Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caught in what promised to be a whirlpool of conflicting dogmatic beliefs , Eric , who did n't care either way so long as I was happy , went off to see Mgr O'Flaherty , a well-known priest who had given help and shelter to large numbers of escaping prisoners-of-war and was now an important figure in the Holy Office . |
| 2 | It promised to be a microcosm of Lancashire life in the depressed ‘ thirties . |
| 3 | This promised to be the kind of job he most liked . |
| 4 | Yet it was still a tour which promised to be the peak of Gooch 's great 18-year international career . |
| 5 | it 's not the illusion it promised to be the answer was here all the time . |
| 6 | When challenged by the head gardener the Americans pretended to be a press gang , which was sufficient to set ‘ all the stout young fellows ’ on the estate running off to the town for safety , but he also informed them that their intended victim was taking the waters at Buxton , and Jones set off back to his boat , until the two officers with him pointed out that , having left Whitehaven empty-handed , the crew should at least be allowed to loot the house . |
| 7 | Hugh Griffiths , an outsize and very grand Welsh actor with eyebrows like handlebar grips , was there in full bucolic magnificence : there was a Welsh harpist who pretended to be a ghost , Rachel Roberts teamed up with Sybil as ‘ Lady Something or other ’ and they gossiped , knitted the acting village together , went on stage wearing wristwatches and nail varnish . |
| 8 | he pretended to be a cuckoo-clock , |
| 9 | And when I pretended to be a horse I got so excited I bumped into this litter bin and fell over . |
| 10 | They pretended to be the crew of Dr Xavier Maniguet , who was playing the part of a rich playboy who had chartered the vessel from a French travel agency for a winter cruise in the Pacific . |
| 11 | To Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717–18 ) , son of a Saxon cobbler , who rose to be a friend of cardinals and custodian of their books and antiquities , belongs the honour of having been the first and , in some ways , the most influential of these " thorough-going Romantics " . |
| 12 | I mean , I can remember him on this , er on this bike and then he rose to be a manager and er as he was , I say he was the manager fo er magistrate up until he retired last year . |
| 13 | By Dec. 28 the pro-government Tajik People 's Front had taken control of the border Pyanj region , reported to be a rebel stronghold . |
| 14 | She also added , without being asked , that Annunciata was not , in Pen 's opinion , found to be a substitute for his Lily and that the maid had fallen ill with fever soon after Wilson left and had been useless to anyone . |
| 15 | Or is there some way in which we can accept and make sense of what we found to be the case ? |
| 16 | A firearm , found to be an air pistol modelled on a revolver , was recovered from inside the house . |
| 17 | Yet his closest school-friend , that previous summer term , he found to be an agnostic . |
| 18 | After going to Sheffield University she worked in a London store and trained to be a pilot in her spare time . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I had an uncle who trained to be a pilot in the Canadian Air Force . |
| 20 | Then he continued , a note of real warmth in his voice , ‘ My grandfather was born in Greece , in the slums of Athens , where he trained to be a tailor . |
| 21 | She learned to love the school which tried to be a home away from home to the 120 girls . |
| 22 | She tried to be a strength for her daughter , but was overwhelmed by the enormity of what was happening to them all . |
| 23 | They was t that tried to be the strike breakers and there was several of their buses turned over you 've probably read that have you in the |
| 24 | Clancy Fernando was killed in Colombo on Nov. 16 when a suicide bomber , believed to be a member of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , activated a bomb by crashing his motorcycle into the admiral 's car . |
| 25 | They 're still looking for the murder weapon , believed to be a tyre lever . |
| 26 | He died in the early hours from natural causes , believed to be a heart attack . |
| 27 | His late father was an IRA supporter , believed to be a money source , believed to have strong cross-border links . |
| 28 | Others , such as the sex fiend dubbed the ‘ Shopping Bag Rapist ’ ( Sun ) , and the soft-spoken brute , known as the ‘ Lonely Heart Rapist ’ , believed to be a loner who regularly visited clubs for the divorced and separated in the Home Counties ( Sun ) , do not have nicknames which provide instant headlines . |
| 29 | Crookes ' lectures were illustrated by brilliant and striking experiments , especially with the cathode rays , which he believed to be a stream of particles ; but his physics and mathematics were not sufficient for him to produce quantitative work in this field . |
| 30 | This is the moment that the group , believed to be a family , helped themselves to jewellery worth more than £3,000 at the Hatton House Jewellers in Bletchley . |