Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 32 | The dilemma is simple : if the Sistine Chapel 's wall and ceiling were intended to be preserved as form , they should not have been painted with frescoes , it means that someone wanted to remove forever their original architectural character and create something else , which is acceptable ’ . |
| 33 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
| 34 | They were , and were intended to be , a massive deterrent to political opposition . |
| 35 | Pierre Matisse , son of the painter Henri , also had works by Miró in his own personal collection but it would appear that all the works acquired by Katshuda belonged to his gallery and were intended to be sold . |
| 36 | When made with the addition of stock they Jose all character and cease to be what they were intended to be . |
| 37 | On the other hand , there is the ideological and institutional inheritance of feudalism : the assemblies of privileged estates , usually aristocracy , clergy , and commons , which had developed within feudal societies and were intended to be roughly representative of wider social constituencies or groupings . |
| 38 | The Mechonoids were intended to be the next ‘ big thing ’ from Doctor Who after the Daleks . |
| 39 | Conventional item analysis techniques were intended to be used along with those based on the Rasch model . |
| 40 | A Captain Beechey , sent by the newly established Marine Department of the Board of Trade to discuss their grievances and explain the Act had some difficulty in convincing his audience that Shipping Officers were intended to be the seamen 's friends , and that the Register Ticket , far from being a " badge of slavery " , gave them advantages . |
| 41 | These were intended to be interim arrangements only , and further negotiations took place to try to establish the bases of a more lasting political union . |
| 42 | Observations were intended to be made of stream channel changes , mass movement , vegetation changes , precipitation , reservoir sedimentation , and dendrochronology , and the intention to maintain measurements over a decade or more has been realized at some sites ( e.g. Leopold and Emmett , 1965 ) . |
| 43 | In the homes these activities were intended to be a major source of participation by the people served , with appropriate levels of staff help . |
| 44 | The Society believes it is particularly unacceptable for changes of this sort to be put forward through Regulations when the White Paper preceding the Legal Aid Act , and the Lord Chancellor 's comments during the passage of the Act , made it clear that the Regulation-making powers were intended to be used for routine upratings , rather than for radical changes to the scheme . |
| 45 | The hon. Gentleman knows full well that the CTCs were intended to be paid for by private employers . |
| 46 | These exemplars were chosen to reflect a range of different traffic situations within each junction and were intended to be representative of the full set of 28 films of each junction available from the drives in Study 1 . |
| 47 | In terms of the impulse for social reform which motivated many of these surveys , such facts were intended to be difficult to rebut by erstwhile opponents of reform . |
| 48 | The 1984 arrangements , though subject to considerable criticism , were intended to be transitional . |
| 49 | Most were intended to be exulting or to act as aids to the recognition of individual figures . |
| 50 | New Bold college could n't prevent its students from going along and some young Seventh Day Adventists were predisposed to be receptive . |
| 51 | Competent limestones in the allochthonous Devonian and Carboniferous section can be expected to have been fractured extensively where they were distorted in being forced up tectonic ramps . |
| 52 | Of course in conformity with ecclesiological principles , schools were expected to be in the Gothic style . |
| 53 | The changes also anticipate many of the demands which were expected to be made at opposition rallies tomorrow in Sofia and the provinces where calls are expected for the resignation of many of the figures ousted yesterday . |
| 54 | However , one share dealer commented that with many institutional investors reluctant to open aggressive new positions ahead of the new year , losses were expected to be contained . |
| 55 | On fundamental questions of doctrine or canon law their decisions were expected to be unanimous . |
| 56 | Pilots were expected to be jacks of all trades . |
| 57 | This was a period of rapid development in the technology and tactics of warfare ; gone were the Frankish troops of the time of Charlemagne , who were expected to be riders , foot soldiers , swordsmen , spearsmen and archers all at once . |
| 58 | Younger players in particular were expected to be clean-living . |
| 59 | When children were expected to be unquestioningly compliant , parents would suppress undesirable behaviour without discussing the whys and wherefores of their prohibitions . |
| 60 | Previous generations were brought up in an age when it was thought not ‘ respectable ’ — especially for women — to enjoy sex ; and men and women over 50 or so were expected to be together ‘ for companionship ’ , to the exclusion of any sexual activity . |