Example sentences of "[be] done was " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that could be done was to work by analogy . |
| 2 | Brewing up was easy — all that had to be done was to shift a few boulders to reach a hot spot lower down , and pop a billy-can of snow into the hole . |
| 3 | One of the first things that needed to be done was to get a short survey of existing conditions , and with the help of all departments the following summary was made : Burma Today |
| 4 | It is not very easy to arrange ventilation schemes when the designer has forgotten to do so and often the best that could be done was to arrange to leave the inspection doors open when on the ground . |
| 5 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 6 | What had to be done was that motion pictures had to be made respectable . |
| 7 | The best that could be done was to influence its shape in a way that gave the greatest help to the home market . |
| 8 | The best that could be done was to find a formula which , compatibly with this , gave something to the minority . |
| 9 | No all , all that , all that was going to be done was to see about as far as I 'm aware , the feasibility of get getting one of the Education Officers and one of the |
| 10 | The nub of the technical job to be done was the control of land use . |
| 11 | In this case , it was held that a woman lacked capacity to consent if she had neither the knowledge nor understanding to comprehend that ( a ) what was proposed to be done was the physical fact of penetration of her body by the male organ or if that were not proved , ( b ) that the act of penetration proposed was one of sexual connection as distinct from an act of a totally different character . |
| 12 | All that was left to be done was the last-minute cooking . |
| 13 | And another thing that sometimes had to be done was writing out off er the they did n't put er notices in shop windows or anything . |
| 14 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |