Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the available evidence from the questions expressly asked there is little chance of disconfirming this view , although one may be inclined to regard it with a degree of scepticism . |
| 2 | ‘ I only realised he was any good when he was 13 and went down to the English schools Under-14 championships at Queens one Monday . |
| 3 | Not only has there been strong opposition to trade unionism and lack of support for union security at enterprise level by employers ( particularly those in small , paternalistic firms ) but trade unions have also not regarded the negotiation of agreements and protection of immediate job interests — certainly at plant level — as their central concern . |
| 4 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 5 | The company behind the scam , Mandela , are refusing to fill in any more details , however , so we can only assume it 's another cash-in wind up . |
| 6 | This does n't necessarily mean they were practising infanticide , although some of them may have been . |
| 7 | You could have you could have open land within within a village , it does n't necessarily mean it 's open countryside . |
| 8 | He conceded there was less reading of ‘ non-purposeful ’ material , such as comics , but added that this did not necessarily mean there was less literacy . |
| 9 | ‘ We get a lot of day trippers motoring around the Downs and they see the signs for Brands Hatch and they automatically put their foot down thinking they 're bleedin' Formula One drivers . ’ |
| 10 | She did n't want to swim this afternoon , but only said it was slight indigestion . ’ |
| 11 | I only wish there was some way we might learn the verdict . ’ |
| 12 | She only wished she was any good at the game herself , which unfortunately she was n't . |
| 13 | Everyone 's attention was fixed on him and he would obviously strengthen HE 's Executive Council if he could be persuaded to join . |
| 14 | Whether the public will want to keep on swallowing it is another matter . |
| 15 | Why do you go on believing he 's some sort of great big nome in the sky ? ’ |
| 16 | But I do not think it is this threat alone which explains the sick feeling of dread — rather like the feeling of a man who knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight — which clouds the prospect of a Labour victory . |
| 17 | Do you not think it 's worthwhile booking the rest of the year 's meetings or shall we do it as we carry on |
| 18 | ‘ I do not think there is any element of risk in British Land , or companies such as Land Securities , MEPC , Hammerson , Great Portland or Slough . |
| 19 | I do not think there is any question of them having embroidered on these events in any way . |
| 20 | I do not think there is any doubt that high unemployment is related to high crime rates in certain parts of the borough . |
| 21 | ‘ I do not think there is any punishment in this world that would fit what they have done . |
| 22 | ‘ I do not think there is any comfort to be gained from definition in this branch of the law . |
| 23 | Last night David Pipe , the Jockey Club 's director of public affairs , said : ‘ I do not think there is any cause for alarm . |
| 24 | I do not think there is any difference of opinion as to its being a general rule that , where any injury is to be compensated by damages , in settling the sum of money to be given for reparation of damages you should as nearly as possible get at that sum of money which will put the party who has been injured , or who has suffered , in the same position as he would have been in if he had not sustained the wrong for which he is now getting his compensation or reparation . |
| 25 | I just thinks it 's human nature . |
| 26 | ‘ I do not know what is this action you refer to . ’ |
| 27 | Applying Firth , it is irrelevant that the victim did not know there was any liability . |
| 28 | I think I just assumed he was that sort of person and night-time did that to him . |
| 29 | It is impossible exactly to define what is modern dance because the body is the same that has danced for hundreds of years . |
| 30 | ‘ What I just told you is straight reportage . |