Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you been using anything different from usual ? ’ she asked . |
| 2 | You 're driving me crazy with wanting . |
| 3 | Amongst those who seem to be ‘ changing ’ the most rapidly are people who deserve to be called nothing short of unprincipled opportunists . |
| 4 | I 'm holding you responsible for this young lady . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just that I was surprised that you should be doing something scientific like this . |
| 6 | Since the 1986 Act allows a receiver , even though appointed out of court , to obtain the court 's directions , it is difficult to envisage circumstances in which an application to the court can be justified if the cheaper alternative is available , and the professional adviser who recommended it would be laying himself open to grave risk of criticism . |
| 7 | And of course we 're offering a service of allowing people to choose to come at four rather than six and we are making ourselves accessible to single mothers who perhaps ca n't come out in the evening etcetera . |
| 8 | Too many incidents of neglect , carelessness or thoughtlessness are leaving us vulnerable to opportunist crime or possible prosecution by Health and Safety authorities . |
| 9 | That is what is making it attractive to private buyers , whereas here the Government naively believes the opposite , that privatisation of itself will do the trick . |
| 10 | Ironically , their improvement , coupled with their highly superior resources , is making it difficult for smaller , less well funded schemes to survive . |
| 11 | The other option is to have it resident at all times but is activated only when you want a fax converting . |
| 12 | one of the things that was driving me mad in last part of my career was , I was responsible for documentation , the fuel issues on the , round a thousand of gallons a day . |
| 13 | The traditional way to cook them was fry them alive in hot bacon fat , then add an egg , which had the effect of binding them together . |
| 14 | She was smoking her joint with quick snatches of breath , like a swimmer doing the crawl . |
| 15 | At this stage Castro , at least in public , was holding himself aloof from two disputing tendencies which had emerged from the various parties to the revolution . |