Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [conj] this was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clear as it might be that this was no time to continue old feuds with the shipowners , to lower one 's guard against them was too much to be expected . |
| 2 | I do n't know whether he 's going to that , he might be but this was , this , he was up sort of seeing , meeting all the Labour Party candidates for the north west . |
| 3 | It may be that this was done only where there was a public interest , but we have already seen that in the two areas in which trusts involved purely private interests , restitution of property and manumission , the remedies of cognitio were in any case adequate to secure specific performance . |
| 4 | Indeed it may be that this was ‘ the last straw ’ for W. |
| 5 | There is much to be said for an extension of the mental element in rape to cover this type of case , and it may be that this was the Committee 's intention . |