Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] was [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendency of a work to deprave or corrupt its readers was henceforth to be judged in the light of its total impact , rather than by the arousing potential of " purple passages " . |
| 2 | Her husband was nowhere to be seen . |
| 3 | But when Katherine came to dress for the party , her dress was nowhere to be found in her wardrobe . |
| 4 | The basis of future regional policy and its instruments was eventually to be found in the Thompson Report ( 1973 ) on the regional problems of the enlarged EC , which reaffirmed the view that in the long term , monetary union was not possible without an effective regional policy . |
| 5 | French architectural styles at home , the desirability of French education for Scots abroad , military and economic ties , all combined to produce the feeling that even if a French upbringing for their monarch was only to be countenanced because of the extreme dangers created by the Rough Wooing , it was not unnatural in the way that an English upbringing would have been . |
| 6 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 7 | There he worked on the unfashionable inorganic chemistry ; his science was always to be on the boundary of physics and chemistry . |
| 8 | As González remarks , ‘ Given the Guatemalan precedent [ in 1954 the CIA organised the overthrow of left-wing President Arbenz ] [ Castro ] may therefore have calculated that if his regime was inevitably to be labelled as ‘ Communist ’ , he had everything to gain by moving closer to the Cuban Communists who could serve as brokers in obtaining indispensable Soviet assistance' ( González : 1968 , p. 48 ) . |
| 9 | Also the first time you realised how unlikely your crime was ever to be discovered . |