Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is because six-time major-winner Lee Trevino shares a background with his caddie Willie Aitchison that the two have developed such a close relationship over the years . |
| 2 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 3 | All the craftsmen took a real pride in their work , receiving only one shilling and threepence an hour but still realising how much better off they were than previous generations . |
| 4 | Possibly it was because most people who visited Wilder 's Wilderness expressed the wish to return . |
| 5 | Partly this was due to cost , but mainly it was because French cathedrals are so vast and so lofty , with high vaults of great span , that a steeple became too great an engineering hazard . |
| 6 | For many people birds become an obsession — but for most they are but one part of the whole countryside experience . |
| 7 | This does not seem to be because the UK has more crime , or more serious crime , than comparable countries ; rather it is because more offenders are sent to custody , and for longer periods , in the UK than elsewhere . |
| 8 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 9 | If this sort of account is true to the facts , then it is a consideration against any factual connection of the type Minsky envisaged between conscious access and ‘ reprogramming or debugging ’ , at least it is if lower-level translations normally exist as ( undebuggable ) compilations . |
| 10 | And that 's where we are and this morning . |
| 11 | Now she was where we were and that office junior turned up she would have gone for there and I prob bet she will probably be quite |
| 12 | I 'd like to , just like to say that a woman erm , who can not have children erm and re has got to the end of the road , no medical mirac , miracles can help her , erm , if surrogacy is the only option for her then they 've , these pe , couples like myself have gone through such a long erm struggle to get where they are that any child that 's conceived is gon na be a wonderfully loved childed and explained , everything 's explained to the child as he or she grows up . |
| 13 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 14 | Life-positions throw light on why it is that some people tend to be winners and some losers in life . |
| 15 | Given that this is the case , it is interesting and instructive to reflect on why it is that these people have decided to call us their ‘ clients ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
| 17 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 18 | erm Clevedon , or wherever it is that these guys hang out . |