Example sentences of "be [verb] were [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would the contribution made by this land on either side of this boundary you now propose , be altered were there in fact no marked physical boundary between them ? |
| 2 | Upper gastrointestinal lesions that were able to be treated were often found at endoscopy and this should be the primary investigaton in such patients . |
| 3 | The next five craft to be attacked were also generally attributed to Iraq . |
| 4 | The circumstances in which freedom might be won were clearly defined , and Alexei knew that he had sometimes thought that the lowest class in the Empire — the proles , who worked for pay — were no less enslaved and had perhaps fewer rights . |
| 5 | But those to be educated were still divided into the sheep and the goats , the most goatish of all doing no examinations before they left school , the best of the sheep doing examinations in none but theoretical or language-based subjects . |
| 6 | And , further , ‘ the circumstances in which they came to be made were never reported by journalists . ’ |
| 7 | The few creatures to be seen were drowsily unwilling to be disturbed . |
| 8 | Despite major omissions , such as Hastings , most places that could be taxed were there , 337 of them . |
| 9 | Edward I may well have had similar goals for England , Aquitaine and Ponthieu ( a clearer definition of feudal obligations , a shortening of the links in the tenurial chain and a more precise knowledge of the military service owed to him ) but the means by which those ends might be attained were very different . |
| 10 | On the other hand the unequivocal wording of the promise and the particular path of demand management which was to be followed were indeed due to a growing intellectual conviction at the centre of the government machine that full employment need not involve root-and-branch change in the economy and society . |
| 11 | LAST week sweeping changes in the way County Durham 's fire brigade will be run were formally adopted . |
| 12 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 14 | The need to combine accuracy with flexibility in any system was paramount in SGB , for changes in the data to be processed were often swift and sweeping . |
| 15 | In America the distances to be covered were so large that they were the major obstacle to effective operations . |
| 16 | However , their views on the way in which this could be achieved were quite different . |
| 17 | And I doubt the night in question was well past before ever Adam called attention to the sacrilege , and what signs there were to be read were long gone . ’ |
| 18 | Thus , despite the formalization of a system of state subsidy with the foundation of the University Grants Committee , any fears that university autonomy might be lessened were considerably allayed by the known attitude of the President of the Board of Education , H. A. L. Fisher , enshrined in his dictum : " The state is , in my opinion , not competent to direct the work of education and disinterested research which is carried on by the universities . " |