Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When these babies are diagnosed there 's a mad panic everywhere I can tell you , phone calls everywhere , people rushing round . |
| 2 | Once the A-CONFORMOLINES and E-VALUES data have been prepared it is a simple matter to use different electives in the F-MAP package in order to alter particular settings , such as the number of shading levels , the choice of class interval ( equal width , equal number of zones or user-specified ) , or the type of symbolism used to define the shading pattern . |
| 3 | After a selection has been made it is a useful exercise to spell out — to oneself as much as to others — why that selection has been made . |
| 4 | A hundred to the power of half , Add a half cos we 're multiplying which is a hundred to the power one , which is just a hundred . |
| 5 | We 're told it 's a low-cost desktop with a built-in PCI bus . |
| 6 | Dalgliesh said : ‘ You 're assuming there 's an absolute morality independent of time or circumstance . ’ |
| 7 | Indeed , he opposed rigid grounding in English grammar and urged that Latin be taught by the direct method , as it would have been had it been a living language . |
| 8 | ‘ I am told it is a different skill . |
| 9 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 10 | I own a 1979 Range Rover , chassis number 35857365F , and have been told it is a right hand drive export model . |
| 11 | I 've been told there 's no real translation in any language for the English conception of fair , which is oblique justice redefined for every circumstance . |
| 12 | Brought together again for the conference , which starts in december , most are agreed it 's a good idea . |
| 13 | When you are born you are an uncivilised little savage with bad habits and no manners and it is the job of the GIANTS ( your parents and your teachers ) to train you and discipline you . |
| 14 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 15 | ‘ We are saying she 's a Glaucous but not swearing it until customs say she 's safe , ’ said Robin , who is trying to enlist Prince Charles in the struggle . |
| 16 | We are saying it is the best we can do and we must judge how it is operating . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Now we are saying it is the worst since the 1930s . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The way Liverpool and Everton are performing who 's a big club ? |
| 19 | I have been saying he is an absolute ‘ bag o shite ’ since day one ( I was so mystified by the signing I was moved to write to the local rag — and they printed it ! ! ) . |
| 20 | By the time Don Black , lyricist of Tell Me On A Sunday and Aspects of Love , and one of the funniest men in the Western Bloc , came in to the studio to be interviewed I was a frothing heap . |
| 21 | Members of HEAD were killed by the military during the Marcos years indicating clearly that HEAD was seen to be challenging what was an intolerable situation . |
| 22 | Particularly , you know it has to be said there is a particular age class background and so on and so forth . |
| 23 | She will be pilloried for making this record , she will be told it is an ill-advised change of musical direction , foolish to do yet more cover versions when she has not established herself as a songwriter , madness to be so outspoken , dubbed Mrs Bonkers of Ireland — by people she cared little about . |
| 24 | He is as daft as a brush and had to be persuaded ours was a worthwhile cause . |
| 25 | They begin with a lukewarm rendition of their second single ‘ Suzanne ’ and exude a self-conscious hesitancy , although I 'm told they 're a roaring juggernaut of assurance compared to their earlier live self . |
| 26 | I 'm told it 's a splendid building . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm told it 's the 43rd single release off the album they said they 'd split up after if it did n't outsell Guns N' Roses ( or something ) . |
| 28 | it 's just , this lot have voted for them again , I 'm going what are the red ones ? |
| 29 | Dearest I 'm saying it 's a dark colour . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm saying it 's an interesting theory . |