Example sentences of "was [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some said that what was leaked was bad , some said it was too costly , and others confused these things with their feelings about BT service . |
| 2 | But she was n't seeing the chimney pots or the river ; what she was seeing were the clothes in her wardrobe , those beautiful clothes . |
| 3 | What I was seeing was surely the opposite of what was actually happening . |
| 4 | When I looked in the mirror and told myself , first , ‘ that ca n't be me ’ , and later , ‘ that wo n't be me ’ , what I was seeing was a woman . |
| 5 | Possibly what I was seeing was not Birmingham but our urban and industrial civilisation . |
| 6 | The reasons why JPAC 's quotas differ so greatly from what was intended are twofold . |
| 7 | But dad 's being chilly so what he did was calculated was n't it ? |
| 8 | She was resting be thankful for Judith Chalmers |
| 9 | Yet even here the actual extent to which the rural landscape was altered is considerably less than we might suppose . |
| 10 | One way the model was altered was to assume that the mantle part of the lithosphere stretches by a greater amount than the crust during extension ( Fig. 4.17(B) ) . |
| 11 | Parler the cab licence which was withdrawn was just a ‘ permission . ’ |
| 12 | The show that Miss Thorne was producing was an adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens . |
| 13 | So it was that the agreement on which the first National Government was formed was ignored by the King , who granted a dissolution under conditions which broke both the letter and the spirit of the agreement . |
| 14 | It must have been Good it must have been some sort of carbonate , and the salt that was formed was from the hydrochloric acid was calcium chloride , so it must have been ? |
| 15 | The porcelain from which the cup was formed was so translucent that the grain of the wood upon which it sat was faintly visible through it . |
| 16 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |
| 17 | The room she was using was at the back of the house , and as she got up and walked over to the window to look out she could see a panorama of fields lying lush and green under a cloudless May sky . |
| 18 | The mosquito net I was using was less than perfect and my limbs touched the net at night , so the mosquitoes lined up on the net and bit me through it . |
| 19 | The words he was using were n't English . |
| 20 | The quantity of food collected from the help-yourself buffet was enormous and the speed with which it was consumed was almost supersonic . |
| 21 | The time for which the oesophageal pH was below 4 and 5 after the meal was consumed was calculated as a percentage of the total postprandial recording time . |
| 22 | ‘ And I suppose you 're going to tell me that the manner in which I was dismissed was standard procedure ? ’ |
| 23 | Rather , what was emphasized was the family as the source of conjugal love , happiness and companionship , within which sexual and emotional relations between husband and wife played a valid part . |
| 24 | But this year it was much better because they 'd let them all in because it was raining were n't it ? |
| 25 | I do not enter upon the controversy as to what duty , if any , lay upon the medical advisers to give her that advice : that no explanation whatever was given is an accepted fact in the case . |
| 26 | The reply that I was given is as follows : ’ The external finance limit for BR next year will be £2,041 million . |
| 27 | The interviewees stated that all patients were treated in a similar manner regardless of the size of their habit and that the quantity of methadone and the length of time it was given were inadequate . |
| 28 | The gifts of which evidence was given were in favour of the plaintiff 's children and in the circumstances did not in substance conflict … with his intention to benefit the plaintiff . |
| 29 | Karl was judged to be a normal , pleasant boy when he started as a clerical assistant in February 1943 , but he was soon complaining that the work he was given was boring and that his pay — 1/6d an hour — was not enough . |
| 30 | The first task I was given was to bathe an elderly spinster . |