Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it promised to be the most weird — was definitely the most lethal . |
| 2 | Their fleets soon arrived at Constantinople and the war promised to be the most wide-ranging since the fall of the first Napoleon . |
| 3 | The aircraft carrier is the first ship to be fitted with the gun , believed to be the most accurate , reliable and sophisticated close range anti-missile system in the world . |
| 4 | It was possible , therefore , to argue for any of a range of governments-Conservative/Liberal Coalition , Labour/Liberal Coalition , or minority Conservative , Labour or Liberal governments- depending upon which principle of government formation one believed to be the most important . |
| 5 | In the first place , far from eliminating the kind of inter-party competition he believed to be the fatally debilitating flaw of liberal democracy , it would add another participant to the contest . |
| 6 | Mr Rocard 's proposals received a warmer welcome from the man judged to be the most popular member of the cabinet , the non-socialist health minister Bernard Kouchner . |
| 7 | Both were subject to easily measured norms , timetables and co-ordinated planning : therefore of all systems they seemed to be the most suitable for the immediate application of Taylorism and what Lenin called ‘ the precision of clockwork ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Service , if consciously and freely given , seemed to be the most appropriate way of achieving this end . |
| 9 | The rear gunners seemed to be the most at risk . |
| 10 | Cheapness , comfort , and convenience seemed to be the most obvious explanations of the mass response but this was to ignore the films themselves . |
| 11 | for some who , given European experience , seemed to be the most prone to the appeal of fascism in the lower middle classes , it proved to have only marginal importance in the 1930s in Britain . |
| 12 | Although many signs were associated with hypoxaemia in infants 3–11 months of age , retractions , grunting , and unresponsiveness seemed to be the most useful signs of hypoxaemia in this age group . |
| 13 | This calculation , together with aged debt analysis , seemed to be the most commonly used yardstick . |
| 14 | It seemed to be the most stable of the six tested . |
| 15 | So Swallow chose to follow the Trust Fund route initially , as that seemed to be the most cost-effective interim solution . |
| 16 | The ceremony , which took place on 20 December , after filming had finished , was at the British Embassy in Paris-'That seemed to be the most discreet way , ’ said Lester — and was a slightly comic affair . |
| 17 | Suddenly running the club successfully seemed to be the most important thing in her life . |
| 18 | ‘ The quality improvement process seemed to be the most sensible solution , ’ says Harrison . |
| 19 | There seemed to be the fairly uncomplicated desire among the community to see all the children attend the same school , as an expression of relationships existing within the community . |
| 20 | They seemed to be the only two vessels moving on the dark water ; The Abbott was almost invisible in the gloom . |
| 21 | The only person in the room Dyson recognized was de Sousa , the producer , and he seemed to be the least important of them all . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher turned from being the least popular Prime Minister of modern times to becoming an Iron Britannia , a new Boadicea , the very embodiment of toughness , triumph , and grim resolve . |
| 23 | A JAIL claimed to be the most secure in Britain has spent £100,000 changing all its locks — because of fears prisoners copied the keys . |
| 24 | ( Once at a committee meeting when I claimed to be the most nostalgic person present where railways are concerned , Russell was quick to put me in my place — second . ) |
| 25 | Even Johnny Carey , the club captain and reckoned to be the most versatile player of all time ( he had played in ten positions for United including goalkeeper ) , finished his working life modestly in the treasurer 's office of Trafford Borough Council after having gone the way of all managers in the grip of impatient and often ignorant directors . |
| 26 | At the sight of a title he felt that he must bend the knee for her sake , as he knew that his wife yearned to enter what she saw to be the utterly perfect circle of society , conversation , fashion and taste described by the British aristocracy . |
| 27 | The bodies all appeared to be at slightly different stages of decomposition ; the one before them now looked to be the most recent of them all . |
| 28 | This political landscape stood in some contrast to what I understood to be the quite exceptional role played by West Ham in the historical development of the Labour Party and the trade union and cooperative movements . |
| 29 | In Paris , its diplomats proved to be the most methodical , hardest working and best co-ordinated of all the Cambodians . |
| 30 | France , Germany , The Netherlands and Spain proved to be the most popular for UK bidders . |