridization signal showed it to be identical to that of the ND1 transcript . |
| 20 | However , the authority felt them to be impractical to implement because of the assumptions about resources . |
| 21 | Only 31% wanted it to be illegal in all circumstances , and 5% were undecided . |
| 22 | The coheirs will be able to claim the share of the estate , with Titius retaining or taking in advance the amount with which the testator wanted him to be content . |
| 23 | For most of the next two years he served with the army in Newcastle , though in 1650 the council of state declared him to be unfit to be deputy governor of the garrison . |
| 24 | Their Saturday evening concert at the Arts Centre showed them to be individual artists of the highest quality who together produced something greater than just the sum of the parts . |
| 25 | He flicked the light on , and the greenish glow reflecting back from the tiled interior showed it to be empty of human occupation . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ agreed Marian , ‘ Allen taught me to be quick but not to hurry . ’ |
| 27 | I think perhaps my grandmother felt it to be unethical , that 's all . |
| 28 | She knew Jonas expected her to be present , but , in the circumstances , she felt it might be best to keep a low profile and retire early . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , in a " matched guise " test which I administered to a class of fourteen to fifteen year-old adolescents in the speaker 's own home area , seven out of eleven black pupils judged her to be black on the basis of an extract from the story above ( see Chapter 4 for a discussion ) . |
| 30 | A sign by the side of the piste showed it to be Timoken , an unmapped hamlet , though there was no sign of any people . |