Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell them I am making a good living , that I can support a child , that I want a baby more than anything , but they refuse . ’ |
| 2 | I I 'm doing a thousand mile a week ! |
| 3 | I I I was delayed a little in that . |
| 4 | You can always tell someone who is using a digital watch . |
| 5 | There is nobody in a stronger position than someone who is doing a good job of work for nothing , especially when his employer is stingy and congenitally idle . |
| 6 | An example of this is where the transaction relates to shares in a company and the firm is a financial adviser to the company , or the firm is advising someone who is contemplating a substantial acquisition of shares in the company . |
| 7 | It envisages those visits being as varied as the need — from the person wanting a four-month placement to work with elderly people in Poland or an adoption agency in Jamaica , to someone who is planning a two-week holiday in California who wants to take off a couple of days to spend them visiting the local branch of the US National Association of Social Workers . |
| 8 | I rasp with the confidence of someone who is offering a constructive alternative , but with the sharp edge of a man who is losing patience . |
| 9 | Police are want particularly to contact someone who was driving a black K-registration car near the green at Writtle at about 3 pm on Wednesday . |
| 10 | We were talking about your career , in which I am taking a fatherly interest . |
| 11 | This year the big attraction at Christie 's summer party was the Badminton Bureau , a truly magnificent piece of furniture for which I was told a special place was built at Badminton House . |
| 12 | The top model turned stuntwoman to film Coca-Cola 's latest Diet Coke commercial , for which she was paid a sparkling £1.8 million . |
| 13 | Over there is our herb garden , and here are some fruit trees , from which we are cultivating a new strain . |
| 14 | The official government tartan is the Black Watch , into which we are weaving a coloured line relating to each of the three Edinburgh galleries , taking the claret of the National Gallery 's walls for ours ’ . |
| 15 | In the field of Religious Studies attention is given to a Theology of Religion in which there is offered a positive and critical evaluation of basic religious concepts and truth-claims in different world religions . |
| 16 | STUDENTS pay ⅕ of the personal community charge for the period during which they are undertaking a full-time course of education . |
| 17 | The methodology in Advance with English leads the learners gradually from exercises in which they are given a great deal of guidance , to ones in which there is almost no guidance . |
| 18 | Around the inner compound of his ranch house , Goldsmith has built a moat in which he is sheltering a large number of crocodiles — a notoriously threatened species . |
| 19 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 20 | In the case of Molla Sayyid Muhammad al-Nakib ( Yavuz Celebi ) , on the other hand , Ata'i merely notes that he started off his career as a kasabat kadi , then turned to the medrese system in which he was given a 40-akce medrese and subsequently worked his way up to the Suleymaniye Darulhadis — probably by this time the premier medrese in the empire to which he was appointed in 1012/1604 : he later became kadi of Eyup and then nakibulesraf . |
| 21 | Then there was no time for further thought , as Buttons , excited by the baying of the hounds and the sound of Lord Deverill 's hunting horn on which he was blowing a thrilling series of quick notes , took hold of his bit and flew . |
| 22 | Walter Legge once said that Karajan was not interested in politics , except of the musical variety , of which he was to become a consummate master . |
| 23 | Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone . |
| 24 | If she was ribbing me she was doing a swell job . |
| 25 | He saw that through them she was imagining a new life . |
| 26 | ‘ I told you you were making a big mistake . ’ |
| 27 | Lizaveta once mended his clothes : when we puzzle over the chance-induced actuality of her murder being so largely left to speak for itself we are creating a false problem by the inertness of our own metaphor . |
| 28 | Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are |
| 29 | While it is a sociological question to ask about the way this came about , the image itself played an important role , one which is given an excellent analysis here . |
| 30 | So we we 're taking a consistent line on existing employment sites , we do want to reuse them but we do recognize that there may be circumstances where that er that is n't the case . |