Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 2 | In other words , was the quality plan sufficiently well completed for you to be able to utilize it ? |
| 3 | Though the members of this genus are in many respects typical ascaridoids , their biology is sufficiently varied for it to be necessary to consider each species separately . |
| 4 | It 's what I expect for you to be able to work , really hard , get your homework done , work hard in your exams , I expect you to go to college . |
| 5 | Both are gigantic construction projects , needing a large number of people to pass through them to be profitable , and with neither of them is the full return projected for a good few years hence . |
| 6 | VISCOUNT CAVE L.C. : No doubt there is an absolute unconditional obligation binding the police authorities to take all steps which appear to them to be necessary for keeping the peace , for preventing crime , or for protecting property from criminal injury ; and the public , who pay for this protection through the rates and taxes , can not lawfully be called upon to make a further payment for that which is their right … |
| 7 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 8 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 9 | In Albert v. Lavin the question posed for the House of Lords was ‘ whether a constable who reasonably believes that a breach of the peace is about to take place is entitled to detain any person without arrest to prevent that breach of the peace in circumstances which appear to him to be proper . ’ |
| 10 | If the Secretary of State is satisfied … that any local education authority … have acted or are proposing to act unreasonably … he may … give such directions … as appear to him to be expedient . |
| 11 | Since then there have been fundamental changes , and few of his principles appear to me to be applicable to the modern Constitution . |
| 12 | You appear to me to be fussy and pedantic . |
| 13 | Forcing values upon another without full discussion of what are to count as rights and duties appear to me to be anti-educational . |
| 14 | He could hardly stand still for the two minutes it took to slip them over his blouse and he shouted at her to be quick , that Ferdinando was waiting to take him rabbit-shooting . |
| 15 | She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid . |
| 16 | I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box , one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead … which should make a difference … should n't it ? |
| 17 | I do n't know I , I would n't be in a position to answer for them to be honest with you . |
| 18 | As Mr Michael Dukakis found to his cost in 1988 , voters equate opposition to the death penalty with being soft on crime , support for it with being tough . |
| 19 | I think forgiveness is extremely difficult and I think you have to have something done against you to be able to forgive . |
| 20 | ‘ He 'll stop people from picking on him for being different . ’ |
| 21 | ( 2 ) At or after the preliminary appointment if there be one , the arbitrator shall fix a date for the dispute to be heard ( unless the parties consent to his deciding it on the statements and documents submitted to him — an unusual course not usually acceptable to the parties or the district judge ) and he shall give such directions regarding the steps to be taken before and at the hearing as may appear to him to be necessary or desirable . |
| 22 | If it does , it would appear to us to be another black hole that formed and then evaporated . |
| 23 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 24 | Her smile seemed to me to be defiant and triumphant and accepting all at once , which was ridiculous since a smile is only a smile : sometimes honest , sometimes forced no more . |
| 25 | This seemed to me to be one of the most perceptive remarks in the essay , about which some elaboration on his part would be of considerable interest . |
| 26 | That seemed to me to be daft , bordering on snobbery . |
| 27 | Neither picture seemed to me to be appropriate , and I could not quite understand why it was necessary for Aunt Louise to retire at all . |
| 28 | I did n't know any boys , except those I met through my sisters , and they seemed to me to be vain , impolite and almost totally inarticulate . |
| 29 | As honest and honourable Russian writers , they seemed to me to be emblematic in some way . |
| 30 | Its potential advantage to British industry seemed to me to be colossal . |