Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But despite the er , rather individualistic nature of the context used there 's enough flexibility and openness within the subject content , to say . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We searched for examples around the country but found there were few operating in the National Health Service . |
| 4 | They found there was good agreement between both groups , although social workers tended to be more cautious in their judgements . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were just two points in front after a surprise defeat for Daz Sumner when suddenly the team found it 's real fighting spirit . |
| 8 | He was tall and pale and when Nicholson shook his hand he found it was icy cold . |
| 9 | all you told me was that Miss was retiring . |
| 10 | What he told me was that M. Chaillot adored the company of women and would wish to charm me . |
| 11 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 12 | ‘ What I just told you is straight reportage . |
| 13 | ‘ Have you any info on the subject I told you was top priority ? ’ |
| 14 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 15 | The Romans believed there were three sister Graces , befriended by the MUSES . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But he added there was some evidence suggesting it did not arrive before Moscow issued its condemnation of the US action . |
| 19 | Before leaving the kitchen I noticed there were dirty coffee cups and plates piled in the sink . |
| 20 | Can I just one one final point there is e I did notice in my proof there was in in in typing there was one line I do n't know if you noticed there was one line that was missed off the bottom of one of the pages , and if I can er either give that to you . |
| 21 | Her lawyers believed it was highest settlement made in an English divorce court . |
| 22 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 23 | If she stood firm , there was nothing he could do , she told herself — though whether she believed it was another matter . |
| 24 | Last night I had no idea how to pronounce it and assumed it was pure Quechua . |
| 25 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 26 | I think I just assumed he was that sort of person and night-time did that to him . |
| 27 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 28 | The architecture student who believed anything was possible set up home with the designer — and put his dynamic business brain to use in helping Armani to launch his own label in 1975 . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm surprised at yer. , mate , I never reckoned you was that kind of bloke . |
| 30 | Hagans solicitor augued there was little evidence for the earlier rape charge , he should be granted bail . |