Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more I drink , the more I am persuaded that young wines offer most pleasure ; a constantly renewable resource , popping up fresh every year . |
| 2 | I am informed that local authorities currently have to make their requests through the police . |
| 3 | I am advised that local authorities seeking simply to provide the public with access to a comprehensive range of artistic and literary materials will not be put at risk by this provision . |
| 4 | I 'm told that professional painters now have shade cards that provide a selection of 3,000 colours . |
| 5 | If you 're pr promoting that rich peasant economy , you are hoping that middle peasants will be upwardly ambitious and mobile and , and will also move up to be , to be rich peasants . |
| 6 | She 's hoping that private businesses will contribute to the upkeep . |
| 7 | There are many mementoes of her life in the collection — everywhere she went she was feted and given souvenirs of her visits to distant parts of the world . |
| 8 | ‘ One dress was called ‘ Dying Embers ’ after a lady at a fancy dress party who 'd claimed she was dressed as dying embers — and if someone did n't poke her soon she was going home ! |
| 9 | That is the orderly and sensible way to proceed , which is why we are pressing and encouraging others to press for the earliest possible membership of the former Soviet republics in the IMF . |
| 10 | Friendly journalists are kept regularly briefed about what we 're planning and key areas of work . |
| 11 | Yet the Laboulbeniales seem a likely group to solicit as mercenaries against our arthropod adversaries , so why have they been ignored as potential agents of biological control ? |
| 12 | The phenomenon of certain mundane objects becoming so firmly associated with an individual that they are understood as literal extensions of that individual 's being was discussed in some detail by Levy-Bruhl ( 1966 : 100–27 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ They are either I-Control , who like systems , data and accuracy , things like that ; or they are I-Explore and like ideas and experimentation . |
| 14 | Potential members must write to the relevant section ( or sections ) , and the BSIA 's governing council has to establish that they are recognised and effective businesses or trades . |
| 15 | If they are lax they are realised as short vowels , if tense as diphthongs ( this category including what I have been calling long vowels ) . |
| 16 | They are shown as straight arrows , and are usually designated by letters ( A , B , C etc ) . |
| 17 | They are shown as separate locations only because Drachenfels was able to visit them in whatever order he chose , and characters might somehow be able to by-pass one terrain to get to another in the sequence . |
| 18 | Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) . |
| 19 | Even if these are not services whose impact is deeply felt by teachers and by ancillary staff nevertheless they can enrich the school when they are provided as additional services and they can , if they are absent , narrow a school 's horizons . |
| 20 | When the mouthbrooder picks up her eggs she gathers up the Synodontis eggs with them which she incubates inside her mouth along with her own fry until they are released as tiny replicas of their natural parents — possibly after preying on the cichlid fry while they are inside her mouth . |
| 21 | They 're warning that overloaded vehicles are dangerous and can cause serious accidents . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the evidence available , partial and fragmentary though it is , suggests that the structural incentives which have been set in place are starting to operate in the way they were intended and present opportunities to make services more responsive to consumers and more appropriate to local needs . |
| 23 | They were asked if additional radiographs of the spine could be taken , and 149 ( 78% ) agreed . |
| 24 | There are different versions of how they got to Japan , but eventually they were accepted as useful allies and were sent back to recruit more potential fighters in Rangoon . |
| 25 | They were organised and formidable teams before its formation . |
| 26 | They were described as mere preparations for an Iranian final offensive , though this much-heralded event was to be a long time coming . |
| 27 | Although Calvinist in origin , they were sung and fresh settings were composed by Catholics and Lutherans as well . |
| 28 | The discussion about the service policeman 's job prospects might have been more sanguine had it been known that civil servants in Whitehall were reading a provocative paper on full employment policy . |
| 29 | Nor can it be assumed that professional courses always tackle the social aspects : How much do accountants or pharmacists consider the professional client relationship ? |
| 30 | Neither should it be thought that informal methods necessarily lead to untidy work presented in a poor hand . |