Example sentences of "be 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 | Some of the South Africans are were last night understood to be unhappy that only the English anthem is to be played , but it was felt better not to cause more controversy in the light of Thursday 's threat by the African National Congress to call a halt to future tours . |
| 17 | The small bottle once again is is the attractiveness of the bottle and we 've found that to be very attractive and people are were very willing to pay a premium price for something like that cos as Thomas said people are buying those bottles to keep them erm initially . |
| 18 | The West Germans , known as ‘ Westies ’ , treat the ‘ Easties ’ as if we are were illiterate idiots . |
| 19 | we 've got a couple of fruit and veg and that , but we are were looking |
| 20 | Now we were at 2,000 feet , the grasslands and such trees as there had been were below us . |
| 21 | One conclusion is that Vietnam could have been a proud success , and would have been were it not for , e.g. , the political constraints on the military . |
| 22 | On Dec. 28 , 1990 , a Vzglyad documentary discussing Shevardnadze 's resignation had been were withdrawn on Gosteleradio 's instructions . |
| 23 | They were were usually built with donations from private individuals , many prompted by charitable feelings , others by the belief that education was an antidote to revolution . |
| 24 | Two statesmen who were were in the political wilderness by the mid-1930s were hardly likely , or able , to challenge the unthinking protectionist attitude of a National government which enjoyed a substantial parliamentary majority . |
| 25 | Whilst we were very pleased with its towing capabilities and cruising speed were were extremely disappointed with its ability to pull up the slightest incline . |
| 26 | ‘ It is roughly along the lines were were expecting , ’ said the duch-ess 's lawyer Henry Page . |
| 27 | True , they were were taken in the heady surrounding of St Tropez , where every girl takes 'em off , and where Fergie and Johnny and Bea and Eugenie were staying in a modest £450,000 terracotta pink villa . |
| 28 | Net profits were were $595m , which compares with net profit from operations of $556m in the 1991 first quarter , when the company of course reported a big loss because of the change in the method it used to account for employee benefits . |
| 29 | They range I mean er the the er the er Prussian Austro-Prussian war of eighteen sixty six is is referred to as what the six weeks war and and erm the five , five weeks of that or or or whatever were were involved in peace negotiations . |
| 30 | That 's , that 's what they were were n't they ? |