Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every choreographer must have a motive if he or she is to give proper thought , impetus and significance to the movements made by the dancers whether : they are telling a story ; describing and/or expressing the thoughts behind a theme ; or interpreting music either by expressing personal feelings about the melody and rhythm or by so framing the dance that it parallels the music and reveals its structure . |
| 2 | So , point six erm okay look at the sentences one and two under six , one is apparently ill-formed , herself left , except in I think some Irish dialects actually yes , well it has a rather special meaning where herself is given special status erm in the context , but in normal English , English herself left is ill-formed , but two , Florence saw herself is fine herself is a reflective pronoun refers that herself each other or one another , the other are reflective pronouns . |
| 3 | In fact , there is a view that agencies too opt for long-term foster care instead of adoption with contact where there is continued parental interest . |
| 4 | Japanese owners operated 500 of the 1,300 Asian drift vessels in the Pacific , where there was increasing international pressure to cease driftnet fishing — a practice whereby fine nylon nets were stretched across as much as 60 km of the ocean to a depth of 15 metres , resulting in the unintended death of an estimated 1,000,000 sea birds and 200,000 mammals each year . |
| 5 | where a special area in one housing estate has been set aside for problem families , where they are given daily supervision combined with training and instruction designed to teach them the elements of home craft and mothercraft so that in due course , when they have proved they can manage their affairs , domestic , financial or otherwise , they can return to a better house in a more desirable neighbourhood . |
| 6 | Barry had entered a Florida alcohol abuse centre on Jan. 22 , four days after being arrested in the Vista International Hotel , Washington , where he was filmed smoking crack cocaine in the room of a former girlfriend , Hazel " Rasheeda " Moore [ see p. 37180 ] . |
| 7 | ( I should stress that I am using human size as an imaginary example : I do not know how many genetic loci and alleles are really at work in this case . ) |
| 8 | Your new orders will also confirm that I am to assume overall charge of the investigation . |
| 9 | I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family 's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider . |
| 10 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
| 11 | And like , she has , like , although she 's doing secondary teaching , she has it easier than anybody . |
| 12 | Excuse me I have to say Princess Diana yesterday stunned the world announcing that she is to quit public life . |
| 13 | Suppose a girl under 16 does not wish her parents to know that she is seeking contraceptive advice : the medical profession is divided between those who give priority to partial consent , and others who , in line with the General Medical Council , hold that the principle of professional confidentiality overrides that of parental consent . |
| 14 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 15 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 16 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 17 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 18 | And I would like to think that you 're getting good quality of training , and reasonable accommodation during the training , which you will get . |
| 19 | Alright , because what you 're doing , is that you 're increasing domestic production . |
| 20 | Be sure that the display you are mounting is at the right level for the event and that you are using appropriate material and performers . |
| 21 | Check also that you are getting full movement on the injector pump when you push the throttle to the floor . |
| 22 | It is also your guarantee that you are buying real gold . |
| 23 | The first sign that you are making real progress in learning to fly is that such mishaps become rarer and , eventually , uncommon despite the model not having been changed in any way . |
| 24 | Well , Val I think you are quite right in thinking that you are not alone in feeling let down after purchasing the ‘ wrong ’ computer for your needs and I do agree that you were given poor advice by the store you purchased from . |
| 25 | They 're all wooing us now that we 're playing local music , wanting to introduce us to their artists , sampling us with their product . ’ |
| 26 | That is why we have ensured , through our know-how funds and all the other means at our disposal , that we are providing economic advice and sound advice for training members of the former republics to get on with the job of economic reform . |
| 27 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage , ’ Rowland confesses . |
| 28 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage . |
| 29 | Consequently , the d.c. voltage ( after rectification by D1 and D2 ) which appears at the junction of C5 and R5 will be typically between 1V and 2V ( remember that we are using half-wave rectification ) . |
| 30 | The reduced concentrations of γ-interferon were surprising in view of its involvement in other forms of immunopathology and of the recent finding that there is increased spontaneous production of γ-interferon by lamina propria cells in Crohn 's disease . |