Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in China a few years ago and was fascinated to discover there was one bicycle for every thirty Chinese , and you see they 're not going to be distributed very equally are they ? |
| 2 | The changing vegetation at the water 's edge has turned what was open water into , firstly , a wetland habitat dominated by alder and sallow trees , and then , as the ground has dried out , into mixed woodland . |
| 3 | It 's expected to discuss it 's future involvement , if any , in negotiations with the South African government on power sharing , if the government does n't take emphatic steps to stop the violence . |
| 4 | THE Richard Minnis Trophy , the annual match between the Private Greens League and the Kenilworth Club in Dublin has reached it 's 50th Anniversary . |
| 5 | The results , though , are generally unimpressive , mainly because — as on the Isle of Dogs , for example — lack of an overall masterplan has meant there is little cohesiveness . |
| 6 | A task force appointed by the government to balance the needs of tourism and the environment , has held it 's first meeting in Westminster Abbey . |
| 7 | The fact that attempts are made to restore it is positive proof . |
| 8 | If we 'd won it was 2nd place . |
| 9 | He 'd raised his arms in a gesture of possession , and , even though she 'd known it was all part of a beautifully sculpted drama , Shannon had felt a thrill deep inside , as though she too were part of the kingdom the Viking had taken for his own . |
| 10 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 11 | Right , now we 've got to see which is hard cheese and which is |
| 12 | I 'd like to think there was another way , but the sickening sound of another big bomb , news of sectarian shootings and the threat of more television exposures of the State 's powerlessness are getting to me . |
| 13 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 14 | All you seem to think it 's bloody Halloween come back again . |
| 15 | Yes , I was going to say there is one problem . |
| 16 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 17 | Some Budweiser , nice one , get down this , comes back with two bottles says go and get another one , go get another , go on , once my dad starts going it 's fucking wonderful , he do n't stop buying it 's great stuff . |
| 18 | Control alt it 's deleted segment but we do n't really need that . |
| 19 | erm , but I mean I , I was given to believe he was full time he never said oh it 's so many days |
| 20 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You should have said you were that way , Monica , ’ said Jan . |
| 22 | I would have said she was medium height slim build , possibly |
| 23 | You may have noticed they are all tree oils ! |
| 24 | What it should have told them is that terrorism makes it harder , not easier , to gain a hearing in a democracy . |
| 25 | Roman Catholics ‘ should be received with lenity and all meekness , not to quench with delays the feeble smoke of conformity which seemeth to breathe from them , but to build wheresoever there is any foundation ’ . |
| 26 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 27 | There is no reason to think that Anselm would have thought there was any contradiction between personal humility and the display of the greatness of his office : quite the contrary , humility and grandeur met in the exercise of his function as a ruler . |
| 28 | He must have thought there was some likelihood of angels being there , because he describes how he put out his arms in the darkness and made a grab , at thin air as it turned out . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's no way they could have known there was another letter . ’ |
| 30 | He must have known there was bad feeling . ’ |