Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of products ( like salt , oil or coal ) which are won or abstracted , the person who wins or abstracts them is the producer . |
| 2 | Nor has it been the result of government action and state control . |
| 3 | In the case of both /Ε/; and /a/ it is the persons for whom the vowel has less significance as a network marker who seem to be leading the linguistic change . |
| 4 | Manipulation of ‘ needs ’ by both creating them and satisfying them is the process by which social control is effected . |
| 5 | It would exclude , on the other hand , those crucial processes of working and reworking which are the specifics , as distinct from the abstractable elements , of important art . |
| 6 | Er , we call on Labour Mem Members of Parliament to give their support in each of these areas mentioned , and we do constantly have a dialogue and provide what is the union line in terms of erm these particular er issues . |
| 7 | The choice of McLeish as captain will , Roxburgh believes , remove an unwanted , additional pressure from McStay 's shoulders and let him be the midfield schemer who orchestrates the emphatic victory essential to Scotland 's progress . |
| 8 | Lot number one hundred and ten one hundred and ten is the bucket-shaped saki pot and cover there 's the pot and cover for ten pounds at ten pounds , fifteen at the back now fifteen is offered and selling for fifteen only , at fifteen pounds , you all done ? |
| 9 | Then he makes up this funny word and says it 's the name of a disease by which his brain is rotting away . |
| 10 | No two days are the same for the Buildings Branch and says it 's the variety which makes his job so enjoyable . |
| 11 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 12 | When all 's said and done it 's the character that counts . ’ |
| 13 | I think I 'd better go backstage and see what 's the matter . ’ |
| 14 | yes it 's Richard , wait a minute , lets go down and see what 's the matter with Ri , what 's the matter Richard ? |
| 15 | While the scrubbing was done Mrs Morey found an occupation which would involve the children , and going there was the highlight of their lives . |
| 16 | He reaches into his bag , brings out a sandwich , then stands up and inspects it is the projector beam to see what it contains . |
| 17 | Go back to your priestly intolerance , back to your blasphemous masses , back to your beads , holy water , holy smoke and stinks and remember we are the sons of the martyrs whom your church butchered and we know your church to be the mother of harlots and the abominations of the earth . |
| 18 | A more substantial criticism of this line of thinking is that , being sociological and stating what is the case , it does not offer us any positive conception of what could be the case . |
| 19 | It is this that bears on my father 's second question-how to contain the uncontainable : producing these extremes and then controlling and containing them are the problems . |
| 20 | Central government has a duty to contain local public expenditure and to determine what are the limits to any individual council 's spending . |
| 21 | And guess who was the man involved heading the ball from the chip ; Les Phillips once again laying the ball back to Martin Foyle . |
| 22 | I want to play for my country and believe I am the man for the job . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm so sorry — I saw the fire , and thought it was the dining-room . |
| 24 | Simone Thiroux , the Canadian student so enamoured of Modigliani , was still shadowing him ; by now she was pregnant and claiming he was the father . |
| 25 | In both Classical and Christian thinking mysticism represents a way back to the source of being , but in Christian thinking from the fourth century on , the gulf between Creator and created was seen as mysteriously bridged by the love of God incarnate in Jesus Christ , God 's Word , the expression of himself manifest in time , which , in turn , enables human knowledge and love which are the way back . |
| 26 | The very order implies understanding of the process of redemption whereby the Incarnation and Passion transform the lex talionis ( the law of retaliation ) of the Old Testament with the grace and love which are the means of recycling the waste products of sin . |
| 27 | him a wee note , and tell him that you , that you , you know , you can feel this er I 'll tell him I 've had a look at it , and think it 's the rib that 's showing through . |
| 28 | For Matthew and Mark it 's the prospect of a new school , old friends to leave , and new ones to make as well as a new system of education . |
| 29 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 30 | He offered a hand of reconciliation to whites and said it was the ANC 's job , as the country 's biggest political force , to address national unity and nation building . |