Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] was [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then says Mr. Daniel , ‘ Yes , but that is a future consideration and a future consideration , if nothing were done under it or nothing was proved to be done , would fail . ’ |
| 2 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |
| 3 | The satisfaction with which the new prayer book was received and used quickly resulted in a request that the Burmese hymn book should be revised and enlarged , and I was asked to be the editor and secretary of the small revision committee . |
| 4 | Anyway this boy and I was judged to be the most original and the best you see . |
| 5 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 6 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 7 | and I was meant to be taking it in today , but I forgot and so I just |
| 8 | And I was sponsored to be bored to death by a friend , who talked to me non-stop for three hours . ’ |
| 9 | Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels . |
| 10 | On Oct. 29 , however , Kim declared that he would not enter the contest , leading to speculation that he had bowed to pressure from Roh , whose administration had worked closely with Daewoo and who was known to be concerned that Kim 's intervention could split the conservative vote and thereby allow Kim Dae Jung to win the election . |
| 11 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 12 | Yet , while the pregnancy might have been unplanned and she was destined to be a single parent , termination had never once been considered . |
| 13 | Still … those recent moments along the track had been wonderful — while they 'd lasted — and she was learning to be thankful for small moments of joy . |
| 14 | This was her wedding night and she was going to be sleeping alone . |
| 15 | She also did a lucrative sideline in stolen goods and peddled information to the Dublin underworld , and she was reputed to be one of the most powerful and certainly one of the richest women in Dublin . |
| 16 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 17 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |
| 18 | There were other alleged cases when guards were playing scrabble instead of going on patrol and one was said to be unfit for work through drink . |
| 19 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 20 | Not her grandfather ; not when she had come to fetch him ; not at last when he was going to live with her and everything was going to be all right . |
| 21 | Everything was waiting for you , she pointed out , and everything was going to be all right . |
| 22 | Techno Tracies and crop-headed sheep on drugs were tainting the atmosphere at raves , and there was beginning to be something familiar in the frenzy of old favourites such as Kaos and Ark . |
| 23 | The Department of Defense refused further co-operation , the risk of a hostile audience reception being felt to be too great , and there was perceived to be an indifference to the war created by television news saturation . |
| 24 | It was worth a looksee anyway and there was bound to be somebody around to ask ; a poacher or an itinerant hop-picker or whatever sort of person wandered the countryside these days . |
| 25 | He really was in something of a hurry and there was going to be nothing gained by engaging in either argument of fisticuffs with a cab driver . |
| 26 | You 're never sure his car would stop , Grant and there was going to be somebody behind daddy coming up Alexander Street very , very fast and then jumped into daddy 's back ! |
| 27 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 28 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 29 | She was a Muslim and he was pretending to be one . |
| 30 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |