Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [conj] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time she showed up in that rubbish dump on the Isle of Dogs , there would be little left that was recognisable . |
| 2 | She was being racially harassed and was afraid to go out into her garden . |
| 3 | ‘ Across the regions , the proportion of land developed for residential use that had been previously developed or was vacant land in built-up areas varied between 33 per cent in the south west to 52 per cent in the south east , and 58 per cent in the north west . ’ |
| 4 | This plain was largely desert and was subject to extremes of climate . |
| 5 | Just before his death Poulantzas did come to accept that the state could be a field of political struggle and that this ‘ institutional ensemble ’ was not unified but was subject to conflict and disunity . |
| 6 | One example is the doctrine of mistake in rape : it might appear to be ‘ inexorable logic ’ that if the offence of rape is only committed where D knew that the woman was not consenting or was reckless as to her non-consent , a mistaken belief that she was consenting would lead to an acquittal . |
| 7 | " Superb " was also entered but was unplaced . |
| 8 | Piphros ' vocabulary was indeed limited and was unable to cope with the complexity of some of the things she had asked . |