Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do n't lie , if you 're having a bad month , or you 're having a bad week or you have n't had any sales , put it in the computer , because that 's going to be identified , it comes up on here , so that your manager can help you . |
| 2 | For the advertiser who is concerned as to whether he or she is getting a good deal from an agency or media specialist , companies such as Media Audits provide a service that compares the buying performance of different advertisers and their agencies in similar markets and media . |
| 3 | Bean , writing a year later in 1984 , supported this view by saying that ‘ when the adopted child is an older child who has already acquired a cultural background and a set of cultural responses , these will have to be unlearned if he or she is to acquire a new cultural identity ’ . |
| 4 | The trainee feels that he or she is flying a real aircraft , and can see the view from the cockpit just as if ( s ) he were actually approaching the runway at a particular airport . |
| 5 | He or she is doing a certain thing and we interpret it in a certain way which elicits a given emotion . |
| 6 | If the runner can be told exactly why he or she is doing a particular type of training , what bodily changes it will bring about and how he or she should run to achieve them , then those 15 minutes a day of quality training are more than enough . |
| 7 | If the ulcer had healed , the patient started a maintenance regimen of ranitidine ( 150 mg at night ) otherwise he or she was given an additional supply of ranitidine ( 300 mg at night ) . |
| 8 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 9 | Some companies farm out elderly executives to a convenient backwater where they are given a lofty title — Senior Vice President in Charge of Something Unimportant . |
| 10 | These implementations were at Nomura ( a global securities company ) , the Japanese Patent Office ( where they are implementing a paperless application and investigation system ) , and NTI ( their multi-vendor integrated architecture for their own internal operation ) . |
| 11 | Now Gwynedd County Council have announced their intention to commission a comprehensive feasibility study into re-opening the whole line in conjunction with the 1964 Comp[any who have steadfastly maintained their stance of wanting to start reconstruction from the southern end where they are operating a three-quarter of a mile line along former British Rail land beside Porthmadog station . |
| 12 | Some fundholders did switch hospitals for some specialties where they were promised a better or a cheaper service . |
| 13 | They returned to North Coates where they were to share a rented house with another officer and his wife . |
| 14 | And if he can really put the icing on the cake of this remarkable recovery story by winning , he will be the toast of the Portsmouth greyhound racing fraternity — where he 's become a great favourite over the years . |
| 15 | But Prince has floated free of grassroots or use value , and ascended to an aristocratic , aerial domain of licence and luxury — where he 's instigated a promiscuous chaos of stylistic miscegenation . |
| 16 | They left , somewhat sheepishly , and followed Finnan into a tiny , grubby kitchen where he was setting a water-filled pot over the fire . |
| 17 | In 1867 Newman Hall visited America , or at least the northern states , where he was assured a warm welcome because of his support of the North during the recent war . |
| 18 | From 1957 Rollo and his wife Alice came to London every year , where he was elected an honorary member of the Double Crown Club ( whom he addressed , on WA Dwiggins ) and the Wynkyn de Worde Society . |
| 19 | Five minutes before kick-off , Leicester goalkeeper Carl Muggleton went down in agony with a slipped disc and Hoult was ordered from the stand , where he was eating a hot dog . |
| 20 | In fact , he rarely came out of Bath and Wells , where he was proving a conscientious diocesan , predictably of a brisk administrative turn of mind . |
| 21 | He may have reassured himself of the contnuing power of his charisma during recent tours of the south , where he was given a rapturous welcome . |
| 22 | He was taken to the hospital by police , where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious . |
| 23 | At a purely practical level , the anarchist and socialist press provided a forum for the dissemination of information about the October revolution , where it was given an enthusiastic reception . |
| 24 | Where it was melting a huge pile of boulder clay was built up , as a terminal moraine . |
| 25 | And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death . |
| 26 | Khovanshchina is so : you see what happens , someone is coming or someone is angry or unhappy or he 's making a political move or it 's coming from the heart . |
| 27 | ‘ You know my nightmare — that I am seeing a dead boy ( whom I never recognize ) on the ground at my feet . |
| 28 | I have stressed that I am taking a particular linguistic phenomenon , deixis , and examining its occurrences and behaviour in a specific genre . |
| 29 | I know that I am providing an unusual excuse for those dastards interested in luring some member of the opposite sex into a dark and confined space , but I would be glad to hear about experimental results . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |