Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] [pron] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People on the receiving end of a hoax bomb call never know if it is the real thing . ’ |
| 2 | I said , I know because they 're The Sensational Alex Harvey Band . |
| 3 | anymore , you know because it 's the nice ceremony and because it 's it 's a do . |
| 4 | I start counting from Wednesday which I know because it was the first day of term . |
| 5 | I have the feeling , too , that the great object of the recording engineers here has been to present the full sound-range from the faintest pianissimo to the most thunderous triple- forte , and to ensure also that we hear as it were the furthest tip of the singers ' sibilants and the deepest reverberation of the bass drum . |
| 6 | This depicted W H Smith as being accident prone — ‘ every time [ analysts ] meet the company there is another piece of bad news ’ — and weakly led : ‘ Brokers are also beginning to mutter about the effectiveness of the management led by opera buff and P G Wodehouse fan , chairman Sir Simon Hornby : they wonder if he is the right man to tackle the deep-seated problems at Do It All . ’ |
| 7 | I wonder if it 's the opposite and they 're a sort of post-acting civilization , maybe the first one on the earth . |
| 8 | " I wonder if it 's the same one . " |
| 9 | I wonder if it 's the same address as when we got ours ? |
| 10 | I wonder if it 's the same address as when we got ours ? |
| 11 | ‘ Wonder if it was the same one as the other day ? |
| 12 | She rushed away before anyone could stop her , rushed too quickly to hear Carlo say , I do n't know , I think if I were the beautiful Katherine 's mother , I might suffer the occasional twinge of jealousy . ’ |
| 13 | When they read to us they do n't skip bits , or mind if it is the same story over again . |
| 14 | Old Trafford boss Alex Ferguson withdrew Ince from the England squad after the game and was about to order his 24-year-old star to have three days ’ rest when there was the sudden turn-around . |
| 15 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 16 | Go and check them and see if they 're the right |
| 17 | I 'll have a look and see if it 's the same publishers , cos it looks the same kind of format , but then again it probably would be cos it 's aimed at the same market |