Example sentences of "[vb past] be [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another lesson Computercraft learned was to sort out the politics before getting started . |
| 2 | What Blake did was to set up a very clever cover story which would pre-empt any subsequent accusations that he was in touch with the Russians . |
| 3 | They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated . |
| 4 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 5 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 6 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 7 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 8 | The aim of successive American administrations had been to build up the strength of the most vulnerable states in the area — those known until the Second World War as French Indo-China and later divided into the separate states of Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia . |
| 9 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 10 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 11 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |