Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinctions between them are greater and the guarantee of quality is more uncertain , so you have to rely on experience , advice and a decent shop to help . |
| 2 | Of course , at the end of the day they pay the same for them whether directly or through taxation , but if they pay for them directly , in return for service or as private insurance , then their incentives to work for them are greater and the economy benefits . |
| 3 | Only a proportion of them are successful and the rest must struggle as best they can to obtain mates . |
| 4 | Some of them are American and a subset of them have this risible attitude that they can get away with just making loads of noise and , as long as the audience is in a similarly altered state of mind , no-one will be the wiser . |
| 5 | I mean , suppose I am right and the glass ball did come from Vic 's collection . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , Brabin , J. then introduced an element of uncertainty by continuing to say , ‘ If I am wrong and the defence does apply then I have to decide , have the defendants proved ( the burden being on them ) that the best practicable means has been taken ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'm right and the link is money , who knows most about Wheeler 's financial affairs ? ’ |
| 8 | nine stone seven , I said what you talking about nine stone seven , I 'm eleven and a half stone , not now you 're not she said |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sixteen and a half , Bean . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ When I 've played a few games for Lazio , when I 'm ready and the boss says I am fit to return , I will bring the whole family to Wembley to watch me again . |
| 12 | O I 'm big and I 'm bad and I 'm bold and I 'm free And the world will never see another villain like me |
| 13 | ‘ If someone is innocent and the Press starts printing stuff , the other partner may think ‘ Well , they must have done it ’ . ’ |
| 14 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 15 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 16 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 17 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 18 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 19 | Maybe I was lackadaisical and a bit self-indulgent . |
| 20 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
| 21 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 22 | But I was desperate to convince her that I was sane and the world was mad . |
| 23 | To introduce a more open system of sentence discounts and ask the judge what the maximum sentence could be — this recognises the need of all parties for more certainty about the options which are available and the value of saving the victim from giving evidence and the public from having to bear the cost of an unnecessary trial . |
| 24 | Some see the distinction in terms of a commission which is unlawful and an omission which may not be . |
| 25 | To read the instructions which is paramount and every firework has instructions on . |
| 26 | A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment . |
| 27 | It conforms to the detailed historical evidence which is available and the occurrence of mergers in waves instead of as a continuous process undermines the statistical assumptions on which the former analysis is based . |
| 28 | Rainwater is relatively clean , but at the moment , it falls down drainpipes into the sewage system and is treated which is costly and the water is lost . |
| 29 | When the Beveridge report was debated in the Commons in mid-February 1943 Churchill himself was ill and the government 's case was argued by Sir Kingsley Wood , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , a Conservative , and Sir John Anderson , the Lord President , who was a former civil servant elevated to ministerial rank . |
| 30 | Bless all who are married and every parent and child . |