Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1852 Ellerton moved to be senior curate at Brighton parish church , and to hold the evening lectureship at the chapel of ease , St Peter 's . |
| 2 | I pretended to be another friend , and asked for your phone number . " |
| 3 | She pretended to be busy dealing with her correspondence but she did not see the letters she appeared to be looking at . |
| 4 | At 13 he sailed as apprentice to a ship-owner operating out of Whitehaven in Cumberland , 36 miles [ 58 km ] south-west of Carlisle , and from ship 's boy rose to be third mate on a ‘ black-birder ’ or slave ship . |
| 5 | The Federation of Small Businesses is asking local authorities to use the discretion available to them to offer rates relief to businesses found to be suffering hardship . |
| 6 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ We always tried to be one step ahead , but it 's almost its own pigeon hole now . |
| 8 | We tried to be real loose before the tournament . |
| 9 | He took the envelope from Sandison who also handed over what he believed to be enough money to cover the postage . |
| 10 | Inside , about 12 demonstrators , believed to be National Front members , were ejected by police after attempting to disrupt the meeting . |
| 11 | The pair — believed to be jobless engineer Mike Smith and his wife Pam — were arrested in Kingston , Surrey , on Saturday . |
| 12 | Michael Banks actually seemed to be that man . |
| 13 | Whilst this was not denied there seemed to be general confusion among teachers about the nature of ‘ multicultural education ’ and the nature of the school 's problems with respect to this issue . |
| 14 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 15 | There seemed to be little hope for the future , just a mundane job and low pay and fewer prospects for meeting the opposite sex once university days were over . |
| 16 | Following this there was considerable despondency amongst the committee as there seemed to be little hope for the future . |
| 17 | Finally , as summarized in table 4 , there seemed to be little interest in some of the current general matters of concern in education . |
| 18 | In 1940 the United Kingdom , with no defences , faced what seemed to be certain invasion by hostile armed forces . |
| 19 | His eyes were fixed on someone or something at the room 's edge and Lucille , turning to see what had caught his astonished attention , saw the golden girl returning d'Alembord 's gaze with what seemed to be pure poison . |
| 20 | I remember thinking that there seemed to be one hell of a lot of buttons on the average Mother Christmas costume . |
| 21 | As she sat there , she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power . |
| 22 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |
| 23 | There seemed to be genuine concern in the question . |
| 24 | The engravings by eighteenth-century European masters hanging nearby seemed to be suitable study material but not for display and the paintings were particularly disappointing . |
| 25 | There seemed to be Chinese food everywhere . |
| 26 | By the 1840s there seemed to be clear evidence for a sequence of development in the history of life on earth . |
| 27 | Me neither , but it seemed to be open season on Angels . |
| 28 | The crux of the debate was whether this was the most cost-effective way of meeting the demand for heating in Britain , 7 and the Boards were under considerable pressure from the Government to justify their commercial policy , which seemed to be attracting peak loads at uneconomic prices . |
| 29 | ‘ There never seemed to be any time , ’ she said defensively . |
| 30 | To H. C. Wyld , for example — surely the best historian of English — it probably seemed to be common sense to believe that RP was the most important accent of Modern English , and that a historical account of English pronunciation should therefore be , in effect , a history of RP . |