Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I was prepared to set aside time at a future meeting for full discussion , but the clubs felt they did n't want to even talk about the issue any further . |
| 3 | He himself was able to bequeath only plate and household goods , and to request in his will to be buried under a ‘ plain black stone ’ with a simple inscription recording his Christian belief . |
| 4 | There was little to do all day but climb in the old beeches and look out over the forest to see where the smoke plumes were . |
| 5 | And yo yo well how did you know that they 're ready to move then daddy ? |
| 6 | If there was a long line of people number of seven for the seven dwarfs and they were all standing there side by side and they had their hands over there face like so and the altogether , at the same time , in unison they parted the hand to reveal the facial expression that is more of a dramatic experience to people looking than just by standing here . |
| 7 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 8 | Because it 's silly to throw away money on two flats when one would do . ’ |
| 9 | To assess cytokine production in tissues , it is necessary to localise both protein and mRNA . |
| 10 | We have approached this task by focusing on the question of linguistic norms , and it is relevant to recall here Principle 2 ( chapter 1 ) . |
| 11 | I would argue that it is possible to consider both literacy and social change from a perspective which avoids such distinctions and such determinism and which allows us to develop a model from which new and interesting research questions can emerge . |
| 12 | It is important to have both mains electricity and improvements to the harbours at Ballycastle and Church Bay . |
| 13 | Given the straits to which the British economy was reduced in 1947 , when it was necessary to ration even bread and potatoes , an outflow of capital equal to about 8 per cent of national income and nearly equal to total net domestic capital formation ( including stock-building ) is a very extraordinary event . |