Example sentences of "[vb past] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rotherham has an Asian presence , but most of the places I visited are the old , white , axis of the English working class , immunised from the input of England 's new nationalities . |
| 2 | The main cultures which Spengler analysed were the Apollinian ( Classical ) , Magian ( Eastern ) and Faustian ( Western ) . |
| 3 | His hall was built on a north-to-south axis , so that the wind blew through it constantly , keeping the air fresh ; but the odours of the spices and scented oils he used were the only ones a visitor might smell . |
| 4 | The major unions involved were the General Confederation of Greek Workers ( GSEE ) and the Federation of Civil Servants ' Unions ( Adedy ) . |
| 5 | It appears that the principle species involved were the Thaidid Thais haemastoma and the Muricids Bolinus brandaris , B. cornutus and Phyllonotus trunculus . |
| 6 | In his case words and the mental images that they created were the only available means of communication with his people . |
| 7 | Swam is the only word . |
| 8 | One of the motives mentioned was the actual and expected levels of interest rates . |
| 9 | One of thems one of the er the gateways I just mentioned was the Open Server for Kix and the mainframe integration . |
| 10 | The type of ball used was the Scottish League 's Mitre Delta . |
| 11 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 12 | These files are indexed by the use of BDAM ( Basic Direct Access Method ) and in a typical database of just over 2 Gbytes , which they found was the average size of those they examined , the number of characters in the files comprising the database was as follows : |
| 13 | But all Mrs Ullman found was the intimidating bulk of three police constables . |
| 14 | The greatest danger we found was the distinct possibility of repetitive overeating . |
| 15 | As Lepine would appear to have done : the Lortie to whom he referred was the Canadian Armed Forces Corporal Dennis Lortie , who had killed three and wounded fourteen when he burst in on the Quebec National Assembly with a machine gun five years earlier . |
| 16 | No doubt there 'd been the usual spate of Friday night burglaries , too . |
| 17 | Many of the journalists felt they 'd been the innocent victims of a political decision . |
| 18 | It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe . |
| 19 | But Ingrid almost denies this : ‘ I 'd been the typical first-year art-school person , entrenched in one style that was really landscapey — all earthy colours and shapes . |
| 20 | ‘ He was glad that Sigarup had come , because up to now he 'd been the only patient staying and , alone at night , he was terrified of ghosts — of the restless souls of all the people who must have died there , far from their homes and families . ’ |
| 21 | That 'd been the big question . |
| 22 | He 'd been the main front-man each evening . |
| 23 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 24 | Increasingly , skilled counterfeiting has led to some high street stores selling goods they believed were the real thing , only to find they 'd been had . |
| 25 | But the tone and guest list at this party was very different ; here it seemed were the elusive Delhi jeunesse dorée . |
| 26 | The problems experienced by United Motors at its Dublin plant , which the Englishman advised were the major factors which would influence future investment decisions in Ireland , simply melted away into insignificance under their mellifluous tongues . |
| 27 | The three groups rejected were the Jordanian Communist Party ; the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party ; and the Jordan People 's Democratic Party.The five groups approved were the Jordan National Alliance ( a coalition of central and southern Bedouin tribes ) ; the rightist Pledge ( al-Ahd ) Party ; the Islamic Action Party ( which was backed by the Moslem Brotherhood ) ; and two pan-Arab centrist groups , the Popular Union Party and the Future ( Mustaqbal ) Party . |
| 28 | right , popcorn starts off as little , like little brown seedy things and when it gets heated up it all pops up into fluffy white stuff , those little brown bits that nobody ate were the hard little bead things that did n't pop up , sometimes they do n't pop up you see |
| 29 | They were persons who had been brain-washed by years of experience of disengaging from colonies and saw Northern Ireland as another external colony from which Great Britain was destined to disengage in order to hand it back to the natives whom they assumed were the republican Irish of the island as a whole . |
| 30 | Colonel David Stirling was so alarmed at what he believed was the dubious ability of the government to cope with a major strike affecting essential services that he turned to the possibility of forming a private force of military and other experts to assist the civil authorities . |