Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] is [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But right now , all I want is to lead a normal life . ’ |
| 2 | And backs away , with what I believe is called a shiteating grin . |
| 3 | Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year . |
| 4 | The road that they have created I think is having a damaging effect on the team and is making it more difficult for us to get the results . |
| 5 | The last thing you want is to start an involved conversation because when you come to do it for real , it can all seem a bit stale . |
| 6 | ‘ Because what I am asking you to do is become the paid companion to la Principessa . ’ |
| 7 | Again , yo you , the figure staying the same , all you do is to move a decimal point two places . |
| 8 | The first one is for producing diatonic sus4 type chords and the formula is ‘ substitute 3 for 4 ’ , so to build these chords on every scale degree all you do is delete the thirds from each triad and add in its place the note that is a diatonic fourth ( four letter names inclusive of the root note ) above the root of the chord . |
| 9 | So what I suggest you do is pay an additional three pounds which means that that is now covered for up to five thousand pounds regardless of it 's weight . |
| 10 | Well I think what you do is push the yellow somewhere towards the peg in the middle . |
| 11 | What we do is to picture the current situation altered to the extent that Mrs Thatcher delays the election . |
| 12 | What we need is to find a safe place soon , and I 'd rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we ca n't . " |
| 13 | What we need is to get the best of both worlds , an enhanced and more competent community providing care , support and help to individuals efficiently but without dumping disadvantaged people onto unsupported relatives . |
| 14 | The first thing they do is switch the bloody lights on . |
| 15 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 16 | All it needs is to promise a high-powered investigation , such as a Royal Commission , into the practicalities of an alternative voting system ( surely justified by the intense public interest now abounding ) . |
| 17 | just pure inset , and just headquarters , that 's all they 're interested in , not whether he knows his job or not , not whether he could give advice because he has no control over whatever comes into that shop , he does n't decide we 're not having these T-shirts in or , or we 're not having these suits in because really they 're a load of rubbish , headquarters decides it , all he does is put a nice little display out , usually , and it 's shown how to do it by headquarters and so on , these people come round and show them what to do and so on , do all that , in fact he 's as much expertise in there as I have or you have , anybody could literally with a bit of training in the company way of doing things |
| 18 | It it 's a it 's a measurement area here for example , but all it does is record the binary pattern er under that area . |
| 19 | What it does is to send a tight beam of information up to a satellite . |
| 20 | The group aims to provide a kind of one-stop shop for standards and specifications in a buyer 's marketplace , which it believes is replacing the vendor-dominated open systems space of the last few years . |
| 21 | What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us . |
| 22 | What A Present View forces us to do is to reconsider a traditional equation between humanism and liberalism . |
| 23 | What the computer system enables us to do is input the various pieces of information for each case which are particular to that case but to run these pieces of information through a set framework of events which produce the appropriate documentation , thus achieving a cost effective and efficient system . |