Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I I I find it I mean I 'm not going to be sort of holier than thou about it all I mean , perhaps I myself might be tempted er one day . |
| 2 | It should be made clear , however , that , since the matter was obviously one which should be considered by the House as a whole , it would have to be dealt with at the Report Stage . |
| 3 | Or you can say it the other way round That 'll be a negative correlation Now the alternative would be when you plot them you get a circle almost , you get , there appears to be no systematic relationship between the two So what you 'd be tempted to say is , no correlation Now I 'm gon na try and move towards how we might measure , how might we actually measure , get a measure of correlation because what you 'd be able to say is , well they 're more correlated or less correlated . |
| 4 | The Heather he had known on Rhodes was an uncomplicated and instantly likeable young woman : a little gauche perhaps , a little unsure of herself , but essentially only what she might be expected to be . |
| 5 | By its nature , this area — in common with management performance — is not one which can be analysed by the Cartesian methods of economists . |
| 6 | This increased variability is not one which can be handled bureaucratically , claim Sorge et al. , and they have the weight of organisation theory on their side : it implies flexibility , autonomy , and high skill at the operator level . |
| 7 | While this issue is as yet undecided , it is certainly not one which should be forgotten . |
| 8 | Keith Evans ' charge that some American school media centres actually undermined the morale of teachers ( a charge he did not , incidentally , document ) was not one which could be levelled at centres on the Madeley and Codsall model , and their influence was such that many examples existed , at least for periods of time . |
| 9 | Holmes agreed that it was in ‘ the homes of the children ’ that ‘ the source of the trouble so often lies ’ and concluded that ‘ the problem of the dirty school child is not one which could be solved by any enquiry into the School Medical Service ’ . |
| 10 | But , as has been shown , although their proportionate contribution increased over the period it is not something which should be interpreted in wholly optimistic terms . |
| 11 | As we have seen , scientia , or scientific knowledge as the seventeenth century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from an observation-based study of the natural world . |
| 12 | The navy in the nineteenth century may have been an Insurance policy for free trade , but Pax Britannica was not something which could be taken for granted , even by Victorian Britons . |
| 13 | You either have it or you do not — talent is certainly not something which can be taught . |
| 14 | Moreover , industrial structure is not something which can be resolved merely by general debate over a general checklist of factors . |
| 15 | This is not something which can be left to governments or industry ; each one of us must be aware of our own actions — what products we use , how we treat the earth and so on . |
| 16 | In the case of the simple penal code , the essential reason it is in the interest of a firm in this case to carry out the threat of punishment is that it believes that if it does not it itself will be punished . |
| 17 | Er they supported me and canvassed for me when I was putting up , but I ca n't see them going , whereas I can remember the erm the when I was a child going to the , we used to have a fete and it was a politically , I ca n't remember exactly what it would be called , but I know mother and the Guild were always there making the tea and got a stall and they were always in the forefront and they 'd always got their rosettes on . |
| 18 | An instrument of greater sensitivity , and possibly one which can be read more accurately , might be needed . |
| 19 | Hunt 's points were restored and Niki lost three , so that the position was now one which could be contemplated with some equanimity : Niki had dropped down to 52 points and Hunt leapfrogged up to 26 . |
| 20 | More than that , I want you to find out what they could be used for . ’ |
| 21 | Even I itself can be factorised in a variety of ways ; as one example , if J is the square matrix which has units in its secondary diagonal and zeros elsewhere , which we shall call the reversing matrix , then |
| 22 | This is n't something which can be forced , you know . |
| 23 | As Roy Hattersley , himself an opponent of the scheme , reminded journalists yesterday , proportional representation would involve a radical change from one form of democracy to another ; it is n't something which can be taken lightly . |
| 24 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 25 | But we can find among them at least one which can be seen as a direct defence of the tripartite analysis . |
| 26 | Staff at the hospital accept that if parents felt pressured into treating their own children on the wards then they something should be done . |
| 27 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 28 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 29 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |