Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [conj] he was " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His body was not as solid and stable as it should be and he was frequently off-line by a few degrees . |
| 2 | A partial answer might be that he was confident at the time that Argentina would be the first country to exploit atomic energy for industrial purposes . |
| 3 | It might be that he was speaking the truth , but before she could answer footsteps sounded along the passage , and they both faced the door as his mother came reluctantly in . |
| 4 | She already knew how very bull-headed he could be when he was going after something he wanted . |
| 5 | The head said ‘ Yes , he does have difficulty remembering — particularly sounding ’ , and felt that this could be because he was perhaps more fluent in Punjabi . |
| 6 | Henry Calverley won the arrow at the first meeting at Scorton , but it was not held there again until 1754 , so it may be that he was keeping this promise . |
| 7 | It may be that he was influenced in his thinking yet again by the British , whose officer class cultivated the honourable wound , and whose subalterns had lately contributed in altogether disproportionate numbers to the casualties suffered by the British army in France . |
| 8 | It may be that he was one of the many unlearned priests forced to absent themselves for the sake of their own education , but his going to Chester seems to suggest rather that he was both able and ambitious in the new province . |
| 9 | Even though , therefore , in 691 Aethelred confirmed a grant of land by Swaefheard to Abbess Aebbe in 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) , and confirmed also the successive donations to Hoo ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , it may be that he was not entirely master of the situation . |
| 10 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 11 | I do not know if he was teetotal , but my guess would be that he was . |
| 12 | Once he looked at his watch to see how long it would be before he was relieved . |
| 13 | I see so there would be if he was this would be at the end when you know this was n't he did n't ever do anything like that before he went off to the w w during the war ? |
| 14 | This could only happen when the time was ripe , which would be when he was worthy . |
| 15 | I knew before I went that I would cry that day , but I thought it would be because he was standing in front of me , not because he was n't standing in front of me . |