Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you work out where he was likely to have been put in ? " |
| 2 | The economic forces moving agriculture in those areas where it was accessible to change were those of expansion . |
| 3 | I did point out that you were supposed to have been in another place at the time … ’ |
| 4 | I think at any particular moment in the day we found that half or more of the unemployed people that we were able to interview were at home at that point in the day erm which is much , much more spent indoors and |
| 5 | By our standards the parts of the Western Isles that we were able to visit are not a particularly depressed area . |
| 6 | After all , the kinds of films that they wanted to see and the conditions that they were prepared to accept were now generally appreciated . |
| 7 | Its height suggests that it was unlikely to have been intended as a garden sculpture . |
| 8 | An announcement by the FPR-LZ in April 1991 that it was willing to demobilize was thought to be conditional on the government agreeing to electoral and legal reforms . |
| 9 | I am convinced by recent research findings in America and Britain that social work practice can either foster a sense of permanence or detract from it , and that in the past our treating permanent substitute families as if they were temporary has been a cause of insecurity . |
| 10 | The students hurry about in a state of permanent excitement , as if they were amazed to have been chosen to live in such a sumptuous place , to eat breakfast under chandeliers . |
| 11 | No , I 'm , I 'm talking about building inspectors , because if it was supposed to have been retained , and they demolished it , and used it , you know , in another way , and not , not built it back . |
| 12 | No but we were supposed to have been playing in er where was it ? |
| 13 | Mandy Winston who claimed she was sacked by Oldham Crompton Batteries because she was pregnant has been awarded £5,798 by a tribunal . |
| 14 | Price of the lamp when it was first introduced was £3 for the lamp and £5 for the gear . |