Example sentences of "[vb past] to be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This promised to be the kind of job he most liked . |
| 2 | Yet it was still a tour which promised to be the peak of Gooch 's great 18-year international career . |
| 3 | it 's not the illusion it promised to be the answer was here all the time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Or is there some way in which we can accept and make sense of what we found to be the case ? |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | The party will have an informal lunch at the Bluebell Inn , Hempstead , believed to be the birthplace of Dick Turpin . |
| 8 | At Gloucester Crown Court in August 1986 a young mother was found guilty of killing her four-year-old son whom she believed to be the devil . |
| 9 | This followed bomb attacks believed to be the work of the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas . |
| 10 | In seeking to grasp this dynamic , and portray it , he had become enthused with the duende , the spirit unleashed by the flamenco — music and dance — which he believed to be the dynamic of true art and artistic expression : ‘ Repel the angel , kick out the muse , ’ , he was wont to exclaim ; arguing that artists must work ‘ from the gut , ’ with the conviction and intensity that the expression exudes ; allowing the life-force it releases to flow — torrentially , vividly , dramatically ; as in the flamenco itself . |
| 11 | Police at Bishop Auckland said Paul Wilson , believed to be the boy 's father , was the driver of the Micra . |
| 12 | He wrapped the remains with those of a woman , believed to be the child 's mother . |
| 13 | Erm one interesting point about overtime and temps er generally is that temps apparently unl are costing us around about fourteen K with overheads which is a lot more than I believed to be the case . |
| 14 | The sale was appealed by the collector 's widow , Gillian Sackler , who , overturning a lower court decision authorising the sale at Christie 's , argued that the Sackler children had acted in conflict of interest with the estate 's wishes , and that the collection should have been kept together , on long term loan at the National Gallery , Washington , in compliance with what she believed to be the collector 's intent . |
| 15 | This photo is considered to be evidence in support of the Unified Field Theory , which Einstein , amongst others , believed to be the basis of the physical universe . |
| 16 | Charlotte , believed to be the world 's second oldest person , was born on the day Alexander Graham Bell launched his first phone company . |
| 17 | The German mining company Uranerz operates the Key Lake uranium mine in Saskatchewan , believed to be the world 's largest , which has provoked expressions of concern from local Dene and Cree people , who fear possible radioactive contamination of their land . |
| 18 | THE woman believed to be the world 's oldest citizen celebrated her 118th birthday singing and laughing in an old folk 's home at Arles , in France . |
| 19 | One of those was Hafez Dalkammoni , believed to be the cell 's leader , who is now awaiting trial on arms offences . |
| 20 | The shaft recently explored points up to Sirius , believed to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis . |
| 21 | The judge was satisfied he told what he believed to be the truth about his fear for his own safety and his shock and horror at the suffering and death of many men , some of them friends . |
| 22 | Below meandered a little stream ; the stream believed to be the source of Charles Kingsley 's inspiration . |
| 23 | A sensible recruitment and selection policy that is familiar to the staff and adhered to be the company — ie the authors of the policy — will do much to keep staff morale high . |
| 24 | With such dreadful taste Lancaster deserved to be the murderer , Dexter told himself with a smile . |
| 25 | Yes , I , I think it would be fair to say that , but you wondered how he came to be the kind of man that he , she found him . |
| 26 | As the 1950s became the 1960s , the big limitation of television programme making , which so restricted Directors versed in the film world , came to be the technique of Continuous Recording , whereby productions were done , as far as possible , like theatrical plays ; beginning at Act One , Scene One , and running sequentially through to the end . |
| 27 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 28 | In post-classical times precatory character came to be the way to distinguish between trusts and civil-law institutions ( said , in contrast , to be ‘ direct ’ ) . |
| 29 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 30 | Bill had been a Beatles roadie and then became a manager , of The Mojos and Badfinger — which is how he came to be the owner of studios in Denmark Street . |