Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adj] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | W w were you concerned to secure the lady in the bed ? |
| 2 | Were you able to make an appointment to meet the headteacher ? |
| 3 | In fact , were we able to modify the mind structure of another creature , we would find that we had ‘ miraculously ’ modified the body as well . |
| 4 | Were we able to exhume the body of the Earl of Moira then we would see an example of John Hunter 's technique , as performed by his two assistants John Doratt and Everard Hone . |
| 5 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1934 , 1962 The Czechoslovaks have only been seen twice in the tournament proper since they reached the 1962 final and on neither occasion were they able to win a match . |
| 6 | Were it possible to take a pill after which the most perfect essays flowed from your pen , A level History courses would be completed more rapidly . |
| 7 | In only one country I have recently visited , Kenya , was I able to buy a syllabus in the bookshop . |
| 8 | In spite of this , how far did the initiative really lie with England , and to what extent was she able to dictate the kind of war which she wanted to fight ? |
| 9 | Was he supposed to perform a Vibrancy now ? |
| 10 | Was it necessary to change the Institute name to , for example , the International Institute of Embalmers ? |
| 11 | Now that the sport was re-established in its place of origin , was it right to suppose a return to the pagan ways of unbridled pleasure and carnal gratification ? |
| 12 | Most surprising of all , at a quarterly delegate meeting at the end of 1873 , " it was generally held that there could be no reasonable objection to their [ women 's ] employment to a certain extent ; the main point in dispute being , was it right to put a limit on their number and … to what extent and how to apply the rule " . |
| 13 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |
| 14 | Was it possible rhetorical question was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the constitution ? |
| 15 | Only with the establishment of the position of the apse last year however was it possible to calculate the length of the basilica at 101 metres ( 28 metres wide ) . |
| 16 | And if he did , was it wise to know the future ? |