Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he pretended to be carrying court documents . |
| 2 | The first clash of arms in the campaign came on 23 August , when Salza 's Fourth Army , moving southward in expectation of cutting off the rear of the Austrians — who he deemed to be driving east — ran into Dankl 's advancing First Army at Krasnik . |
| 3 | Patients presenting at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children between October 1982 and April 1990 found to be excreting Cryptosporidium in the stool were reviewed retrospectively to assess the presenting symptoms , duration of diarrhoea and patient characteristics . |
| 4 | The full-scale attack which she believed to be taking place was therefore seen as a fundamental and all-encompassing attack upon Christianity . |
| 5 | Miller poignantly captures the variety and conflict of feelings that followed the war — the mixture of relief , sorrow , dissatisfaction , and what came to be called survival guilt . |
| 6 | This was the movement , initiated by the Wesley brothers and White field , which came to be called Methodism among those leaving the established church , and Evangelicalism among those remaining within the Anglican fold . |
| 7 | Revolutionary this certainly was in concept , for it sought to displace what came to be called Capitalism by industrial collectivism , to secure that industry should be run by the workpeople for the workpeople , and through the agency of trade unionism . |
| 8 | Of the 300,000 women estimated to be doing home-work in Britain today 72 per cent receive less than the legal minimum hourly wage , three quarters of those get 1 ( $1.60 ) or less and some make as little as 20p ( 30 cents ) an hour . |
| 9 | It was decisive and at times attracted public support because she seemed to be taking action which the public overwhelmingly thought was right but never thought any government would have the nerve to carry out . |
| 10 | And a change seemed to be taking place inside Ruth ; she no longer felt stolid and sensible . |
| 11 | I stood on tip-toes to look round the hall ; a paper-plane battle seemed to be taking place at one end . |
| 12 | The stuff relinquished its grip upon him readily enough , drifting away to join the main mass of the stuff as it clustered around the end of the Bridge , where some kind of subtle activity seemed to be taking place . |
| 13 | Almost before Laura could blink her eyes a vigorous pillow-fight seemed to be taking place as the two small girls charged back and forth across the bed , screaming with laughter when they managed to score a hit . |
| 14 | The party seemed to be taking place in a room off at the right . |
| 15 | It sought to defend and protect proprietorial freedom yet it ‘ seemed to be defining press freedom as a wider , collective freedom of all journalists working in the press ’ . |
| 16 | There was a cool mockery in his deep voice , and she turned to glare at him , hating him for the fact that he seemed to be deriving amusement from her discomfort . |
| 17 | As far as I could tell , the roof seemed to be consuming money faster than we could give it . |
| 18 | The government 's main concern now seemed to be stifling dissent before it became intractable . |
| 19 | He seemed to be telling team mates that his parachute had not performed correctly . |
| 20 | For a time , however , this policy seemed to be achieving expansion without the problems predicted by their critics . |
| 21 | If anything , he seemed to be gathering confidence as he went along . |
| 22 | The rain had stopped , but the gale seemed to be gathering strength . |
| 23 | The government gave a series of reasons for its decision , some of them more plausible than others ; but the main aim seemed to be to acquire cash or foreign credit for the rehabilitation of its industries . |
| 24 | She was surprised to notice that they did n't make for either of London 's airports ; rather they seemed to be flying west into the rapidly darkening sky . |
| 25 | Physicists might be reducing chemistry to physics , but chemists seemed to be reducing biology to chemistry . |
| 26 | They had explained that microlighting was like a return to the early days of flying but two emergency landings within eight minutes seemed to be stretching nostalgia too far . |
| 27 | They had explained that microlighting was like a return to the early days of flying but two emergency landings within eight minutes seemed to be stretching nostalgia too far . |
| 28 | After a bugle call to rise at 8.30 the day seemed to be spent eating : breakfast and lunch were followed by dinner at 4 p.m. which consisted of ‘ … soup , various kinds of roasts , fowls etc. , pastry , puddings … cheese and celery — dessert , consisting of apples , oranges , dried fruit etc . ’ |
| 29 | Everything seemed to be taken care of and everybody was on a real high because it left you free to do what you wanted to do without worrying about paying this week 's rent or buying a pair of shoes , or whether a valve in the amplifier had gone and you had to replace it . |
| 30 | He told a conference organised by Paisley University that some of the safety cases being prepared by oil companies for the Health and Safety Executive seemed to be putting emphasis on the technology involved in operations . |