Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 2 | It is perhaps worth recording here , particularly for the benefit of Alan , to whom I am copying this letter , that the idea , while being born out of a most pleasant lunch with Terri Peralla , stands up well in my view to critical evaluation . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course the poetry 's no good , ’ grumbled a friend to whom I was praising this volume . |
| 4 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
| 5 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 6 | If he does become prime minister ( with the aforementioned majority ) , I will eat one copy of the edition of the New Statesman in which you are reading this article . ’ |
| 7 | So you would feel probably the best mechanism would be the appointment of somebody who is given that responsibility and solely that responsibility of reporting and looking after the interest of the deferred pensioners . |
| 8 | The experience of coming from the north-east of England is an important influence on my views on the issue with which we are dealing this morning . |
| 9 | In the field of intellectual work Rosenbrock has questioned the underlying assumptions of the manner in which we are developing computer-aided design systems . |
| 10 | This is not a dispute in which we are seeking more pay for solicitors . |
| 11 | I am conscious of the late payment problem , which is something to which we are devoting great attention . |
| 12 | We made special provision for the homelessness problem last year , and my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for housing will be making a further announcement in the next day or two about the homeless figures for which we are making additional provision in the current year . |
| 13 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 14 | Endometriosis is a condition in which there is functioning endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity . |
| 15 | People did n't use to do that twenty thirty forty years ago so erm child sex abuse is very much on the agenda , both of professionals and also on the agenda of people suffering from sort of distress for which they are receiving professional help because um that 's one of the things which um I think more nowadays than before you find people encouraged to look for . |
| 16 | Unless anyone should mistake my purpose , I say clearly that , provided that local authorities , at the point of change in April 1993 , have the power to spend that which they are spending this year , plus inflation , not one meal on wheels , not one old people 's home , not one teacher — in fact not one public provision — need be cut . |
| 17 | They fasted for a further 2 hours , after which they were allowed normal food and fluid intake . |
| 18 | He was energetic in the struggle for Solidarity and finished his parliamentary career as a Solidarity-sponsored senator ( for his native Silesia ) in the newly re-established Senate to which he was elected last summer . |
| 19 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 20 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 21 | Reason told him that was all nonsense ; but reason was being steadily eroded by a terrible unnatural fear over which he was losing all control . |
| 22 | He became a liveryman of the Poulterers ' Company in 1767 , and in the same year was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company , in which he was to achieve some eminence . |
| 23 | This is illustrated by the case of the old person who wishes to go into residential care , who is fit and well but wants the comfort and security which it is considered such care will provide . |
| 24 | Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable . |
| 25 | Ltd. v. The Irish Land Commission ( Case 182/83 ) [ 1984 ] E.C.R. 3677 , in which it was held that article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 26 | Dr. Saxby tells me you 're having some discomfort , and a smaller dosage will help . |
| 27 | To avoid the trouble she had been obliged to invent a friend , a suicidal woman friend with whom she was staying that night . |
| 28 | So she knows she may hear from you I am copying this letter to . |
| 29 | I 've known loads of people who who are working full time , and they come home Friday and the go out Friday night , stand up at the bar , and drink twenty pints or whatever , ten pints . |
| 30 | ‘ Was n't it you she was teasing that time , when the bees came out ? |