Example sentences of "[conj] were [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case we should be back in something like the unsatisfactory position we were in before the introduction of comprehensive schools , when the least successful children were relegated to schools that were openly admitted to be inferior ; and it is likely that the ‘ good ’ schools would , many of them , choose to free themselves from their Local Authorities . |
| 2 | Article 6 has never been implemented and it is highly unlikely that it would be used in this way , especially as the consequence would be to release the offending State from those Charter principles that were not deemed to be customary international law . |
| 3 | But when they turned him over there was a sound like a fart and all his insides had sicked out , bits that were n't meant to be seen and which God accordingly had n't bothered to finish off like the rest . |
| 4 | Many inscriptions on monuments that were previously thought to be purely calendrical are now known to commemorate specific events of historical significance , but the only three Maya books that have survived are all devoted to astronomy . |
| 5 | It is thought to be unlikely that the action will be settled out of court , and prospects of a rapprochement between the OSF and Sun — that were just beginning to be talked about ( UX No 379 , 380 ) — now appear remote . |
| 6 | Since the framework gave no hint of the long periods of time during which tool types were in use , sites that were originally considered to be contemporary were subsequently found to be separated by hundreds or thousands of years . |
| 7 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |
| 8 | Indeed , in two of the earliest reports on this subject , many gluten sensitised subjects were considered subjectively to have an abnormal rectal mucosa and were thus presumed to be showing a local immune response to dietary gluten proteins . |
| 9 | One suspects that most computer scientists would like to believe that elegant data structures for organising all forms of information , together with powerful formalisms for manipulating and reasoning about it , have always pre-existed in some sense , and were just waiting to be discovered . |
| 10 | But there might also be , and were traditionally held to be , sentences that are true solely because of what they mean . |
| 11 | After one year 26 per cent of patients had ceased contact with services and were not known to be resident in the area . |
| 12 | We girls were only the workhorses really — we read the instruments , plotted the charts , made the tea and kept the office clean , and were not meant to be able to give a weather forecast . |
| 13 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 14 | Hamlets and farmsteads within the parishes of these villages were generally not documented before the twelfth or thirteenth centuries and were therefore assumed to be secondary or daughter settlements created as the population expanded , more land was cleared and farmed , and new settlements were needed . |
| 15 | These adjacent police forces were physically aberrant in nuance of bodily style and were therefore deemed to be socially incorrect . |
| 16 | Although many of the stories are exaggerated accounts , and were once thought to be only legends , there is now proof that giant squid do exist . |
| 17 | Patients 302 and 303 died from myocardial infarctions but were also known to be affected with polyps found on screening in their late 30s andboth having later bowel resections . |
| 18 | In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers . |
| 19 | They lay about higgledy-piggledy but were obviously intended to be set up as practice jumps . |