Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [vb pp] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be acknowledged there was between nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty four a slump in the ship building industry followed by a slump in world sea-borne trade . |
| 2 | ( It must be remembered it was still another nine years before women were franchised to vote in Government Elections , and then had to be over 30 ) . |
| 3 | When she suggested that they might be lost he was comfortingly scornful . |
| 4 | No bibliographical instrument could be made which was equally aimed at , and equally suitable to the situations of , all its potential users ; for no matter how large an instrument was made , no matter how many interests and situations were foreseen , there would remain over some interests and situations unforeseen , to which the consultants could address themselves if they were presented with them . |
| 5 | All that is except this one when it could be said he was dealing with a special case — of cutlery . |
| 6 | Three factors combined to cause repeated postponement ; firstly , bad weather throughout most of April impeded the digging of jumping off trenches ; secondly , the French — under a new local commander on the Right Bank — had taken to launching a series of costly , but annoying , counter-attacks ; but thirdly , and most important , the attack along the Left Bank had fallen far behind schedule , and before those deadly flanking batteries could be mastered there was little prospect of an advance on the Right Bank . |
| 7 | so you say it must be implicit in that decision that the , the commission was satisfied that the objective criteria er would separate the sheep from the goats , erm so that no one who would , would be excluded who was capable of competing |
| 8 | In the classic experimental design a control group would be used which was as alike in all respects to the experimental group ( the latter being , in this example , the workers who experienced the new managerial style ) , save in this one respect ; only the experimental group is subjected to the independent variable . |
| 9 | Thus , rather than discussing the results further now , a new study will be described which was designed as an attempt to extend and replicate the results from Study 2 . |
| 10 | It may be simply that no document has survived in which Aethelberht was required to acknowledge Aethelbald as his overlord , but so far as can be seen there was no restriction on the power of the Kentish king to grant land to whomsoever he wished . |
| 11 | It can be said he was a victim of circumstances . |
| 12 | It can be said he was addressing a captive audience … of stooges . |
| 13 | For what sin can be named which was not included in this one act . |