Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed right where he was until good manners forced her to offer to make him a drink too . |
| 2 | And just as it was that the woman was instrumental in the fall of the human race , so it was that another woman was instrumental in its restoration . |
| 3 | If they are and this kind of tragedy occurs then they must be punished for such behaviour . ’ |
| 4 | Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting . |
| 5 | We have very little as it is and this plan will just wipe it out . |
| 6 | Nor can any reconstructed , facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant . |
| 7 | you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ? |
| 8 | To attribute any subsequent pathology in the child to that single event would be misleading , for it is but one link in a chain of traumata , any one of which — or , more likely , the sum total of all — may be responsible for the child 's condition . |