Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1976 , earlier changes in the nominating process had made it possible for an outsider to seize the Democratic nomination , but in office , Carter 's lack of ‘ relevant experience ’ and ‘ aptitude ’ had proven to be a serious liability . |
| 2 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 3 | He had expected to be the deliverer of the news and then the great consoler , but Mrs Hogan was making light of it . |
| 4 | Immediately the livingstonii swum up and gently nibbled my fingers — the last thing I had expected to be the cause of the tingling . |
| 5 | She had expected to be the centre of things in Gallanach , but the McHoans as a family had so many other things happening to them ; she had felt peripheral . |
| 6 | They had looked to be a one-pace crew in practice and it seemed as though they had no answer to Oxford 's attack . |
| 7 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 8 | She was a Gaby Muir , just as Patricia had come to be a Patricia . |
| 9 | International politics had come to be a formative influence on the thinking of the British labour movement . |
| 10 | If a socage tenant died without heirs and intestate , his land escheated , i.e. went back to the lord of whom it was held , who in practically all cases had come to be the King . |
| 11 | By his time , as his biographies bear witness , the primary fact of the scholarly life had come to be the learned hierarchy and the most important data about a scholar to be that concerning his progress in the hierarchy . |
| 12 | He was described as ‘ a copycat rapist who had claimed to be the dreaded sex fiend nicknamed The Fox ’ ( Sun ) . |
| 13 | ON Friday 26 June 1992 — nine months after I had applied to be a Winant and Clayton Volunteer — I flew from Heathrow to New York . |
| 14 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 15 | He had grown to be a mighty warrior , a great sorcerer and an excellent general . |
| 16 | I had grown to be a large , lumpy sort of man . |
| 17 | It was clear to me from this letter that we were engaged again , if that was what I wanted , and I did ; also , that the natural happiness and buoyancy of Leslie 's nature had reasserted itself , now that it had been released from what he had felt to be the cramping frustration of home service . |
| 18 | By the time the two sides prepared to meet on the field of Gettysburg , Llewellyn had risen to be the aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee the Confederate commander . |
| 19 | A brilliant set of backs , but a poor pack , with the exception of Uli Schmidt ( surely the greatest ‘ forward ’ in the world ) ; the forwards ' contribution was minimal in what had promised to be a great encounter up front . |
| 20 | But what had promised to be a happy greeting turned to a strained departure — tonight Adisa was taken onto hospital although she 's since been allowed to leave and join other refugees in Northampton . |
| 21 | Saturday 's last day of the season open on the middle Swale proved an anticlimax as three foot of cold water chilled the Maunby to Ainderby reaches spoiling what had promised to be a chub bonanza . |
| 22 | Ministerial trilateral meetings were inaugurated in order to discuss current government business , and not just litigation as had tended to be the case previously . |
| 23 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 24 | The TBC , he said , had got to be an arm of the Government |
| 25 | This had got to be the end of the road . |
| 26 | Mr Heslop said there was no evidence to support Mr Venables ' claim that Mr Sugar had agreed there should be a ‘ balanced board ’ to protect his position ; or that Mr Sugar had agreed to be a non-executive chairman ; or that each had agreed not to try to force the other off the board . |
| 27 | Iain reported that he had been in touch with the Colvins and the Newis ( retired Methodist couple with experience in Africa ) and both of these had agreed to be a support to the Mafinyani 's . |
| 28 | To this end , one of the younger Communist shop stewards in the plot had agreed to be the fall guy . |
| 29 | As a youngster Kylie had proved to be a wizard with a needle — amazing friends by being able to run up an outfit in under two hours . |
| 30 | Vera Pinder had proved to be a formidable mountain of a woman , verging on caricature , who refused to listen to a word , but kept aggressively repeating , 'Are you arresting him ? |