Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having opened the doors an hour late , the stewards proceed to examine in detail every bag and every pocket of Pop Will Eat Itself 's thousand-strong audience , wasting a further 45 minutes of everyone 's time while they play at being customs officers . |
| 2 | Having opened the doors an hour late , the stewards proceed to examine in detail every bag and every pocket of Pop Will Eat Itself 's thousand-strong audience , wasting a further 45 minutes of everyone 's time while they play at being customs officers . |
| 3 | Experts say it 's good news for Rover , which could have been sold off if today 's European Court ruling had gone the other way . |
| 4 | Marsden says there is more change , more uncertainty , than at any time in his 33 years in the fertilizer business . |
| 5 | In 1979 , similarly , Iris Murdoch remarked she was glad Labour lost ; and she was voting Conservative , not without reservations , by the 1980s . |
| 6 | One useful result established there is that eqn ( 7.4 ) can be written as in which the anticipated dependence of curvature on the second derivatives of the metric coefficients is made explicit . |
| 7 | Canetti 's great foe is death and his belief in the power of words to fight it is some kind of myth that motivates his pen . |
| 8 | Howard justified overruling the recommendation saying it was national policy to proceed as quickly as possible with renewable energy projects . |
| 9 | The triumph came as a surprise to many fans … but Ron Pickering knew it was another step to even greater glory . |
| 10 | The cutting tool had a flat front face , like a chisel , and its action meant there was less impedance to the moving diaphragm , so the undulations could be greater . |
| 11 | Observers held their breath as the former Derry City and Shelbourne star took to the pitch for his first game but the thunderous greeting that cascaded down from the Windsor stands proved it was unnecessary caution . |
| 12 | He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't want the lads thinking I 'm some sort of wimp , that ca n't cope with a bit of shock . ’ |
| 14 | That is , where unskilled labour prevailed there was chronic want and deprivation . |
| 15 | Ronnie said it 's all beginning . |
| 16 | On the more nebulous issue of value for money of George Street Research said there was clear evidence , of which the opening quotation forms only a part , that clients do not know what goes into a piece of legal work to justify the fee , other than the fact that the job is done . |
| 17 | Key said there was untapped potential for cycle use to grow if the road environment is to be made more friendly . |
| 18 | Kathleen supposed there was some comfort to be gained from knowing that nobody had ever died of humiliation . |
| 19 | But that 's what I , all these gadgets , when you have these gadgets Marg it 's more fuss taking out the gadget and washing |
| 20 | It is all good quality and every piece carries a special seal to prove it is genuine Madeiran embroidery . |
| 21 | Anyway she left twelve pence on the floor and Gary says whose is this money , said you leave it there , it 's for Enid 's no nobody touch this chuffing twelve pence . |
| 22 | She left twelve pence on the floor and Bill put it in the cubby hole in the fireplace and Gary says whose is this money and Arthur was going to pick it up an'all , he says leave that he says that 's for Enid 's money . |
| 23 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 24 | Although BSC says it is halting production for three weeks because of a sharp drop in demand , unions and all Scottish parties fear the unprecedented break could be a prelude to something much worse . |
| 25 | Your sister says there was some game you played with Terry Place . |
| 26 | In a basket scram it 's three wheel I 've had as many as a hundred and forty pound loaves in a scram to push from to Street up to Road . |
| 27 | By the third day Nigel realized it was boring staying in bed . |
| 28 | This is the only crime for which the judges concede there is sufficient evidence . |
| 29 | Pete says there 's great freedom in the air … you can float to wherever you want to … the sensation is great especially when you are flying on the last wind of the day |
| 30 | Pete says there 's one race to go and that 's at the end of August … he 's in the lead and hopes to win the championship |