Example sentences of "that be [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to her that being bewitched was like drowning , dark and easy . |
| 2 | well all that was said was , really , they had twenty eight days to pay . |
| 3 | All that was planned was a quick , exploratory trip to Ireland , to meet a representative of the I.R.A. , and to offer cooperation with a group here . |
| 4 | At the trial R submitted that the converting of hydrochloride into free base cocaine did not amount to producing a Class A drug because all that was involved was changing one form of cocaine into another . |
| 5 | The most that was achieved was in a few examples of new highway construction ( in London the long-standing schemes of the Great West Road and the North Circular came to fruition ) ; and in the bigger cities , there were road-widening schemes , some stretches of dual carriageway and the occasional new project ( such as the Headrow in Leeds linked to redevelopment ) and some spectacular new projects ( such as the new suspension bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Mersey Tunnel at Liverpool/Birkenhead ) . |
| 6 | It is not as though there always was a clear conception of what such a science would be like , and as though all that was lacking was success in producing it . |
| 7 | When all that was lacking was someone to chaperone the Kindertransporte , Trevor Chadwick , a Latin teacher from Swanage , made a timely appearance . |
| 8 | The Americans wanted their Philippines bases ; all that was needed was Marcos 's ritual invoking of the Red Menace to make everything possible . |
| 9 | All that was needed was for someone to take Rowland 's ascetic vision/version of soul fanaticism and commandeer it for political ends . |
| 10 | All that was needed was a positive reply from Mr Hussein . |
| 11 | All that was needed was skill combined with imagination . |
| 12 | All that was needed was a little encouragement , a sign that the employer was committed to good employment policies and practices for people with disabilities . |
| 13 | ALL THAT WAS NEEDED WAS ONE FINAL PUSH |
| 14 | With the Charter and the political precepts of the paper firmly in place , all that was needed was to drag a few journalists out of the pubs and set them to work . |
| 15 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 16 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 17 | Perhaps , as Ho said later , all that was needed was for the French to pronounce one word : independence ; but on both sides this was the most fraught and emotional issue . |
| 18 | The electorate did not need to be a democratic one , and as a general rule was not ; all that was needed was an electorate consisting of the men of substance , so that the government would be responsive to their choices . |
| 19 | All that was needed was a computer at each end of a dedicated phone line , and software to allow computer to computer communications . |
| 20 | All that was needed was to measure a certain number of coefficients of elasticity , viscosity , conductivity , etc . |
| 21 | All that was needed was a fifty-signature petition , a special general meeting and a simple majority in favour of the proposition . |
| 22 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 23 | And this Fulham woman who was administering arsenic , only all that was happening was her hubby was getting a tingling in his feet . " |
| 24 | Jos Hermens , agent and manager to Krabbe and Breuer , said later : ‘ The pack [ containing the samples ] that was used was not meant for doping control . |
| 25 | On 25th February , Pennethorne received a letter from Hall saying that all that was required was a ‘ probationary sketch ’ , as the project offered a good opportunity for an architectural competition . |
| 26 | Rule 10b-5 was sufficiently open-ended to embrace the misappropriation theory , since all that was required was fraud ‘ in connection with ’ the purchase or sale of securities , even if that fraud was not actually on the issuer of those securities but on some third party . |
| 27 | The aim of the discussion on full employment policy in his Cabinet committee was to put out a statement before Beveridge , and the politicians were prepared to slide over practical difficulties in implementing the policy — all that was required was a statement of principles . |
| 28 | In this sense the wartime consensus was an illusion based on the extrapolation of wartime solidarity into peacetime and on the fact that all that was required was the maintenance of full employment , not its creation anew . |
| 29 | The exact place of birth is not recorded ; all that was required was a tick in the Yes or No column in answer to the question of whether or not a person was born in the county of his or her present residence . |
| 30 | He 'd had his go , if all that was rumoured was to be believed . |