Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the only thing I cared about was the damn foolishness of the banning . |
| 2 | It was as if the only thing he cared about was the stupid thing . |
| 3 | He changed from being a nice lad into being violent . |
| 4 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 5 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 6 | PRAGUE to Zurich promised to be a better-than-average test drive for a new model . |
| 7 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 8 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 9 | On the first occasion , I remembered , I had found a highly personable stray kitten and before the week was up had delivered it to what promised to be a good new home adjacent to that jokey castle . |
| 10 | New England , I knew , would be ablaze with colour in autumn , so the drive promised to be a spectacular one . |
| 11 | Expanding your market by selling to schools promised to be a controversial session , and did not disappoint . |
| 12 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 13 | This promised to be a difficult task ; hence the need for professional economists in the cabinet . |
| 14 | It was widely known that this promised to be a vintage year for books , thanks to an amazingly generous benefaction from a special friend of St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 15 | I 'm told , though , that she went with some relief — because she would n't be around to witness what promised to be the ghastly ignominy of election day . |
| 16 | She set off at once , and at the police station pretended to be a shy , frightened girl . |
| 17 | He pretended to be a qualified gynaecologist , although he had not passed the relevant professional exams . |
| 18 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 19 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 20 | And the winner of the two-dog match will then take on Crayford 's Poor Sue rated to be the best stayer in the country at Sunderland in a £6,000-to-the-winner match on June 24 . |
| 21 | From obscure origins he rose to be the best-known Wiltshire clothier of his day , famous in the 1540s for his use of the buildings of Malmesbury Abbey as industrial workshops . |
| 22 | When she was young and maybe a little wilful , Elizabeth had made what she deemed to be the right decision , and she had suffered because of it . |
| 23 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 24 | It was nearly 20 years before Cade 's discovery was reinvestigated and found to be a useful treatment for maniacal patients . |
| 25 | There was , indeed , found to be a greater right field advantage in verbal ability and thus the first hypothesis was supported . |
| 26 | Snowdon I found to be a Scottish mountain transposed to North Wales . |
| 27 | By the middle of the nineteenth century , the offence had fallen into desuetude , but it was resurrected and found to be a handy prosecutorial weapon against gang fights , because it enabled the prosecutor to circumvent the limitations imposed by the laws of complicity . |
| 28 | He is quickly shipped off to San Francisco to be studied by a German scientist ( Jon Voight ) , and found to be the last survivor of a tribe massacred by the White Man . |
| 29 | I gather that the cloth has really been dated , found to be the wrong age and that disposes of the matter . |
| 30 | That was the sound he found to be the worst , worse even than the cursing and swearing and threats he had witnessed last Friday night . |