Example sentences of "[unc] [pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year .
2 And s and that 's really the main reason why this new sector has been brought up , it 's been ca it 's called first call
3 Erm seven comes headed satisfactory access , but can I remind you of the County Council 's er criterion which w which is Have good access or be able to provide good access , to the primary road network , but avoid unacceptable traffic consequences on any single part of the network .
4 Er who 's doing next week ?
5 Sunday in November and er she 's doing one evening in ninety three .
6 Because you get er great leverage on this thing and it er you 're cutting mild steel bars you see .
7 Oh yes , and he could get executor , he was executor for one poor old lady old Mrs used to live on the causeway er er er , the first little house you know where the th th , er you 're coming this way on the causeway there 's The Elms , ai n't they ?
8 Well the situation there is firstly there is little point in shouting and identifying ourselves if , firstly there 's nobody in the flat , or secondly er we 're giving advance warning that we are coming along the corridor to a possible location , er of somebody with a firearm .
9 First of all , there are far more accountants around now than there are rats and er we were having great difficulty in getting hold of the rats and I thought , well that sounds logical .
10 And er they 're doing some market research , this is what it 's about , the national treasury of spoken English , a group of reading dictionary publishers and universities are participating in a government funded research project to compile a national treasury of the English language .
11 like for a kick off , he went down to the skip last Saturday , the tip , we had , er he was clearing out the back yard , he took some rubble and boxes and things down there , and he was talking to the fellow there they said oh , he said er they were shutting this skip , er they 're moving it down the road and you 'll have to pay , you 'll have to pay to tip your rubbish
12 Oh the they 're keeping that wood !
13 Erm you said when we left er where we left off last time , about erm about people and how delighted the they were to get second hand clothing .
14 I believe that the House should insist er that the not only should th should be a majority o of local of of of local authority members , but these so-called independent members are really quite superfluous to requirements they are p they are creating another kind of semi-quango , they are concentrating more power into the hands of the Home Secretary and for that reason , although I do not wholly agree with the amendments that have been put down , I shall certainly vote for them all .
15 Erm I 'm asking this question to e satisfy myself that these changes and reduction in costs are not the result of political expediency as opposed to er a genuine assessment of what the risk in the change environment is likely to be .
16 Erm I 'm attending this Doctor , I go back at the end of the .
17 The year erm which was done last year myself , self assessment and that I 've actually my form tutor to suggest it and they are reasonably positive , like sixty five percent to move into
18 Right the medical side erm we are producing medical practice booklets all right .
19 Erm we are making more money in favour to them and our resolution is to ensure that even a , a profile of work to be carried out , so that it 's quite clear what 's been done , the time scale , the er the amount of resources that is going to be needed .
20 The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter .
21 I remember having a problem like that where we were erm we had a , a load of erm we were watering that material it was warmed , we thought of course would be alright but they did er , they were quite sensitive to it and they looked quite miserable .
22 I do n't know , I imagine that it 's something tha they 're construct some work of art they
23 And erm in between the wars , erm it was made double track , er up towards over there .
24 Er the h it 's called hyperbaric oxygen .
25 This is not for er any sort of This i I 'm doing this talk here for erm Stanley 's daughter who 's at er college , and she likes to hear the sound of my voice when I 'm sober .
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