Example sentences of "[subord] this [was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were felt to be a circular situation a formal decision not to ratify could be deemed to negate signature . |
| 2 | The order could , for example , provide for the child to live with his grandmother during term time and his parents during the school holidays if this was felt to be in his best interests . |
| 3 | It was happening in the summer and autumn of that year , and having now established who he was , people in the movie business were asking if this was going to be his big break , while out there in the communes and on the streets , the rebels were electing him and Hopper , and , to a lesser degree , Fonda , their champions . |
| 4 | He wondered if his outlook would change , or if this was going to be the pattern of it for the future . |
| 5 | An essential requirement surely , if this was meant to be in any way a useful gift , would be an adequate number of notes . |
| 6 | When Benito Mussolini ( 1883–1945 ) invented fascism in the 1920s ( literally national socialism ) , it was not quite clear whether this was going to be a force to use against Sovietism or a collectivist evil in its own right . |
| 7 | The sandstone was quarried here at first , but later mined when this was found to be more economical than removing the ‘ overburden ’ — the rock and soil which has to be dug away in quarrying to get at the useful strata . |
| 8 | At a gig in Newcastle , I was reprimanded for saying that a condom smelt ‘ fishy ’ , as this was deemed to be implicitly degrading to women . |