Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was in marked contrast to the situation in some other European countries where more formally theoretical disciplines came to be placed at the curricular core of the nation . |
| 2 | And thus it was , that February evening , that she came to be standing at the top of the monumental sweep of the staircase , under the huge doorway , pausing for a moment , offering tribute to herself and all her gods . |
| 3 | I do n't know how it came to be shown at the Carlton , East Ham , but one Sunday my parents took me to see The Sheep Has Five Legs starring the French comedian Fernandel . |
| 4 | He had dropped down on to one knee and with head bowed seemed to be pushing at the trolley before him , which for some reason had taken on an obstinate immobility . |
| 5 | The man whom Sergeant Bird ushered in through the door seemed to be buckling at the knees , and his Adam 's apple jerked furiously in his throat as he swallowed time and again . |
| 6 | The strength which seemed to be stressed at the beginning of the campaign was his niceness . |
| 7 | Instead I seemed to be set at the centre of a largish halo of believable ambience . |
| 8 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 9 | Station Officer Russ Broadbent of Southport Fire station , said : ‘ It was very lucky that Mrs Parry happened to be passing at the time . |
| 10 | Everything had an improvised , random air about it , as if people had erected new machines just where they happened to be standing at the time , next to the debris of the old . |
| 11 | Accusations began to be levelled at the Sixties and Seventies people . |
| 12 | Believing that death was at hand he confirmed the territorial dispositions made at Montmirail and asked to be buried at the monastery of Grandmont in the Limousin , one of the monks of which had played an important part in the peace negotiations . |
| 13 | An ‘ authoring system ’ , called ‘ Kaleida ’ and expected to be released at the end of the year , will enable publishers or packagers to edit together text , sound , still and moving pictures . |
| 14 | He admitted to being surprised at the progress being made in Scotland , and expressed much admiration for the work currently being planned by the SCU and Teamsport Scotland in developing coaching at both school and club level . |
| 15 | Our business correspondent Alan Saunby says the deal puts a question mark over a similar turbo prop planned to be built at the Ayrshire plant . |
| 16 | The Australian yellow submarine looked to be sunk at the bottom of a roadside ditch . |
| 17 | Mark crossed Parliament Square and even the statue of Churchill appeared to be growling at the sorry state of affairs in the land where a pettifogging ex-apprentice was invited to address Right Honourable Members of both Houses . |
| 18 | The golden irises of his eyes seemed to have expanded , and with his head held too high he appeared to be staring at the ceiling . |
| 19 | But their anger appeared to be directed at the Renault rather than the Jaguar . |
| 20 | However , the two state-run foreign-exchange earners , the Suez Canal Authority and the Egyptian General Petroleum Company , continued to be paid at the old Central Bank rate , allowing the extra Epounds 0.40 to be retained in special accounts to subsidize the price of such staple foods as wheat , flour and cooking oil . |
| 21 | Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined . |
| 22 | Class 321 units continued to be delivered at the rate of two a week , and on the Isle of Wight ‘ new ’ 1938-built former London Underground trains began to be introduced to replace coaches dating from 1923 . |
| 23 | These criticisms continued to be levelled at the many standard forms produced in 1963 , but it was not until 1980 that a number of new forms appeared , the lengthy gestation period reflecting the difficulties in satisfying the disparate interests of the constituent members of the Joint Contracts Tribunal . |
| 24 | If the factory was sold for more than it cost , if the net gain was treated as income and if a new factory had to be built at the new ( higher ) prices , then the capital would have been eroded . |
| 25 | As regards their gods , benevolent ones were honoured , whereas those of an equivocal nature had to be appeased at the appropriate times . |
| 26 | It was something that had to be done at the same time as teaching , and was seen more , I suppose , as a chore rather than as something which would have any sort of positive spin-off for us . |
| 27 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 28 | and fifty pounds of that was loaned which had to be repaid at the end of the course in sixteen equal quarterly instalments . |
| 29 | and , but of course , they were loans and had to be repaid at the end of the course . |
| 30 | However , many men were n't as lucky and women had to be employed at the maltings during the war , mainly in Malt Despatch and Barley Intake . |