The article looks into the competition of the absolute and relative tense in the dependent clauses introduced by adjectival predicates with the meaning of evaluation (bylo + adjective). In the linguistic literature, it was so far argued that these clauses can only have relative tense if an evaluator expressed by a noun or pronoun in the dative is (or, may be) included. However, on the basis of corpus analysis, the author of the article found out that the relative tense in these sentences occur in many other cases as well.