Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that if I suddenly start feeling pains anywhere in my body , I do n't have to worry that it is the side effects of drugs , as , regrettably , some athletes do . |
| 2 | Treaty language suggesting applicability to all States has to be measured against pronouncements denying that it was the intention of the signatories to create third party rights . |
| 3 | Erm I suggest that it is the fox because we 're told it has a sudden sharp hot stink the fox . |
| 4 | 20 ) were seen , above , to be comparable at an integral level of stylistic affinity ; but the size and shaping of the tesserae in mosaic 7 , its large areas of background filling in buff-brown tesserae , and the absence of the most significant border decorations visible in mosaics B and C , suggest that it was the work of an essentially different group of craftsmen . |
| 5 | is twofold really , one for me to introduce myself to you and let you know that I am the representative that 's with Friends Provident that will |
| 6 | In the first debate , ‘ top-down ’ makes the international system wholly dominant and ‘ bottom-up ’ retorts that it is the sum of what nations do . |
| 7 | Mary Kinnock , a district nurse , cherished him , and pushed him hard ; he could never doubt that he was the centre of her world , and therefore , rightfully , the centre of other people 's . |
| 8 | Night after night while I was asleep , I shouted that I was the murderer of William , Justine , and Henry . |
| 9 | Neo-classical economists have stressed that it is the increase in the real money supply and the real balance effect which will lead to an expansion of aggregate demand and so eliminate ERW unemployment . |
| 10 | The fiduciary controls on managerial discretion provide that it is the duty of the directors to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 11 | So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future . |
| 12 | How did it feel to know that you were the instrument and the cause of something so enormously and comprehensively dreadful ? |
| 13 | In the Third Act he realizes that the world is against him but he is intelligent enough to know that he is the victim of his own weaknesses . |
| 14 | You will think me discourteous , but perhaps I may excuse myself by explaining that it is the discourtesy of grief . ’ |
| 15 | In fact , so committed is RUC management to the principle of community policing that , in addition to specialist units , the new code of professional ethics specifies that it is the duty of all policemen and women to understand ‘ those particular community needs and problems which can cause concern and friction ’ , and be sensitive to ‘ the various public viewpoints , including historical and cultural backgrounds ’ . |
| 16 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 17 | Months later , they were to discover that she was the aunt of an Ulster Unionist MP at Westminster . |
| 18 | Tamar had been dismayed to discover that it was the custom , among the upper classes , to employ a wetnurse for babies . |
| 19 | How can the hon. Gentleman say that it is the Government 's fault when someone does not pay taxes ? |
| 20 | I only say that it is the route of the Council of Europe that has been recognised by the Community as leading to Community membership itself . |
| 21 | Acknowledge that it is the will of God for His children to have health and strength to carry out His work . |
| 22 | Simply observing vervets rush into trees when somebody gives a tonal call does not guarantee that it was the call that did it . |
| 23 | Indeed , in an essay which may be read as a gloss on aspects of S/Z ( with which it is roughly contemporary ) , ‘ The Death of the author ’ , Barthes writes that it is the reader , and not the author , who constitutes the only focus for the multiple writings and codes of which the text is made up : ‘ The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost ’ ( 1977b : 148 ) . |
| 24 | She was more startled than ever to find that it was the moon , full and bright , riding the night sky like a silver chariot . |
| 25 | You will find that this can not be pulled out in error ( who has not picked a bit of wool out only to find that it was the marker ! ) and it can either be pulled up tight later as a permanent marker or pulled out and used again . |
| 26 | I found that it is the planning of this , that it 's also choir rehearsals , and certain school activities that do clash . |
| 27 | Until quite recently it was considered that it was the crust that attained equilibrium with respect to the mantle , but it is now known that isostatic adjustments also involve the rigid mantle forming the lower part of the lithosphere . |
| 28 | I sometimes forget that it is the day of the year when I was made a bishop . |
| 29 | ‘ You forget that I am the receiver of confessions . ’ |
| 30 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |