Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How times changed — now someone would express their concern ove whether the thing had been cooked long enough to annihilate any salmonella ! |
| 2 | While fitting the rear offside wheel back on to Miss Clinton 's car , Jenny 's daddy had been called away suddenly to see to a tractor that had broken down on Farmer Pullen 's farm . |
| 3 | Before the land bridge to North America emerged above the waters once again they had been isolated long enough to evolve as New World monkeys whose modern descendants walk on all fours and many of whom have prehensile tails . |
| 4 | Without exception , their hair had been cropped short enough to reveal the scars underneath . |
| 5 | Beyond the houses the lane became a rough track crossing a bridge towards the forestry development , climbing up through the young trees of the forestry and out on to open country towards the summit of Shunner Fell , where , after much bog-trotting and splashing about , we hit the line of ash palings that had been laid down here to stop further erosion of the Pennine Way but which had very largely sunk into the bog . |
| 6 | Of some of the other developments outlined in the Treaty of Rome , a European Investment Bank , based in Luxembourg , had been set up immediately to provide capital for the future balanced development of the Community . |
| 7 | In July 1984 the Princess had agreed to become patron of a small medical research charity called Birthright , which had been set up initially to try and minimize the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 8 | Within the year Thomas had moved into a new company , Macdonald Raintree , which was partly owned by BPC and by Raintree in the US and which had been set up mainly to sell rights and coeditions in Raintree output in Europe . |
| 9 | This unit had been set up originally to refine the art of specific writing for Television ; either by seeking out works of literature suitable for adaption , or by commissioning new material and applying it to the ‘ TV-writing art form ’ . |
| 10 | His papers show that contributors even included Thomas Trollope who lived in Rome , was Anthony 's elder brother and who , like him , had been brought up thoroughly to dislike Dissenters . |
| 11 | He knew that he had been brought down specially to hear that , but it seemed to have nothing to do with him . |
| 12 | Would he reappear perhaps like Edwin Drood himself might have done if Mr Dickens had been spared long enough to conclude it ? |