Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic . |
| 2 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 3 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 4 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 5 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 6 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 7 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 8 | I suppose what you told me was the whole truth ? ’ |
| 9 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 10 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 11 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 12 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 13 | But a nice idea , yeah , he 's saying before long tens of thousands of schools will have sprung up in the villages throughout the province erm and that , that basically the peasants like the old style schools which is basically a Chinese way of teaching as opposed to erm the education which the landlords received which is the foreign school and he 's saying how when he was a student erm you know he used to think that the foreign style schools were groovy er but has now realized that actually , you know , being , I mean |
| 14 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 15 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 16 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 17 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 18 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 19 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 20 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 21 | Maurice Johnson obviously realised who were the real patients in the house . |
| 22 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 23 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 24 | They had got his birth certificate , which confirmed he was the only son of Sydney Marriot Marr , Major , late of the Royal Artillery , and Helen Marie Armitage . |
| 25 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 26 | He claimed it was the fabled treaure , buried in 1945 , of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita . |
| 27 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 28 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 29 | All that betrayed her was the slight tremor in the hand holding her wineglass . |
| 30 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |