Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [was/were] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the House of Lords on 30 January 1700 , when the Tory Archbishop of York , John Sharp , defended traditional Anglican doctrines of non-resistance and passive obedience , he made it clear that the authority which must be obeyed was the law of the land . |
| 2 | Hence I take the view that the absence of any reference to the criterion of proportionality in the B. & Q. judgment is not of fundamental importance and that the reason for the omission lay in the specific circumstances of the case , from which it was clear that any obstacles which might be created were not particularly serious . |
| 3 | A list of the social and economic problems which could be identified was drawn up by the Executive Committee and approved by the full Association . |
| 4 | The aims of the PMIS were outlined and the type of service which could be provided was described and discussed . |
| 5 | Where annual rents were protected by custom , the only payment which could be varied was the entry fine payable by a new tenant , and one can see a decline in these comparable with those in payments for leases . |
| 6 | The representations which come from members of the public and others can not therefore be assumed in all cases to embody the approach which would be given were a a full understanding of the previous and proposed situations in the mind of those who made that proposal . |
| 7 | These , said the DoE , were ‘ a serious step backward ’ , The DoE claimed that the low sulphur coal ( under I per cent ) which would be needed was ‘ not readily available ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The only type of receiver who could be appointed was a receiver of rates who has no control over assets and no management control which a receiver normally has . |
| 10 | Each end of Glencoe was sealed off and every adult male who could be found was killed . |
| 11 | The orphans were hungry as well as tired , and the first thing they did when they got to the disused school in Malvern where they 'll be based was to tuck into a slap-up meal . |
| 12 | Of 223 defaulters at the Pickering Forest eyre of 1334 , only nineteen finally surrendered themselves at the York county court in August 1338 ; the remainder , who had no lands or chattels by which they could be distrained were outlawed . |
| 13 | A discipline devoted to finding out the causes of crime in order that it may be stopped was , they pointed out , uncritically taking up an ideologically committed , conservative stance . |
| 14 | These remarks it should be noted were directed specifically at the Republican Congressional leadership by the man with the primary responsibility for persuading congress to accept the president 's domestic programme . |
| 15 | This cultural context which affected attitudes towards the city and how it might be planned was built up from a number of sources and expressed in the literature of the day ( Timms and Kelley. 1985 ) . |
| 16 | To worry that your brother might make an unfortunate marriage when at any moment he might be killed was something she found difficult to understand . |
| 17 | I 'd promised my mother I 'd buy her some new central-heating , and the only time it could be fitted was the next week , so I needed to be home for Monday when the workmen came round . |
| 18 | There is a there is but er er but er er the medium er er as best it could be used was was Spanish you see . |
| 19 | No one could go into his yard without a cane — which he appeared to be terrified of — and the viciousness he displayed when anyone was near his food was so extreme that the only way he could be fed was to throw his food over the fence ! |
| 20 | Exactly when , where , how and if it would be resurrected was extremely vague . |
| 21 | The effect , however , turned out to be a somewhat elusive one in subsequent research , until the conditions under which it can be obtained were elucidated by Johnston and McClelland ( 1973 ) . |
| 22 | When he made what may be argued were his next intellectually significant appearances , in 1923 at the Peasant International and in 1924 at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International , he had moved on from the French Communist Party and was now accepted in Russia as a revolutionary of considerable promise . |
| 23 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |