Example sentences of "[was/were] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To go on acting as though there were is to add to the layers of falsehood which already cover our ( so-called ) civilization . |
| 2 | Flanking him as it were is the wife of another familiar figure and quintet member , Virginsky . |
| 3 | His appeal to logic is mistaken : you were is both singular and plural in Standard English . |
| 4 | What those buildings actually were is still doubtful . |
| 5 | He says , philosophically , that ‘ those engines were prone to signing off even when they were is service ’ , but somehow this was all a bit personal . |
| 6 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 7 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |
| 8 | ‘ Imagine our universe is a huge cheese , and where we were is another cheese . |
| 9 | This is not to deny that there were unscrupulous landlords who were guilty of depopulation — the evidence that there were is clear . |
| 10 | Some perspective on just how limited the reforms laid down in the Declaration of Rights were is provided by comparing them with the proposals for reform which had been made by opponents of the government since Charles II 's reign . |
| 11 | The child we were is still inside us , crying |
| 12 | Yeah I know they were is that what they were for ? |
| 13 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 14 | He asked Lord Aldington : ‘ Subterfuge was your first thought was is not ? ’ |
| 15 | Helen Thomas 's As It Was is a principal source . |
| 16 | We do n't ask a Hollywood actor whether his latest blockbusting performance was fuelled by cocaine or booze ( though to be told that it was is mildly titillating ) , so why should we care how unorthodox were the preparations that preceded the athlete 's explosion off the blocks ? |
| 17 | Unfortunately , a combination of ‘ traffic ’ problems and overdoing the waiting tactics brought about his downfall , but Glasgow will know more about was is required today and can recover loses . |
| 18 | Who the latter was is difficult to establish . |
| 19 | Similarly , The Prelude constantly alludes to classical epic and in particular to Paradise Lost , though how conscious an intention of the poet this was is debatable . |
| 20 | Someone once said that a sign of how civilized a society was is shown in how they treated their old people . |
| 21 | Oh that was is that true ? |
| 22 | At other times it may be barely admitted to consciousness , if whatever it was is seen as threatening to the self . |
| 23 | Was is he gon na |
| 24 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 25 | Yes at the moment another time I was n't going to buy anything from Chile , and er I was asking the young man who was is this from Chile , oh I do n't want them . |
| 26 | ‘ Scottish medieval churches were intended first and foremost as the setting for elaborate sung services , and without some appreciation of the music of those services any mental reconstruction of the church as it once was is incomplete , ’ says Richard Fawcett , Principle Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 27 | Now retired the art teacher as was is painting flat out full time whilst the other runs the distaff side . |
| 28 | Their participation in such competitions was is expensive . |
| 29 | Th th the point that erm we were then discussing was that in practice of course males may , m ma may contribute a lot more an and , and the question was is this er something to do with the adaptions of our species or is it just the this was the question you , you asked me was n't it ? |
| 30 | There 's a corollary to th that was is our impression , from the various views that were sp s spelt out around the table . |