Example sentences of "[vb past] be was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 2 | He thought is was too flat , too dated for nineteen seventy , or whatever year it was . |
| 3 | But at a time like that when i it 's devoted to the fallen in a war and men who were the heroes of the war say it was disgusting , you know , and and how they , they expressed themselves I thought was was a very very significant thing , it made a very very strong impression . |
| 4 | Er I never actually had any part in it but I heard tales about er the rivet boy in particular , the they would er they would give him a wage equivalent to what they thought was was a was a reasonable wage for him , because of the fact that they were on piece work , he had to see that the rivets there on time . |
| 5 | er , I felt was was very very valuable . |
| 6 | Women make their own minds up about what they want to do , I find , so I left it ; but about a year ago she invited me to a party and indicated that whoever it had been was no longer around . |
| 7 | Where their street had been was a wasteland . |
| 8 | Where they had been was raw earth , smothered with the rubbish and dust of bombardment , and pitted with curious mounds and recesses which Nicholas recognised only slowly as rank upon rank of recent , random , haphazard graves . |
| 9 | Some indication of how successful Mining Awareness 's campaign to spread information had been was provided on 21 March 1989 when Gold EIA was founded . |
| 10 | What space there had been was taken up by two glass-topped tables . |
| 11 | It seems that whatever Saxon settlement there had been was so devastated during the Norman advance of 1070 that it was still uninhabited at the time of the survey in 1086 . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) . |
| 13 | The space where she had been was obliterated in a flash of hard radiation . |
| 14 | All it had been was a futile expression of the frustration and anger that bubbled inside her . |
| 15 | The flighty girl she had been was graver , and her compassion was real because the suffering of which she spoke was no longer an abstract thing to her . |
| 16 | What little peace there had been was quite cut up . |
| 17 | Anyway , one of the people Rose Fox had been was John Wesley . |