Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For the moment , what concerns us is that this government is the product of change extending over several centuries , coming to fruition only in the past century .
2 ‘ What shocked me was that one wall could make such a difference , ’ he said .
3 Consequently , all that embryology tells us is that both areas are part of the neocortex .
4 And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that .
5 What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all .
6 ‘ We did n't get the rub of the green and felt we deserved something , but we got zilch and I think it is because this Villa side are so good .
7 And one of the last holidays I took , and I was on my own , I went to the United States for , and Canada for er the , the six weeks I think it was or eight weeks .
8 However if the glucose is maintained high , in other words if the stimulus is sustained , what we see is a succession of depolarizing spikes , and the reason we see it is because this elevation of free calcium , not only leads to a insulin secretion , it also leads to the opening of calcium activated K channels which tend to hyperpolarize the membrane .
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