Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reason the tyres were heated was this : when we cut out the piece of the loose tyre and welded it together it was –en smaller than the actual woodwork on the wheel . |
| 2 | Whether or not those complaints were justified is another matter ; enough that at the time I felt they were . |
| 3 | Paradoxically , this provided for the possibility of voluntary unemployment , an anathema to the capitalist class , and so the conditions under which men 's claims to maintenance from the state were met were such as to weaken male work incentives as little as possible , and ideally to discourage men from making a claim at all , except in the direst circumstances . |
| 4 | Douglas Mawson , the Australian explorer , who discovered the South Magnetic Pole , left some provisions behind at his base camp which were found be another expedition in 1927 . |
| 5 | How these settlements and farms were run is another matter indeed , one more for speculation than evidence . |
| 6 | The seven companies which were investigated are all large , well known , international companies . |
| 7 | The only tasks where high success rates were obtained were those where the pupil can effectively treat decimals as whole numbers . |
| 8 | The basis on which the vote was given was that of property . |
| 9 | A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites . |
| 10 | While these various groups which went to make up the hierarchy were mutually interdependent , the basic principle on which society was organized was this formal system of ranking . |
| 11 | Resistance might have been easier if he had been , not that her belief that he was had been enough to stop her succumbing to him once . |
| 12 | What was needed was that intention to make a legal act should be expressed ; this then had to be taken to be charged on the heir as trustee , since in that way the principle of benefit could be satisfied . |
| 13 | What was needed was more of the same — intensified police action backed by the ever-watchful vigilance of the purity movement . |
| 14 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 15 | The only group for which the estimated SMR was raised was that of patients aged under 20 years at diagnosis in which only one death occurred ( SMR=191 , 95% CI 5 to 1060 , χ 2 2 1 = 0.44 NS ) ( Table I ) . |
| 16 | What was found was that referral types were spread fairly equally across both time periods except in the case of sexual abuse referrals where 9 out of 12 referrals were received in hours . |
| 17 | The cups in which the k'miss was brought were each cut from an individual chunk of crystal chased with gold . |
| 18 | Inevitably the Crown Jewels displayed are copies — always a let-down — but a battered old throne on which William III was crowned is some compensation . |
| 19 | She knew the part for which she was cast was that of the self-sacrificing heroine , encouraging the man she loved in his spiritual aspirations ; but she withheld the words of sympathy and understanding . |
| 20 | And all that was left was this bloodied , raw desire to write ; to acknowledge ‘ this also happened ; this also will be written about . ’ |
| 21 | He obviously hoped , and after a little while would presumably have believed , that the person to whom it was directed was another homosexual . |
| 22 | There was much hue and cry among the typesetting and printing community about the quality of this new-fangled technology but the one element that was retained was that of the compositor 's skill . |
| 23 | The specific practice of lawyers which was identified was that of translating . |
| 24 | What was discovered was that , in general , the researchers could manipulate the passages in all kinds of ways without the Cornell students being thrown : if-then relations could be missed out , the logical structure of the passage could be masked by inserting a crucial sentence in the wrong place ; yet the Cornell students still performed well on the recall tests . |
| 25 | The summons on which he made the order was merely a summons which asked for directions and the form in which his order was couched was that of an order nisi which , subject to the time limits laid down in the order , gave an unqualified liberty to apply . |