Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | No explanation of the effect of the charge or of the sum intended to be thereby secured was offered to her . |
| 2 | He was not persuaded by the argument that the only way the inquiry could be properly conducted was to see the whole picture before making any final decision on an individual case . |
| 3 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 4 | The Party ordered 30,000 leaflets , capable of being used as window posters , and then discovered that the ‘ imprint ’ publisher 's details which must , by law , be openly displayed was on the wrong side . |
| 5 | In other words , to be metaphysically identified was simultaneously to be socially positioned — the subject in relation to the prince , the woman in relation to the man , and so on . |
| 6 | A piece of ecological history that remains to be fully researched was the decision by a number of individuals , many apparently working in isolation from each other , to establish , like Darwin , permanent plots within which the fate of individual plants could be recorded over time . |
| 7 | TWELVE months after PanAm 103 crashed into Lockerbie killing 270 people , the first suspect to be officially identified was yesterday convicted of terrorism . |
| 8 | He could accept rejection , but to be actively disliked was to him a kind of living death . |
| 9 | ‘ Doctors said the fact that I am well built was in my favour , ’ said Ged , of Barn Hey Farm , Netherley , near Liverpool . |
| 10 | Accordingly , the tenant whom we are here considering was entitled to the protection of section 3 . |
| 11 | I think it might , cos like does a lot of legal aid , so erm the , you know , legal aid work and he 's quite into it I think , I think he 's quite a decent chappie erm what they were basically saying was poor people wo n't be re erm erm poor people would n't be represented well enough , were n't they ? |
| 12 | The flag which they were rapidly approaching was closed . |
| 13 | What they were really fighting was the principle of what had gone on before . |
| 14 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 15 | We therefore became aberrant policemen simply because what we were now living was not programmed by previous organizational knowledge and habit . |
| 16 | When Samuelson and Solow wrote of trading off inflation against unemployment , what they were implicitly postulating was a policy makers ' social welfare function , , from which could be derived social indifference curves . |
| 17 | The plaintiffs contended that the commissioner was not a court of competent jurisdiction , and that the issue before him of whether the entries in the register were validly made was not the same as the issue in the action , which was whether the road verges formed part of the highway . |
| 18 | Th th the point that erm we were then discussing was that in practice of course males may , m ma may contribute a lot more an and , and the question was is this er something to do with the adaptions of our species or is it just the this was the question you , you asked me was n't it ? |
| 19 | However , the recognition which is generally held was that the increase in the criminal statistics was because police and public alike were more willing to bring charges against young offenders because of the reshaping of the court system towards help and reformation , rather than punishment . |
| 20 | However , Santiago 's early lead was due to heavy support in and around the Manila area , and as the count progressed , the unofficial returns showed her having slipped into third place behind Ramos and Cojuangco . |
| 21 | THE market 's early lead was reversed as investors digested the flood of company results this morning . |
| 22 | The only ones he 's ever done was bodge it and scarper himself so |
| 23 | The rather elegant frame on which the engine is now mounted was designed by Ted and fabricated by John Welbourne , another staunch FAPS/FAM member . |
| 24 | What is now proved was once only imagin 'd . |
| 25 | The Soviet press stressed that during the Soviet Iranian talks ‘ no agreement resembling what the Iranian Minister is now saying was or could have been reached ’ . |
| 26 | Any suggestion that such a conclusion might have been politically directed was simultaneously rejected on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 27 | ‘ The fact that it was eventually reinstated was not the point , ’ said Davies . |
| 28 | Many years after the war the story of how the Enigma code was eventually broken was told and , as is often the case with officially approved histories , it was implied that the success was entirely that of GCCS . |
| 29 | The questionnaire which was eventually devised was designed to elicit information concerning : |
| 30 | We did our best to keep the men amused with socials and off-the-cuff concerts , but the thing which was most appreciated was the homely atmosphere provided by my wife and three children and by Mrs Weaverhurst and a few Maymyo friends still left . |