Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also the question of your sister 's reputation if her part in this , er … concealment were ever to be made public . |
| 2 | He was soon to be taken prisoner in battle against the Persians . |
| 3 | That 's what the country was it was always to be remembered feat a giant killing match of all time . |
| 4 | Apart from this tenacious defence of local liberties the Caroline bureaucrats , in common with other administrative technicians of the ancien régime in Europe , found that the main obstacle to modernization lay in the inertia of the average Spanish office-holder and the sheer size of the administrative apparatus — the superfluity of posts that nourished what was later to be termed empleadismo . |
| 5 | Elizabeth 's reign is now seen to be of crucial importance because it saw the completion of the Protestantization of the English people and witnessed the creation of a uniquely English style of Protestant church which was later to be labelled Anglicanism . |