Example sentences of "be say [was/were] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that could be said was that the judges and staff of the court would continue to do all in their power to reduce costs and lead times in the disposal of appellant business . |
| 2 | The decor was inclusive in the rent and all that can be said was that the decor was expensive . |
| 3 | So , it was in the ordinary conduct of party politics by men in pursuit of power that expectations , aspirations and objectives were reduced to an apparent simplicity , to a crudity of choice for which all that could be said was that it represented the national will . |
| 4 | All Kevin Rowland seemed to be saying was that he had something to say . |
| 5 | What most of the practitioners seemed to be saying was that the satisfactions of practice lay in ‘ helping people ’ , whatever the problem , whereas the frustrations lay in their inability to exercise their technical skills more fully because of the pressure of time . |