Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed that the letter about which Clarissa was so upset must be from the War Office , and Peregrine said it made him feel almost cowardly to have survived the German breakthrough , the evacuation of the beaches and now this latest blow on the very day the capitulation of France was announced . |
| 2 | Further , it was seen that the same institution that was so damaging could be therapeutic if it was organized deliberately to foster social confidence and responsibility in the patients . |
| 3 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 4 | That the embrace was electorally opportune must be admitted . |
| 5 | Whether this approach to considerations of national security was too deferential will be considered in more detail below . |
| 6 | A YOUNG cancer victim whose mother refused him treatment because he was too weak will be at home for the Christmas he thought he would never see . |