Example sentences of "that [modal v] be [vb pp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything that could be polished was polished , but nothing was new , all the furniture and equipment settled into their accustomed places as of long habit . |
| 2 | In an era when numerous refuelling stops were still a necessity , any additional traffic that could be obtained was an advantage . |
| 3 | Despite major omissions , such as Hastings , most places that could be taxed were there , 337 of them . |
| 4 | Such activity that could be measured was higher at 30°C than that at 42°C . |
| 5 | Even so , the advertising media that could be used were restricted to printed forms and the advertising of professional fees was still not permitted . |
| 6 | This distance relation score measures the degree of attraction between a lemma and its collocates , by comparing the frequency of a collocate in the concordances with the frequency that would be expected were all words distributed in the text at random . |