Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London . |
| 2 | JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London . |
| 3 | I am sure that he was as pleased as I was that the Parliamentary Secretary , my hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon ( Mr. Curry ) , spent some time last week promoting British lamb in the middle of France . |
| 4 | My suggestion to you is that the only connection between them is basic human nature itself , namely that the heart of man is incurably evil . |
| 5 | Liza was unaware that she was but the female counterpart of her father ; for Harriet , resolute and loyal to the last , had managed to keep any knowledge of Tom 's countless affairs from his daughter . |
| 6 | In all this , we 've discovered a definite link between what has made us what we are and the unsettling elements which we now bring as responses or even confrontations when conflict arises . |
| 7 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 8 | And near the Post Office , opposite the Post Office , so they were But the only thing I did n't like there was the houses opposite me They all seemed to be in their windows watching everything . |
| 9 | That His Majesty , understanding that the Forest Laws are grievous to the Subjects of this Kingdom … out of his Grace and Goodness to his people , is willing to lay down all the new Bounds of his Forests … reduced to the same Condition as they were before the late justices Seat held . |
| 10 | They were joined , like most of the other foreign armies that came to Lebanon , by a retinue of Lebanese acolytes , of leftist militiamen and Lebanese Baath party functionaries , all of them desperate to explain how delighted they were that the peace-loving Syrians had arrived to save their country . |
| 11 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 12 | On the other hand , when they got the chance , they drank more than was good for them , and they all smoked , either surreptitiously or openly , depending on where they were and the various fashions in tolerance among their parents , some of whom still smoked cannabis to the scorn of their offspring . |
| 13 | The Zoo lay under a bitter stormy sky , the bars of the cages seeming even more black against it than they were and the leafless trees more bleak There had been thick snow the previous week , the final throes of winter , and then it had thawed leaving dampness and mud everywhere . |
| 14 | What puzzled him was that the beautiful creature could never have arranged itself in that unnatural position . |
| 15 | Could it be that the Prime Minister did n't want to admit to a U-turn , to reneging on a commitment to European partners , ‘ some of those European Commissioners ’ , ‘ the mining areas ’ and ‘ the people of Britain ’ ? |
| 16 | Could it be that the first creatures to leave any sign of their existence were as complex as worms and molluscs ? |
| 17 | Could it be that the only people they really care about are the ones who can afford big cars and foreign holidays ? |
| 18 | Could it be that the natural wealth visible throughout the land is just too much to ignore ? |
| 19 | " Can it be that the foreign settlor is liable to pay Surtax on the income derived from those United Kingdom securities ? " ; 7. that case was not before the court but the " answer must be : Yes , because the Act in plain terms so provides " . |
| 20 | That would be it would a a s the straightest plough would it be or the straightest line would it have |
| 21 | Presentation techniques , a few things here that might help you in terms of making it interesting as it were and the actual delivery of your training your posture , keep your posture erect , but relaxed I do n't really know what that means but er er stand up . |
| 22 | I 've heard you selling the guy that showed you these two manifestos one by the Tories and one by the Labour and the one that stuck in my mind it 's that the Labour Party will have a minimum wage to comply with the rest of Europe . |
| 23 | People walking in but we need to need to clearly define the areas and if it 's that the national account department at has this list of corporate clients then maybe it makes sense that the national account manager responsible for deals with those also |
| 24 | So they wo n't do that , and of course it 's and the main thing that costs is the transport is every time you go on a bus you 're down to whatever it is two hundred pounds , and because of the two areas that we use , I mean we 're not gon na , I mean I do n't really know |
| 25 | I suspect it 's because the 1992 election is the first in which the BBC is following ITN 's lead by using exit polls . |
| 26 | It 's because the whole thing was off kilter in some way , not what it seemed , not what people thought it was , not … well , just not right . ’ |
| 27 | It is but the momentary flicker of a candle in the dark . |
| 28 | If a single criticism of Degas Sculptures is to be made , it is that the Gauthier prints are reproduced on a small , often miniature scale and are not presented , as they deserve to be , on a one-to-a-page basis , preferably beside their bronze counterparts . |
| 29 | It is that the appropriate design of policy and policy institutions is crucial to a successful competition policy . |
| 30 | In addition , they help to explain why it is that the average length of custody imposed by the higher courts is a historically proven index of prison population generally , once allowance has been made for changes in the level of recorded crime ( Home Office , 1956 ; but cf. |