Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] and [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blackburn ( C.A. , 1968 ) , stressed that the chief officer of police should be and was independent of the executive . |
| 2 | A slight break in the older man 's voice suggested he already suspected what the answer might be and was afraid . |
| 3 | As the somewhat recalcitrant and irascible member of the famous ‘ What 's My Line ’ panel broadcast on BBC television for years , Gilbert could be and was difficult , but when we met at the Coq d'Or Restaurant on Stratton Street , just off Piccadilly , he was the soul of charm . |
| 4 | None the less , new law could be and was made . |
| 5 | Catholic nationalists could be and were arrested with little suspicion , detained , frequently beaten , and all with little or no possibility of redress . |
| 6 | But the horizon and the problem stood , as it were , on their own feet ; they could be and were independently established . |
| 7 | Written documents could be and were easily forged whereas seals , crosses , medallions etc. were , in the way in which they had been developed and used in pre-Norman Britain , distinctive individual objects , which were less easily forged , more identifiable and more obviously linked to particular individuals . |
| 8 | The dangers of dependence on rich men would be and were regularly pointed out : if the local parties were not themselves independent then they would have to turn to rich outsiders to fight their elections for them , as The Times pointed out in 1911 : |