Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the odds are that Rich was showing off his new toff as a pal to Philip and throwing in the favour of an audition along the way . |
| 2 | The reason why Hope should advocate Scott in particular , when a limited competition might give the ecclesiologically sounder Street the work , may have been that Scott was more likely to carry out the work successfully . |
| 3 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 4 | His approach to such standards as Miss Otis Regrets , All the things you are and Maria was serious , but at the same time conveyed the feeling of sophistication so essential to this genre . |
| 5 | Married or unmarried , he would not have had the courage of his proclivities : he needed the pretence there had been because pretence was everything to him . |
| 6 | Could it be that McNab was actually smiling ? |
| 7 | It surely could not be that McNab was confounded , utterly at a loss , for surely almost anyone could string a few medical terms together ( enough to convince the survivors of Krishnapur if not the Royal College of Physicians ) and save face . |
| 8 | It may be that Somerset was as much in the grip of the obsession to unite England and Scotland as ever Edward I or Henry VIII had been , while like them asserting English power in France ; for he continued Henry 's policy of war on two fronts , at enormous financial expense , and ultimately at the cost of his own position in England . |
| 9 | It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school . |
| 10 | One way of answering the question might be that Stalin was as unorthodox a Marxist as Makarenko , but this avoids the crucial problem of political control . |
| 11 | It may be that Dickens was a better psychologist than some of his critics . |
| 12 | It could well be that Matadial was thoroughly discredited , even as the case ran , but with advance information her demolition could have been more clinically achieved , with perhaps a greater effect on the jury and with a better chance of involving Zaidie in the destruction of the Crown case on motive and malice . |
| 13 | It may well be that Wilfrid was no more acceptable to Ecgfrith than he had originally been to Oswiu . |
| 14 | Obviously , that was not the case but it may be that Viola was so used to people thinking like that about her that she felt a need to assert herself as well . |
| 15 | The argument for preordination used to be that God was omnipotent and outside time , so God would know What was going to happen . |
| 16 | It could not , by any stretch of the imagination , be because Naylor was remembering another Saturday night when Travis had not slept in his own bed , but a bed Naylor thought was hers . |
| 17 | The reason for this may be because God was increasingly called ‘ the Holy One ’ ( there was a slightly increasing tendency in intertestamental writings and the Dead Sea Scrolls to speak of ‘ the Holy Spirit ’ ) but might just be due to the character of Jesus . |
| 18 | She wondered how much longer it would be before Jack was brought in in this sort of state , and how she would feel if he was . |
| 19 | I wondered why this should be when Granny was so particular , but I was soon roused from my thoughts by Mum . |
| 20 | Shock , do you understand the difference between the loss of pressure and loss of volume , volume would be when liquid was leaking out , coming out of the blood vessels , okay , pressure would be when the heart itself , the pump itself had failed or was not working properly , failed completely or was not working properly , do you understand the difference ? |
| 21 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |
| 22 | Among the wilder rumours in strong circulation were that Lenin was dead , that the French had chosen Nicholas as their Tsar , and that England had declared war on Russia , so there would be wholesale peasant mobilization once again . |
| 23 | The conclusions were that Ardakke was small and remote with nothing much to offer , where dull people led uneventful lives . |
| 24 | Her only comments at dinner afterwards as she gorged herself on tournedos , raspberries and cream and St Emilion were that Shylock was almost as beady about money as Alejandro and that Bassanio was a wimp . |
| 25 | He said that the only questions under discussion were whether Ramsey was Ramsey and whether he had been legally elected . |
| 26 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 27 | ‘ The version I heard-was that Lesley-Jane was going out to dinner with Michael Banks ‘ to go through his lines ’ . ’ |
| 28 | He did bring a picture with him : one of Gifford 's that Edwin was going to frame for us . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The truth is that Patrick was partly terrified of Peter , who came up behind him and thought he knew better what he should do . |
| 30 | The most convincing answer is that Truman was intent primarily upon terminating the Pacific conflict speedily so as to save American lives but that he was interested simultaneously in strengthening American interests vis-à-vis Russia , which included restricting the amount of territory to be occupied by the Soviet Union . |