Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly they are grouping themselves into multiple retail chains , as can be seen from Table 11.10 . |
| 2 | So they can enter the secondary schools and they 're selling it to these young kids that just do n't know any better . |
| 3 | We 're doing it for this little orphanage and it 's all terrible exciting . |
| 4 | But then I really do n't know it 's right for me to be helping you with such dubious assignations . ’ |
| 5 | In addition to the enormous amount you will learn on the day , you will be given lots of helpful written information to take home , and have the opportunity to buy relevant Domino publications . |
| 6 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 7 | The problem will be to find one without any geological ‘ boobytraps ’ , such as heavy faulting , without generating a political furore . |
| 8 | ‘ What fun it would be to send it to that silly old Boldwood ! ’ laughed Liddy . |
| 9 | Come on , I 'm taking you to that little café down the road — what 's it called now ? ’ |
| 10 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 11 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 12 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 13 | Johnny 's words had left her feeling inadequate , as though he were presenting her with some enormous challenge which she did not feel equal to meet . |
| 14 | Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 16 | She had charm , a way of making you feel that you were joining her in some harmless conspiracy . |
| 17 | Their hatred of exploitation and their knowledge of western capitalism and the socialist movement it had brought into being led them to utopian socialist illusions . |
| 18 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |
| 19 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 20 | The patterns of public accountability in the British constitutional set-up are extremely complex , and all I have been able to do here is to alert you to some key issues of relevance to the subject matter of this book . |
| 21 | That is absolutely incorrect , and I take it that the hon. Gentleman is dissociating himself from Labour Front Bench policy on the Maastricht settlement . |
| 22 | The next step — and this is the one the BMC wanted to impress most forcefully on our visitors — is to terrify yourself on some dripping mass of rock devoid of adequate protection . |
| 23 | I am not underestimating him because that would be a serious mistake , but the greater our fear the more difficult it is to view him with that clinical detachment so vital for survival . |
| 24 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp 's NTT Mobile Communications Network is to split itself into nine regional units : its present headquarters in Tokyo will become the group 's parent company , which will wholly own the equity of the eight subsidiaries , and the move is intended to improve efficiency and competitiveness in the fight with its biggest domestic rival Daini Denden Inc , which has no unit in Tokyo and Tokai area , which together account for half the population . |
| 25 | the only way to do it is to split it into two continuous bits . |
| 26 | The difficulty in the case of shares is to fit them into any normal legal category ; but one is unlikely to be left in doubt whether something is or is not a share . |
| 27 | The alternative , when plutonium is seen as a fuel , is to load it into existing Russian reactors , unused to the stuff and already regarded as unsafe by outsiders . |
| 28 | That one 's get it like that red well that number 's moved . |
| 29 | Let us assume as an example that a gene is isolated which in several mutated forms predisposes for schizophrenia . |
| 30 | A brief view of the illuminated Savoy and there she is , the mother of parliaments , dwarfed by the skyline but still historic Westminster , and Big Ben is greeting us with seven clear chimes and the tears are pouring down my face . |