Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . However , after about eighteen month at , as a yard foreman , as I say I was still branch secretary of Portobello branch , and carrying on as usual , er I put in for There were this yard inspectors job wanted at Street Station . |
| 2 | ‘ How do I know you 're not Anneka Rice ? ’ ? |
| 3 | And many women who came who were not labour movement activists welcomed Women for Socialism initiative , considering the time somewhat overdue for labour movement women to reach out to other socialist-feminists . |
| 4 | ‘ The important thing , ’ he quoted almost to himself , ‘ is to remember it 's not brute force with a fixed-spool reel ; just a controlled flick . ’ |
| 5 | Young 's award acknowledges his handling of the I Ca n't Believe It 's Not Butter controversy . |
| 6 | Van den Berghs ' marketing director Bill Young took the UK marketer of the year trophy in recognition of his deft handling of the I Ca n't Believe It 's Not Butter controversy , which showed that even the monolithic Unilever can be quick on its feet when its brands are under threat . |
| 7 | Shivering through to my wrists and nipples , I know it is not jet lag . |
| 8 | Mr Schabort said : ‘ At first they seemed quite eager but then I received a letter saying it was not council policy to meet with South African officials . |
| 9 | They thought they were probably road maintenance men from the Cajamarca region . ’ |
| 10 | I mean it 's just bog standard bearings now . |
| 11 | My gran had forgotten about coming over , you know and so we rem , reminded her was n't Christmas eve , the day before Christmas eve , tha you know , to see if she was still coming . |
| 12 | I think it 's just Friday night and he 's yeah , basically . |
| 13 | I 'm afraid I think it 's only junk mail , but it 's addressed to you . ’ |
| 14 | Cohse branch secretary Sheila Bowes said : ‘ I think it 's about time management started to listen to the nurses . |
| 15 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 16 | Sparc chip set house Nimbus Technologies Inc last week was getting set to acknowledge what is already street gossip : that Cypress Semiconductor Corp , or rather its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , got Nimbus off the ground with an initial ‘ joint development ’ investment round about $1.5m . |
| 17 | That 's not to say there was n't child abuse now , I I have my own thoughts and in my own feelings feel that there could have been some child abuse especially ch sexual abuse . |
| 18 | Approximately that now I 've it 's very y'know woolly , most people do n't bother but you should really do the scatter plot to see whether a relationship is linear as opposed to something like that which would be curvier linear . |
| 19 | However , a spokesman said it was not police policy to discuss the occupation of people helping with inquiries . |
| 20 | I struggled up to show I was n't wolf meat . |
| 21 | This year , the company intends to move further in the direction of computer networking and professional services , which is where Braun believes there is still market growth . |
| 22 | Isabel had to admit he was not messenger material , but she was beginning to question the wisdom of her panicked flight from the castle . |
| 23 | When the outburst comes it is very effective.The lyricism of Tennyson 's poetry is magnificent . |