Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In societies where there is a strong emphasis on certain goals , but where the means for obtaining them are unavailable to most citizens , the result is a situation of anomie ; a situation , in other words , where the rules and standards governing behaviour have lost their influence and force and are liable to be ignored , and where shared norms or rules no longer determine and direct behaviour . |
2 | Remarkable that out of thirty people elected last May , fifteen of them are new to this Council , a staggering seventeen percent of the Council if you do it statistically . |
3 | The standardizing , regularizing , authoritative properties often assigned to print as a medium ( though many of them are inherent in any writing system ) could have full social effect only if they had this broad coherence with general developments in the social and labour processes , to which , however , print was not a mere ancillary , for it was one of the forms of such development . |
4 | Rumour has it that most of them are unhedged at these levels : they did not expect the currency to rise this far . |
5 | Much of them are unreclaimed to this day , as in Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey . |
6 | I would be willing to pay for any books or copies or , if anyone has an old machine that could be used for spares , I am desperate for these bits . |
7 | Said Sales Development Manager Nick Finlay , ‘ I am delighted with these results which are due to excellent teamwork . |
8 | As I am new to this post I am not sure whether we sent you copies of new Community Care leaflets when they were first produced so I now enclose a set for your information . |
9 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
10 | I am unaware of any biography in print , and it was for this reason that I wrote this brief account of the life of a truly great man of God . |
11 | I am sorry , but the Prime Minister — I am sure without any intention — is not right about the way that he expressed himself on that point . |
12 | ‘ I am proud of these things , ’ says Bradley , evidently a believer in the view that political mayors should be judged by the size of their convention centres . |
13 | I am familiar with many routes on minor roads in the region , as well as the cycle paths built by organisations like Sustrans . |
14 | I am grateful to these sponsors and to my colleagues on the project , Alison Kelly , Barbara Smail and John Catton . |
15 | I am grateful for that direction . |
16 | I am grateful for that suggestion , but I am not sure which Labour party policy the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that I adopt to encourage investment . |
17 | I am grateful for that reply . |
18 | I am grateful for that reply . |
19 | I am grateful for that gift , as perhaps you may be . ’ |
20 | Mr Court was a principal architect of this Society as it is today and I am grateful for this opportunity to pay tribute to the very considerable part he has played in the development of the Society over the past 16 years . |
21 | I am grateful for this opportunity to clarify any uncertainty that may have resulted from this case , the specific circumstances which lay behind it and the way in which it had to be decided . |
22 | I am grateful for this invitation and would like to attend the launch . |
23 | I am guilty in that respect . |
24 | Since I am involved in this affair , it would be preferable to me if he were dealing with it . ’ |
25 | And when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing but rather that a riot was starting , he took water and washed his hands in front of the multitude saying , I am innocent of this man 's blood , see to that yourselves . |
26 | I am innocent of this crime and so is James Griffiths . |
27 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
28 | He said , ‘ I am sorry for this annoyance . |
29 | I wear mine on my right hand as well but then I am odd in all sorts of ways . ’ |
30 | Sadly , I failed daily to get any of the pilots to use the Link , so I used the periods myself and , in time , overcame my shortcomings in bad-weather flying , I am convinced to this day that those stolen trips in the Link could well have prolonged my flying life in later years . |