Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I though me time had come to be quite honest . |
| 2 | She had previously limited her expression of that disapproval to hints , and to glancing remarks ; now , clearly , she had decided the time had come to be more open . |
| 3 | ‘ You may have thought that things had gotten to be as bad as they could get , but Mr Koons ' show proves you were wrong , ’ wrote one particularly shrill reviewer . |
| 4 | Nigel was looking forward to the occasion and Gina had promised to be especially nice and polite as long as she could have one of her friends there to make up a foursome . |
| 5 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 6 | Singh 's silence prompted Indian newspapers , which had tended to be very supportive of the Prime Minister , to publish some highly critical articles . |
| 7 | Forty years after the event , the survivors were a sociable group with their own small London club and a way of closing ranks that , in wartime , had needed to be desperately widespread . |
| 8 | It had got to be as near as thi thinness of tissue paper . |
| 9 | Fortunately for Napoleon III , Alexander II was so involved for the next six years with the internal reconstruction of his Empire , which the Crimean War had shown to be lamentably weak , that he had no time for a ‘ forward ’ policy in Europe which might thwart French designs . |
| 10 | The initiative is based on a Scottish scheme which had proved to be highly successful in pre= serving buildings of interest . |
| 11 | She was about to tell him that was his own stupid fault and that she was n't here to wait on him — particularly since he had proved to be so inhospitable . |
| 12 | MDC noted that the Retirement planning seminar held on 31 May 1991 had proved to be very successful and agreed to hold a similar event in Manchester on 21 February 1992 . |
| 13 | Secretary reported that the first set of four photographs had proved to be very popular and sales to date had covered costs . |
| 14 | Their encounter the previous day had proved to be somewhat tedious , her most thoughtful conversational gambits earning only strange , disconnected replies . |
| 15 | However , and probably thanks to Carole Meadows ' warm , engaging personality , it had proved to be much easier than she could have imagined . |
| 16 | But the Burgermeister , usually so jovial and noisy , had proved to be exceedingly sound , never saying anything at all at the rehearsal other than to praise the faint-hearted at the very end . |
| 17 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |
| 18 | When she and the twins had visited the hospital this morning Laura had been upset to note that Liz had seemed to be deeply depressed . |
| 19 | In Constantine 's eyes , apparently , Jesus had attempted to be precisely these things . |
| 20 | But then , if IRS had wanted to be scrupulously honest , they 'd have had to call the compilation ‘ A Cynical Attempt To Cash In On R.E.M . 's Current Popularity By Fobbing Off Yet Another Collection of Old Songs As Some Kind Of Definitive Statement ’ . |
| 21 | Yeah I just I guess I had hoped to be pleasantly surprised that it was n't rhetoric |
| 22 | They finished packing and left the farmhouse , where they had hoped to be so happy . |
| 23 | Even after they had ceased to be largely print-based , most conglomerates up until the 1970s remained primarily media organizations . |
| 24 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 25 | This almost utopian-sounding conclusion — that niceness and forgivingness pay — came as a surprise to many of the experts , who had tried to be too cunning by submitting subtly nasty strategies ; while even those who had submitted nice strategies had not dared anything so forgiving as Tit for Two Tats . |
| 26 | Both single people and married couples may feel a sense of frustration as the years in which they had planned to be more free to go out and about , and less restricted financially , are circumscribed by the demands of caring . |