Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's never proved or said that 's why you lose a job , but it 's a constant threat . |
| 2 | Or had that been a mistake ? |
| 3 | Those that became extinct were replaced by better adapted ones . |
| 4 | Still , that experienced third was the battalion 's backbone ; the men whose voices would stiffen the ranks and give the Colonel the victory he needed in his opening engagement . |
| 5 | My name is as you know and company that found these was which was my Uncle and , well erm , about Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev to lead a Russian political book and I could which was the name of the company today . |
| 6 | Usually , all that seemed necessary was a notice announcing the site was protected , and occasionally some repair or the setting-up of a plain iron ‘ unclimbable ’ fence . |
| 7 | Other individual signs that seemed useful were the observation or history of cyanosis and the finding of crepitations on examination . |
| 8 | The only idea that seemed feasible was for the Collector to put on the rusty suit of armour which stood in the banqueting hall and to go out there with a scythe . |
| 9 | ‘ Because so many things that seemed important are n't important any more . ’ |
| 10 | Straight blonde hair , slender-faced and with a wide mouth of expectancy as if everything that happened that was a surprise was excitement and welcomed . |
| 11 | Hansen ( 1980 ) makes it very clear that signed Danish is not the same as the Signed English that has developed in the USA , and she believes it to be a more flexible and efficient natural language form . |
| 12 | Another advantage that Signed Swedish is supposed to have over SSL is that it is not ‘ abbreviated ’ ; every word is accompanied by a sign . |
| 13 | The silence that followed this was black with rage . |
| 14 | The only things that looked good were the horses , whose coats shone under their shabby exercise sheets . |
| 15 | One spot in particular that looked interesting was the public section of Seven Mile Beach . |
| 16 | Well George was the one that went that 's the King and the |
| 17 | Although , as I soon found out , the Russians themselves were models of inefficiency and poor organization , they nevertheless believed that anything that went wrong was a deliberate act of sabotage rather than the normal sort of mistake which occurs in every large organization . |
| 18 | The organisms that did this are a little more complex in structure than bacteria . |
| 19 | In Darwinian terms , once again , cats that did this were more likely to maintain their social relationships and thereby derive the benefits that such relationships provide than cats that did not . |
| 20 | Note from the counter readings that shot 17 was obviously recorded as an extra after the material for the arrival of the train had been taken . |
| 21 | Three times in the next ten days the beacons passed news from point to point — from Rubha Nan Gall across the Sound of Mull to Castle Nan Con , back to Aros , across to Ardtornish and back again to Duart — that the threat that had first been hinted in Luch 's arrival had taken solid shape . |
| 22 | The only two that remained significant were stage and vascular count . |
| 23 | Yeah that 's a big and my and that stuck out the bucket like that , well going over the top we had a hood over the top tumbler to stop the flashing , so my father stopped , thinking that was a bit of wood and were gon na break the top of the tumbler , so he stop and out and scrubbed it and found that was this bone and I think if my memory serve me right that 's in the , the Fleet Museum now . |
| 24 | It was a game they could win only by losing ; every possibility checked and found empty was a point gained , and with every one discarded their spirits rose towards optimism . |
| 25 | Tail arched and bristled This is the signal of a defensive cat , but one that may attack if provoked further . |
| 26 | Blake could n't see any form of power and assumed this was a machine-driven contraption . |
| 27 | They 're they you they 're all worked you know sandpapered and polished that 's rough , what they call rough work and then you gradually go onto the maybe staining and the just quite a lot of oak and there 's quite a lot of mahogany and walnut . |
| 28 | That description captures perfectly the feeling of being invisible and diminished that is our worst fear about ageing . |
| 29 | Until recently social barriers both kept the working-class out of suburban sports and decreed that being a professional was a kind of elevated manual labour and not a proper or respectable career for a middle-class man . |
| 30 | Then it happened again and I checked the fuel filter and discovered that is was contaminated . |