Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the areas to be examined was criminal work in magistrates ’ courts . |
| 2 | The next candidate to be examined was arachidonic acid . |
| 3 | The detection rate of cryptosporidiosis in the one year in which it was possible to be calculated was similar to the finding of 1.4% reported by Baxby and Hart . |
| 4 | The first prefix to be registered was Kiikkuniemi in 1933 . |
| 5 | And yet the process whereby the dutiful , rational , moral citizen could be developed was complex . |
| 6 | Having done this , the next area which needed to be addressed was present economic development policy as experienced in West Belfast . |
| 7 | Another area where progress remained to be made was indirect taxation — specifically Value Added Tax ( VAT ) and excise duties . |
| 8 | The necessity for the function to be characterised as ‘ judicial ’ before procedural constraints would be imposed was integral to this approach , because only bodies exercising such functions would be suited to adjudicative procedures . |
| 9 | No further information on institution to be attended was available for the remaining three students . |
| 10 | The land over which the question was to be decided was heathy , with scrub alternating with marsh in the valley . |
| 11 | During the nineteenth century to be noticed was good fortune , while to be praised was a professional advantage . |
| 12 | The marked change in Sherman 's demeanour when he realized that his request was not going to be granted was dramatic . |
| 13 | There was not , however , much discussion on the overall needs of the disabled , and research into how the needs could best be met was minimal . |
| 14 | That such a stage could be reached was due to the work of three men . |
| 15 | Vouchers for kcs1,000 ( about US$34 ) , enabling the citizen to choose companies in which to purchase shares , had been on sale since Oct. 1 , and the list of enterprises to be privatized was available on Nov. 20 . |
| 16 | In the canal carrying business the number of sons who could be involved was limitless and women and children could help to work the boats . |
| 17 | The United Kingdom , in its observations on the preliminary draft , expressed the hope that the Convention would not apply at all in cases in which the address of the person on whom documents were to be served was unknown ; it was unhappy about the possible effect of what was to become Article 15 in such cases and more generally felt that the provisions of the Convention were not apt where the address was unknown . |
| 18 | The third bitch to be imported was Kerusgal Black Czarina , born 24 February 1976 . |
| 19 | The remedial action that had to be taken was painful in the extreme but it saved ICI Fibres and put it in a position of strength for the future . |
| 20 | First , Marx and Engels argued that one of the reasons why capitalism would be destroyed was due to the internal contradictions of the system itself . |
| 21 | A similar effort to control the boundaries within which sexuality might legally be expressed was inherent in the late Victorian attempt to regulate prostitution . |
| 22 | ( b ) That if the effect of the proviso were to impose a restraint of trade then the consequence was that not only the proviso but also the whole of the paragraph to which the proviso related and which contained the stipulation that post-termination commission would be paid was void . |