Example sentences of "[be] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes . |
| 2 | THE only way men could be relied on to take the proposed male contraceptive pill would be if it enlarged certain parts of their anatomy in the way the female pill enlarges breasts . |
| 3 | ‘ For a friar I am very quick , My Lord Coroner , and so would you be if you drank less claret ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Or would be if you had white hair and put on a bit of weight . |
| 5 | ‘ I think you know how serious it could be if she lost this child . |
| 6 | Or it used to be until I got that letter . |
| 7 | But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none . |
| 8 | I wonder how long it will be before we take that train again ? |
| 9 | We go the long way ; who knows how long it will be before we come this way again ? |
| 10 | The question then arises as to how specific the Community legislation has to be before it precludes national legislation . |
| 11 | The answer lies in a thermodynamic state function known as free energy or the Gibbs function , G. This function is related to equation ( 21 ) which , expressed in general terms , is If we multiply this equation through by — T we obtain |
| 12 | See what they 've got ta se think about is if they want double glazing , which is another er two or three thousand pound ! |
| 13 | Is it a question of economics , because if they were more efficient , that is if they used less fuel to get a given mileage , is it a question of the companies involved being unwilling to put the money into the development costs , or would cars that are more efficient cost a lot more money to buy ? |
| 14 | ‘ The only way that 's going to happen is if it receives wholehearted support from the clubs , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Erm , the idea is we 're gon na have that block all we 're gon na do is make er this is very ambitious plan here erm we 're gon na have the problem with the drive at the moment is if you put one car in it 's always the car |
| 16 | All the girls say he 's beautiful , and I suppose he is if you like that sort of thing , the long , thin , colourless type . |
| 17 | Erm the whole question here is if you have more money in a sense , what do you spend it on ? |
| 18 | The only time this fabric would offend is if you want some guts from your environment . |
| 19 | That 's if we take any notice of them eh ? |
| 20 | That 's if we take any notice of them |
| 21 | That 's if it had any sockets upstairs ! |
| 22 | Impulsively now , she put her hand out and laid it on his , saying quietly , ‘ I 'm going to miss you all over again , Ben , that 's if I take this place . ’ |
| 23 | Erm If it 's if you want some kind of a guideline I think last year I ca n't remember but I think we I think last year we actually had to ask because the parish could n't support it totally . |
| 24 | I 'll have money enough to pay you by spring , Christian — that 's if you think three pounds ten shillings an acre is a fair price . ’ |
| 25 | The child from the fish and chip shop can only end up running Liberty 's if he has some idea of what Liberty 's is . |
| 26 | THis is because they contain special matting agents , which cause the varnishes to dry with an irregular surface , so that light is reflected at random angles . |
| 27 | It is because they substitute half-baked faith for genuine effort and hold out promises of intervention in the world 's affairs on payment . |
| 28 | One might surmise that this is because they represent elemental features from which all other structures are compounded and so constitute basic units of mental processing from which all learning proceeds . |
| 29 | This is because they generate excessive amounts of data and information that must be interpreted by specialists . |
| 30 | This is because they select inappropriate bait , mainly twigs and leaves . |