Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever position I adopted seemed to be the wrong one , and it was possible for certain parts of my body to be relaxed and at rest only at the expense of certain other parts . |
| 2 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 3 | I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help . |
| 4 | Immediately the livingstonii swum up and gently nibbled my fingers — the last thing I had expected to be the cause of the tingling . |
| 5 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 6 | Chevrolet pick-up with two-wheel drive , painted a mixture of pink and light green , which had proved to be the best camouflage . |
| 7 | Some stairs , and then around a corner where a staff pay phone hung under a grey plastic hood on the wall , and she was looking down what she guessed had to be the dressing-room corridor . |
| 8 | Over coffee she asked what she knew had to be the silliest question in the world . |
| 9 | She had expected to be the centre of things in Gallanach , but the McHoans as a family had so many other things happening to them ; she had felt peripheral . |
| 10 | He was described as ‘ a copycat rapist who had claimed to be the dreaded sex fiend nicknamed The Fox ’ ( Sun ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Another factor you had to reckon with was the time needed to change a lens on the camera turret . |
| 12 | She 'd told Dot there 'd got to be the ordinary people too so that the few could be visibly valiant . |
| 13 | All they had led to was the squalor and isolation of this room they kept her in , and the one beyond , and the yard outside they sometimes let her walk in , and the empty hillside , and the whitewashed wall of the barn against which she had stood to be photographed , clutching the International Herald Tribune for 4 September . |
| 14 | Downstairs in the basement , all they had to look at was the brick wall of the coal-hole with Mrs Parvis 's aluminium meat-safe hanging on it , and a line of smelly bins . |
| 15 | The Committee on Nursing ( 1972 ) , chaired by Professor Asa Briggs , stated that it believed nursing to be the major caring profession . |
| 16 | The exhibition was opened on 1 August by Dr Finlay MacLeod , whose enthusiasm for Hebridean maps had been the inspiration behind it , and by the time the exhibition closed on 31 October it had proved to be the most successful exhibition ever mounted by the Library , with an attendance of over 20,000 visitors . |
| 17 | It was clear to me from this letter that we were engaged again , if that was what I wanted , and I did ; also , that the natural happiness and buoyancy of Leslie 's nature had reasserted itself , now that it had been released from what he had felt to be the cramping frustration of home service . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was this legal background which encouraged Howard to enter into a formal agreement with Henrietta which laid down that ‘ to prevent altercations about those little matters which he had observed to be the chief grounds of uneasiness in families — he should always decide ’ . |
| 19 | He had expected to be the deliverer of the news and then the great consoler , but Mrs Hogan was making light of it . |
| 20 | Providing the valuer had been honest and diligent , the court should be cautious before convicting him of professional negligence merely because he had failed to be the first to spot a ‘ sleeper ’ . |
| 21 | The Almighty was something of an embarrassment to the BBC of late , ever since He had ceased to be the exclusive property of the Church of England . |