Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other thing that concerned me was particular slots which do n't seem to ever produce much in the way of attendance or revenue . |
| 2 | With regard to the now unimportant four percent increase which then if you may made I 'm sure councillors deny it and if we are to believe the reason that we have to bring our rents to this level is because government policy so dictates that we shall do . |
| 3 | The only person who approached me was poor Ian Smith , who came to London but was not a representative at the talks . |
| 4 | But despite the er , rather individualistic nature of the context used there 's enough flexibility and openness within the subject content , to say . |
| 5 | That is why I can not find it within me to sympathise with the poor punters who once besieged the offices of the Daily Mail demanding their £35,000 in prize money only to find that when the music stopped there were more winners than chairs for them to sit upon . |
| 6 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 7 | They found there are higher levels of carbon monoxide , carbon monoxide pollution from vehicle exhausts has increased by forty two percent |
| 8 | Players certainly gained in terms of rising wages , advertising , and other sources of income , but at the highest level they often found there were new stresses to cope with as they were ‘ declassed ’ and lost touch with their old communities . |
| 9 | The survey was conducted outside London , but a comparable investigation within the capital found there were more complaints about prices , beer quality and the general character of the pub , but fewer about service . |
| 10 | I I feel a bit sorry for for some of the counters because they can see certain on one palette for instance , I found there were three sorts of bags . |
| 11 | We searched for examples around the country but found there were few operating in the National Health Service . |
| 12 | They found there was good agreement between both groups , although social workers tended to be more cautious in their judgements . |
| 13 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 14 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 15 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 16 | They were just two points in front after a surprise defeat for Daz Sumner when suddenly the team found it 's real fighting spirit . |
| 17 | He was tall and pale and when Nicholson shook his hand he found it was icy cold . |
| 18 | Cedric ate them is vast quantities and with evident enjoyment but they , like everything else , made not the slightest difference to his condition . |
| 19 | all you told me was that Miss was retiring . |
| 20 | What he told me was that M. Chaillot adored the company of women and would wish to charm me . |
| 21 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 22 | ‘ What I just told you is straight reportage . |
| 23 | ‘ Have you any info on the subject I told you was top priority ? ’ |
| 24 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 25 | During 1986 , Mr Scott did once enter the kitchen , and when he did not see his wife assumed she was visiting relatives . |
| 26 | The French believed there were British officers aboard , and others think someone came back to fire the explosive , for there was more than an hour 's delay on the set time . |
| 27 | The Romans believed there were three sister Graces , befriended by the MUSES . |
| 28 | The servants believed there was some blight on Iskandara and her mother — they had gossiped across Alexandra in her nursery when she was supposedly too small to understand — some blight so that only daughters were born to these remarkable women who craved sons , and lone daughters at that , born late , at a time when most women were coming to an end of their childbearing . |
| 29 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 30 | But he added there was some evidence suggesting it did not arrive before Moscow issued its condemnation of the US action . |