Example sentences of "[noun] be [adj] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had some faint ideas about releasing , but David was able to give me some valuable advice on how to go about it . |
| 2 | ‘ Pole positions are important to give you some kind of record against your team mate . |
| 3 | In general , this is a good idea since delay is unlikely to save you any money — and may in fact actually cost you more . |
| 4 | The Dyfed Wildlife Trust people were keen to show us more . |
| 5 | Even a Riddick Bowe victory over Holyfield next week is unlikely to make it any easier to give Lewis a home run . |
| 6 | Even a Riddick Bowe victory over Holyfield next week is unlikely to make it any easier to give Lewis a home run . |
| 7 | As we made our way through 1944 the advancing Allied forces were able to give us more room — by that I mean there was more Allied occupied ( and therefore less hostile ) territory for us to fly over in order to get to our targets . |
| 8 | Naff plebeian drugs , junk food , hoary sexism , a love of trash culture … hip hop and hardcore share all these , but where hip hop still has a guiding notion of cool ( both music and style are minimal ) neo-hardcore is prepared to LET IT ALL HANG OUT horribly ; the corset of cool has been ruptured and all manner of banished and forbidden rock memories have sprawled free … grotesquerie embraced as a defiant gesture against the sound track of yuppie culture — sleek , chic , designer pop-soul . |
| 9 | Jean Henderson , about whom her daughter was able to give me many details , was perhaps unusual in her great thirst for reading . |
| 10 | Mrs Goreng was able to volunteer them some ( absolutely correct ) tourist information . |
| 11 | And the slick export companies and landowners are anxious to keep it that way in order to retain total flexibility in hiring , firing and wage levels . |
| 12 | They began farming three years ago , when loans were easy to get and their bank was happy to lend them all they needed . |
| 13 | The Fontanellatesi had a good sense of humour , which helped us to keep up our morale ; one rather large , well-educated lady called Fiora Gandini was able to make us all laugh . |
| 14 | Nina Clarey was the only one at OBEX who knew that her sister had once been engaged to the medical officer , and Rachel was anxious to keep it that way . |