Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many men and women lived into their sixties , and a few lived to be eighty or more . |
| 2 | Patients attending hospital clinics had worse glycaemic control , but this seemed to be attributable to the case mix and practice characteristics . |
| 3 | This seemed to be one of her bad days . |
| 4 | But this seemed to be further than Luke was prepared to go . |
| 5 | But this seemed to be more work than charring — for less pay . |
| 6 | There was a buzz of expectation about them and quite a few seemed to be smiling and jolly . |
| 7 | This happened to be all of the middle section of the body , which had lost almost everything from and including the bottom two ribs down to the top of the pelvis . |
| 8 | " Is this meant to be some kind of a threat ? " |
| 9 | Some resembled filaments of algae ; others , while they were unmistakably organic , had no parallels with living organisms ; and some looked to be identical with the simplest form of life existing today , bacteria . |
| 10 | The Chancellor 's appointment of non-party men to Cabinet posts caused resentment in the CDU and in November 1988 there was another embarrassing resignation , by the President of the Bundestag , Philipp Jenninger , who made a speech on the fortieth anniversary of Kristallnacht ( the Nazi 's anti-Jewish pogrom ) which some took to be sympathetic to Nazism . |
| 11 | The reason is that for several years to be pro-European meant to be pro-Maastricht . |
| 12 | The authorities responding to the national survey questionnaire all said that they would offer the services of an interpreter , if this appeared to be necessary . |
| 13 | This proved to be one of the most difficult tasks . |
| 14 | This proved to be one of the major highlights of the event , and a first for the SVR . |
| 15 | This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions . |
| 16 | This proved to be one of the most significant aspects of PNP , and one which had , and has , considerable potential . |
| 17 | As the theatre approached its first anniversary , this proved to be one of its most successful plays . |
| 18 | This proved to be correct although the specially built funicular railway is an interesting example of that kind of engineering . |
| 19 | As will be seen , this proved to be illusory . |
| 20 | This proved to be far in excess of the minimum required for immunity , and although the researchers can not be certain of directly comparable results in man , the prospects seem reasonably good . |
| 21 | It had been my intention to seek out a further interview with Mr Cardinal with minimum delay , but this proved to be impossible , owing largely to the arrival that same afternoon — some two days earlier than expected — of Mr Lewis , the American senator . |
| 22 | We had hoped to coincide with the actual anniversary date of that fateful flight , but unfortunately this proved to be impossible , though we were able to travel to France on September 20 . |
| 23 | This proved to be impossible . |
| 24 | Western railway companies like the Union Pacific built immigrant lodging-houses and segregated eating-places at stations throughout the West , and attempted to keep immigrant and normal trains separate , but this proved to be impossible at the larger stations . |
| 25 | This proved to be charmless and too far away from the palace , necessitating a dull walk along a busy road . |
| 26 | This proved to be less than straightforward as there were some differences of opinion as to whether part-time employees or the disabled should be included . |
| 27 | The software for the 1991 SAS/LBS was set up on the assumption that the Census data was fixed and unchanging ; however , this proved to be unrealistic . |
| 28 | This proved to be another successful steam operation by Network SouthEast in conjunction with Flying Scotsman Services . |
| 29 | This had to be ridiculous , zooming round here like so many trained monkeys , 1000 hp on this circuit ? |
| 30 | But this had to be real specific and it was probably the biggest challenge I 've ever had . |