Example sentences of "[be] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 We 're were out with before .
2 ‘ It might seem like an awful long time to be working on a debut album , but we 're were n't going to be rushed , ’ says Dermot .
3 erm last year we introduced a Home Care charge , based on attendance allowance , and a number of families of elderly people got in touch with me and they 're were obviously particular reasons why the charge could n't be fairly levied to them .
4 On food control , the level of food hygiene inspections at seven hundred and thirty we 've achieved by buying in consultants to do some work for us in our priority area , and we 're were able to do that with Derek Welk 's retirement , leaving us with some unspent staff , and so we 've achieved a higher figure there than we expected we would do .
5 Yet within two years of the publication of this gloomy statement the educational powers that be were asserting the need to incorporate into the new National Curriculum educational preparation for citizenship .
6 What disturbances there had been or might be were or would be caused entirely by ‘ a body of persons opposed to the religious views of … the Salvation Army ’ .
7 St Paul had taught that the powers that be were ordained of God , and it was generally held that all power , genuinely held , was God-given , that kings were of God 's choosing .
8 The possessed woman , like her bewitched counterpart , becomes the immediate centre of attention and care , and although she exerts pressure upon her spouse the latter is not assailed as radically as he would be were he accused of being a witch .
9 We all came to the same conclusion — the powers that be were determined to make an example of some poor regional company .
10 What she should be were it not for the constant muscular spasming and the recurrent confusion of her senses .
11 Yet in Greek philosophy , it appears , these two senses of to be were not always very clearly distinguished from each other , and sometimes moreover there was a strong tendency to amalgamate them in a single concept . "
12 His favourite places to be were the chestnut leaf table and the top of the mahogany tallboy under the landing window on which he lay for hours , staring at the peaks and plateaux of the moor .
13 They 're asking what the noise could be who it could be were the guards coming for them ?
14 The fact that the sentences of ( 35 ) would be marginal or outright unacceptable if to be were omitted is in itself a datum worth taking into account , along with the further fact that to be can also be inserted into the statement forms in ( 33 ) .
15 It will be were n't it ?
16 I 'm was n't trying a bit of Strach Bashing earlier just its frustrating to see not be as good as he once was … though I still reckon last year he was watchinghimself to make sure he did not got injured .
17 I 'm was having on mine .
18 I 'm was leaning on this , look !
19 I 'm was born in Chester !
20 Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) .
21 He was artistic , gentle and country loving , and though be was based in London , with an office in Great Marlborough Street , country commissions were his favourite .
22 It was generally assumed that they would probably prove to be complementary to each other , but what the optimum mix would be was far from clear .
23 All I would be was a punchbag for his escaping fury , the entity he saw as a new unbearable threat to his dominance in Tremayne 's stable ; the interloper , usurper , legitimate target .
24 Uncertainty about how straightforward the physical process would eventually be was compounded by the enormous time-scales over which it was likely to happen .
25 The last place he wanted to be was in the car .
26 But what its content should be was left at first to the experts .
27 That this was not to be was good news indeed .
28 Where the wall should be was a space , a mist , a foggy drop into infinity …
29 Then , at that point I decided there must be something else out there , and what it turned out to be was music from other countries .
30 There had to be agencies and clinics that were competent to deal with drug abuse , while the best I could be was an enthusiastic amateur , and that was rarely good enough .
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