Example sentences of "[that] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the village , them that was been working ion the fishing time , they would have been at what they then on the firms maybe |
| 2 | MOTHER had a wonderful phrase if she felt something on That Was The Week That Was was too outspoken or perhaps a little too daring . |
| 3 | But it was just the fact I suppose that maybe some of the the family had died out and the person that was was n't just quite clear where it was . |
| 4 | That was good that was were n't it ? |
| 5 | At this point the stunt that was being pulled off in the music found its visual equivalent rising to meet it . |
| 6 | There was so much to do ; there were people out there whom the system was failing ; there was a world that was being poisoned . |
| 7 | But the argument is too neat , and dependent on the assumption of a desire on the part of filmmakers to express themselves about contemporary realities that was being repressed by the censorship system . |
| 8 | Brian Lane ( schoolteacher ) : ‘ One thing I remember about David was something that he did n't take part in , which was a concert held at the school in aid of a pavilion that was being put up by the parents and teachers , and being paid for by them . |
| 9 | In theory it may sound radical to interfere with a doctor 's right to prescribe , although it was not the drug that was being withdrawn , only the branded version . |
| 10 | He grabbed a leather bottle that was being passed along , and started a song . |
| 11 | To appreciate the progress that was being made , we must return to the career of Howard Florey , whom we left newly appointed to the chair of pathology in Oxford and continuing , among other objectives , to study Fleming 's lysozyme . |
| 12 | One day a German officer came in to the camp to supervise work that was being done on some primitive drains by Polish forced labour . |
| 13 | The most difficult part of the exercise , apart from handling the sheer volume of data that was being produced , was deciding what was meant by ‘ monitor and control ’ for each system element , and then drawing out the related information . |
| 14 | Together — with Pierre Auger and Jules Gueron he told General de Gaulle of the weapon that was being developed a year before it was used in 1945 — the General referred to this ‘ apocalyptic undertaking ’ in his memoirs . |
| 15 | We saw a Civil Defence exercise in Tyne and Wear where local government officials , obviously not in peak condition , rushed about and contemplated what they were going to do about the rain of megatonne weapons that was being dumped on their ratepayers . |
| 16 | The meeting itself was more like a wake , for more and more athletes were finding out that they were not going to compete in Edinburgh after all because of the boycott that was being staged by the African , Caribbean and Asian countries . |
| 17 | In the distance he could hear the requiem mass that was being piped at a discreet volume throughout the store . |
| 18 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 19 | He had been obedient and had never received the fuss that was being made over the return of his brother . |
| 20 | ‘ After missing the P-38 , a friend in Fresno , California rang me up and told me of a Corsair that was being advertised for sale in the American journal Trade-a-Plane . |
| 21 | The game that was being played out in the shadows around the planet Earth was old beyond even its understanding . |
| 22 | The big show-piece cinemas were built to pull in the fashionable trade but they were not designed for the exclusive use of a social elite ; rather they were provided for all those groups who were prepared to pay money for the movie entertainment that was being provided as part of the delights offered by the down-town city . |
| 23 | In previous sessions , Mr E had already shown himself , through his constant ‘ yes , but … ’ interjections , as the group 's resident ‘ butter-in ’ , breezily polite but seemingly unable to accept that anything that was being suggested would work . |
| 24 | As with the NVALA , it was a return to what was perceived as a now lost age of Christian orthodoxy that was being sought : |
| 25 | The dominant message that was being provided for the public was that the law reform being proposed was essentially ‘ permissive ’ in character . |
| 26 | It is , therefore , with a sense of mounting horror that one listens to Acheson sounding the knell of US policy in China in the letter which accompanied what is usually known as the China White paper , oblivious to the possibility that the bell was tolling for the same policy that was being reborn in Vietnam . |
| 27 | In any case fear of the spread of communism reinforced the belief that Asia , too , could benefit from the treasure that was being poured into Europe by way of Marshall Aid and , as Wolf concludes : ‘ It is fair to say that the desire to avoid ‘ another China ’ no less than the desire of the Administration to avoid further Congressional attacks on its Asian policy , determined the timing of US aid to Southern Asia . ’ |
| 28 | The table was to complement a new chair that was being prototyped in the workshop at the same time . |
| 29 | Would the rest of Britain simply accept that it was their democratic right to self-determination that was being exercised ? |
| 30 | The more I researched , the more I realised that I was missing the dog that did n't bark — and that was all the stuff that was being done by women to men , that nobody wanted to talk about . |