Example sentences of "[to-vb] be a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around the core that these estimates seek to identify was a much large penumbra of sympathizers willing to assist the revolutionaries , be it with money or temporary lodgings . |
| 2 | Learning to inject is a necessarily hazardous process . |
| 3 | The connection led to an invitation to drive in FI for Ferrari , an arrangement which in those years seems to have been a rather casual affair . |
| 4 | The second Lady Deverill , having pulled her horse off Hullabaloo at the last minute , leaving herself just enough time to put him right at the ditch and hedge , did n't even bother to stop and admire her handiwork before riding on up the hill to rejoin the hunt and tell her husband that there seemed to have been a rather fearful accident . |
| 5 | If the circumstances of this crime — that is the eating of the apple — are duly considered , it will be acknowledged to have been a most heinous offence and a transgression of the whole law . |
| 6 | ‘ And tomorrow ? ’ she queried , recalling that tomorrow was to have been a most dismal day , when she would leave Wilder 's Wilderness and return to Wellington . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know the lady as well as you , sir , but she seems in all particulars to have been a pretty clubbable woman . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Simon de Montfort seems to have been a pretty important baron . ’ |
| 9 | He seems to have been a pretty hard-headed business man , but there must be plenty of others in a town of this size … ’ |
| 10 | There seems to have been a generally similar scheme of attack , if similarities to the Kentish experience are anything to go by . |
| 11 | In what appears to have been a carefully stage-managed cry of unanimity , it was agreed that Edward should never rule over them again , and the Bishop of Hereford took a delegation which was headed by William Trussell to Renilworth to inform Edward of the assembly 's decision . |
| 12 | He does not appear to have been a particularly well-educated man . |
| 13 | , John ( fl. 1415–1450 ) , composer , has left us about twenty compositions whose style proclaims him to have been a slightly younger contemporary of John Dunstable [ q.v. ] , perhaps a close disciple . |
| 14 | It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide . |
| 15 | It seems to have been a fairly ordinary evening up until the end . |
| 16 | The total bill for Bacon 's embalming came to £26 8s. 4d. which , when compared with the £28 4s. 1d. paid in 1596 for the embalming of Henry , Earl of Huntingdon , seems to have been a fairly standard cost . |
| 17 | He seems to have been a somewhat slipshod caretaker , complacently assuming that ill-coordinated groups of rebels could pose no significant threat to seasoned English troops . |
| 18 | In February an Empire Crusade candidate beat the official Conservative into third place at East Islington , and left Labour holding what ought to have been a very vulnerable seat for the Government . |
| 19 | ‘ It would have to have been a very strange accident , ’ he cut in grimly , ‘ to have singled out the contents of the security cupboard for its main target , would n't you agree ? ’ |
| 20 | In 1764 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , but does not seem to have been a very active member of that body . |
| 21 | With hindsight , this may not now seem to have been a very remarkable step forward but , in the context of the times , it was highly significant , the beginning of a quiet revolution and one ill which teachers were keen to participate . |
| 22 | The author of that book seems to me to have been a very sick man indeed . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ This could well turn out to have been a very significant moment in the history of England ’ , wrote Tom McGrath in Peace News . |
| 24 | ‘ Garland seems to have been a very modest man . ’ |
| 25 | I carried on , then came back to live in the North but it just seems to have been a really cemented bond . ’ |
| 26 | Henry Bayly Garling 's Second Empire War Department design was considered by the critics to have been a much better choice for first prize than Coe and Hofland 's . |
| 27 | The Royal Road passed through what seems to have been a densely built-up area of the Minoan city . |
| 28 | Sexual abuse in any circumstances is not to be tolerated , but denying men the opportunity to care is a particularly Draconian solution . |
| 29 | The child 's greed is obstructing awareness of consequences the facing of which would cause him to refrain ; therefore to let the impulse to refrain prevail over the impulse to eat is a causally necessary condition of obeying the imperative . |
| 30 | Will the Minister explain to the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire , North-East ( Mr. Moss ) that the common agricultural policy which he seeks to defend is a grossly inefficient system ? |