Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 2 | Wrecked cars and land raiders smouldered along the boulevard under a leaden ceiling so high that utility tubes and power cables seemed to be but a delicate tracery . |
| 3 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 4 | The general view seemed to be that the important thing was to get the economic and social base right and the language would look after itself . |
| 5 | The reason for the difference seemed to be that the DHSS paid for nursing home treatment in a number of instances : ‘ They took the pension and attendance allowance and the DHSS paid the rest . ’ |
| 6 | The typical operation seemed to be that the man took a lump of metal from a bin , thrust it into the machine , closed some kind of safety cage , and pulled a lever . |
| 7 | Ruckelshaus is a marked contrast to Burford and her political mentor , the Interior Secretary James Watt , whose attitude often seemed to be that the environment was over-protected . |
| 8 | For the entire working-class left the answer seemed to be that the tragedy of Austria would be replayed in Spain ; for the Republican left it was that the Republic would be constitutionally ‘ revised ’ out of existence . |
| 9 | The reason seemed to be that the improvements in sanitation and health in Europe and North America had occurred alongside general economic progress . |
| 10 | When Mister presented a case for the Trust , the main point of the proposal seemed to be that the application is only being made to prevent being swallowed by the or Trust . |
| 11 | The problem seemed to be that the job had not been openly offered on the market here in Britain , an impossible condition given the remit of the job . |
| 12 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 13 | The reality proved to be that the mainly black community of Johns Island , South Carolina , found that they were unable to improve the situation existing in their communities in terms of the provision of social , educational , or civil amenities , largely due to the fact that they were unable to vote in elections . |
| 14 | The explanation for this appeared to be that a manager can not properly control and discipline subordinates if he is too close to them emotionally . |
| 15 | I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent . |
| 16 | In response to further letters in A Quarterly , the Society justified its stance by saying that while it accepted some correspondents ' views that certain butlers of excellent quality were to be found in the houses of businessmen , ‘ the assumption had to be that the houses of true ladies and gentlemen would not refrain long from acquiring the services of any such persons ’ . |
| 17 | it was held that the circumstances were such that the conclusion had to be that the passenger was ‘ a person using the vehicle ’ for the purpose of clause 6(1) ( c ) of the mib agreement of 1972 and was not therefore entitled to compensation from the bureau . |