Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The festival is the brainchild of performer , director and playwright Cordelia Ditton and freelance arts administrator Dominic D'Angelo , both of whom are determined that the overall tone will be celebratory and upbeat . |
| 2 | ‘ I am hoping that the Labour Group leader comes back and says : ‘ Prove it . ’ |
| 3 | I am suggesting that the British crime survey is very important . |
| 4 | For instance , ‘ I am persuaded that a good gaoler can more easily manage his prisoners by humane attention than by severity and heavy irons ’ ( Howard 1792 : 145 ) ( writing about Maidstone County Gaol ) . |
| 5 | Indeed , I am persuaded that the central criteria against which I have had to measure these applications will be met , and that patient care will be advanced very considerably . |
| 6 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
| 7 | I am arguing that a common ground exists between theists and atheists , where each exchanges different interpretations of reality and understands each other 's views . |
| 8 | At the end of the public road is a notice prohibiting cars from going further , and I am told that the new owners of the Killilan estate are enforcing this ban fairly strictly but not in all cases . |
| 9 | I am told that the tapered polyester bristles have a different shape cross-section to conventional bristles , octagonal in fact . |
| 10 | I am told that the Chinese name for them ( the shrub comes from China ) is ‘ cat droppings ’ . |
| 11 | and I 'm hoping that the local authority will start coming across with a bit of work for me . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm told that an olive tree ’ , says Mr Pattea wonderingly , ‘ will produce for 400 years . ’ |
| 13 | Well I do n't I was suggesting we were becoming one but I was suggesting that the Prime Minister thought this is desirable . |
| 14 | The boxer romped down the drive after me as I was leaving and the old man looked at him with undisguised admiration . |
| 15 | Again , there were difficulties with Equity when I was selected and the whole thing had to go to arbitration because the company stood out for the casting it wanted . |
| 16 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 17 | cos Jo got a picture of my head when I was sleeping and a close up |
| 18 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 19 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 20 | I was told that the local authority were still maintaining an open mind about the possibility of placing the children with the father and that the choice of foster parents made in October was intended to cover the possibility of the children being returned to the father , but also to cover the possibility of a need for the children to be with foster parents for some longer time , in the event of the assessment of the father proving unsatisfactory . |
| 21 | When 1 commented to the hosts of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee ( under whose auspices 1 went ) on the use of steel for guarding the rings , I was told that the full , true installation ( ’ green field ’ ) cost would have been near to £50 million . |
| 22 | My apologies did little to assuage the situation and I was informed that the federal government had ruled against allowing key production personnel to enlist in the armed forces . |
| 23 | from the Personnel department asking for details of what I was offering because the medical reports had now gone to the medical officer . |
| 24 | According to Bueche the polymer molecule may drag along several others during flow and the energy dissipation is then a combination of the friction between the chain plus those which are entangled and the neighbouring chains as they slip past each other . |
| 25 | However , this legislation has been less effective than many of its supporters had wanted and most cases of discrimination against women which are taken before the industrial tribunals do not succeed . |
| 26 | Both categories are dangerous because of the subjective and inadequate forms of assessment which are used and the social , educational and economic effects on those labelled . |
| 27 | However , many of these dogs have not complied with other sections of the law , such as neutering , and more than 600 are no longer alive — including over 100 puppies which were conceived before the Dangerous Dogs Act came into force , but which were not allowed to be sold or given away after the legislation was introduced . |
| 28 | Whig political supremacy aroused not only High Church anxieties about the security of the established Church , but also fears about Whig warmongering and the concomitant high taxation , which were intensified when the new administration began impeachment proceedings against those responsible for the Tory peace of 1713 . |
| 29 | A reset button is also provided , which is pressed if the charging light fails to illuminate . |
| 30 | So the fact that material things are ‘ senseless beings ’ , and hence that the heat which is perceived and the bodily sensation can not be alike , can not constitute a proof that we are not justified in attributing heat and cold to material things . |