Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1561 he received a royal dispensation to be absent from his Durham prebend to finalize a map of England ‘ both fairer and more perfect and truer than it hath been hitherto ’ . |
| 2 | She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban . |
| 3 | Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients |
| 4 | Furthermore , the very frequency of legislative change caused a higher premium to be placed on the flexibility of any computer system . |
| 5 | Bruce Wood has written of the long- and short-term factors coinciding in 1966 which caused a Royal Commission to be appointed in this controversial area . |
| 6 | The first is that Luftwaffe defences became better , too , and that caused a high price to be paid in terms of casualties . |
| 7 | During the ensuing correspondence attempts were made on behalf of the applicant to obtain a much larger postponement whilst he sought to obtain legal aid for representation at the interview , but the Director of the Serious Fraud Office did not agree , and on 24 June she caused a further notice to be served , identical to the first , save that the interview was now to take place on 26 June , and the ‘ person under investigation ’ was identified as the applicant alone . |
| 8 | And we were heading towards a sector containing a world that seemed a beneficial place to be , for a while . |
| 9 | I liked the town , for all its drab and muted calm ; it seemed a safe place to be . |
| 10 | The deputy judge refused probate of the 1982 document on the grounds that it had not been duly executed in that , although the amendment by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 allowed a valid signature to be made otherwise than at the foot of the will , it had not altered the requirement that the testator should have made his will before signing it ; and that , in any event , the testator had lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , at a % PV flow of below 20% , radionuclide angiography allowed a clear distinction to be made between patients with a patient and obstructed portal venous system . |
| 12 | It was there in the summer of 1980 that she became a serious candidate to be the Prince 's bride . |
| 13 | Although she was asleep , I whispered , I forgive you , and made a mental note to be more professional in the future . |
| 14 | ON A night of hat-tricks in the Littlewoods Cup last night , Michael Thomas made a powerful case to be considered as an England understudy for the Polish expedition should Bryan Robson suffer a relapse , writes Neil Morton . |
| 15 | The Law Commission , in their Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) , recognised many of the weaknesses in the present law on merchantable quality ( paras 3.4 – 6 ) and recommended a new definition to be adopted in all contracts involving supply of goods . |
| 16 | Top hair dressers flew in Paris salons of Carita and Alexandre ; Elizabeth Arden created a new make-up named Farah , to be given in kits to the guests ; Baccarat designed the crystal goblets ; Ceralene fashioned the place setting after a fifth century BC Persian ceramic ; Robert Hailland produced a cup-and-saucer service to be used just once by arriving guests ; and Porthault , one of the great French linen makers , made the private and state linens . |
| 17 | You got a whole year to be |
| 18 | You got a whole year to be four in . |
| 19 | A large , fleshy , amiable bloke with a shock of gingery brown hair and a chummy manner which concealed a burning desire to be somebody , to get on in the world , Mick ( how his new girlfriend , Amanda , hated that nickname ! ) had no real interest in the ideological struggle . |
| 20 | Indeed , despite his role in the revolution of 1258 , when Henry III heard of John 's death he ordered a solemn mass to be celebrated for his soul and donated a cloth of gold to cover his coffin . |
| 21 | We needed imagination , flair and courage and , above all , we needed a political will to be shared by the controlling group . |
| 22 | This later , correct reading enabled a complex study to be successfully continued , completed , and finally published in a journal of academic standing . |
| 23 | Dr Wesnes said that using volunteers with ‘ fake ’ Alzheimers Disease enabled a new drug to be evaluated within three months compared with the three to five years for a full-scale trial on ‘ real ’ patients . |
| 24 | He listened to grievances , gave some measured advice of his own and enabled a savage dispute to be settled by both sides with dignity . |
| 25 | It created no new right of property or chose in action : it merely enabled a pre-existing right to be enforced . |
| 26 | In order to obviate the criticism of increasing intraoesophageal pH being related to salivation , however , the present study has extended the application of simultaneous ambulatory oesophageal and gastric pH monitoring and enabled a valid correlation to be made between oesophageal and gastric alkalinisation . |
| 27 | ‘ The farmer 's son brought a beautiful mare to be shod ; and after she 'd been done he asked the guv'nor what he thought on her . |
| 28 | The Sunday Life photographic session brought a welcome opportunity to be pampered and to try different images . |
| 29 | Each generation chose a new youngster to be trained in the family business : buying and selling old clothes . |
| 30 | He usually chose a different person to be ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ each year . |