Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [conj] [adj] [noun] " 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 | John MacGregor , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food I am advised that hard cheese processes suppress and kill off pathogens . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 6 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 7 | I 'm told that professional painters now have shade cards that provide a selection of 3,000 colours . |
| 8 | I did not receive a thank you from the owner of these cards nor from the Midland Bank , yet I was told that common practice in Britain is to reward the finder . |
| 9 | On a recent visit to a day centre , which served both younger disabled and old people , I was told that old people were envious and resentful when computer learning was introduced for the younger disabled people . |
| 10 | I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 13 | She was elected as Tory leader in 1975 as the voice of petit bourgeois protest in the constituencies , as against grandees like Whitelaw , Carrington , or Pym . |
| 14 | She was advised that formal evidence would have to be called in order for her to form an opinion under section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 as to whether the defendant should be remanded in custody or on bail on the same or more stringent conditions , and that accordingly the hearing would in effect be a trial and would require to be heard before at least two justices . |
| 15 | In Kendra Sone 's article ‘ Vetting equality ’ ( 16 February ) we are warned that psychometric testing , when used for selecting candidates , should be used with care and that candidates could find themselves open to discrimination if such tests become part of tougher selection processes . |
| 16 | When this absolute test is not met we are told that significant benefit or risk remains . |
| 17 | Now we are told that universal capping is necessary because the Secretary of State and his colleagues are frightened of trusting local people to make local decisions under the new banded system . |
| 18 | Once we 're found that favourite shape , there is nothing more frustrating than discovering that fashion has made it obsolete . |
| 19 | But I was trained in an era when we were told that continental drift was all right for the unscientific geologists , but the " real " scientists — the physicists — said it was impossible . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The contrast between the view that moral distinctions are detected by sense and feeling and the view that they are revealed as necessary truth to reason was a central theme in the moral philosophy of David Hume ( 1711–76 ) , whose philosophy is recognized as empiricism brought more or less to perfection . |
| 24 | If they are lax they are realised as short vowels , if tense as diphthongs ( this category including what I have been calling long vowels ) . |
| 25 | They are shown as straight arrows , and are usually designated by letters ( A , B , C etc ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |