Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this does n't explain why we should think it is the sort that is invoked in an argument from analogy . |
| 2 | If I did n't know Karen I should think I was the candidate for diabetes . |
| 3 | ‘ If you must know it 's the men in the prison-ships who fire the gun . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ People should know we are the body responsible for checking MOT test facilities in private garages and if they think something is wrong at a garage they should get in touch . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Now , ’ Benjamin murmured , ‘ let's assume I am the assassin . |
| 6 | To quote Piesse again , " If there is much legal jargon and intricacy of arrangement [ the client ] may feel he is the victim of some art practised perhaps for the draftsman 's own purposes or at least with neglectful indifference to its effect on ordinary people " ( p54 ) . |
| 7 | She 'll think it 's the food . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If he does , they 'll think he 's the raider ! |
| 9 | The heads of these charming horsemen are so like that of the boxer that one might think his was the stele this base supported . |
| 10 | Then we 'll know it 's the shell under there , can you ? |
| 11 | i it 's not being done through okay let's seize land , let's redistribute land and then we 'll do it 's the reverse . |
| 12 | Last year was erm , an additional twenty thousand pounds at the last moment , chickenfeed for the big committees , that 's the annoying thing , but what particularly annoys me , and I have to say this , I 'll express it is the knowledge that what can be a phenomenal deprivation to this Committee , goes very , very , very little towards solving the major problems that this county faces , it does n't have a tremendous impact . |
| 13 | All Saints ' church stands on a high mound of land in the centre of the village — one might say it is the guardian of all it surveys . |
| 14 | They 'd think it was the Mahdi 's skull all over again . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And , ’ I went on , ‘ I 'd assume it was the person who killed Angela Brickell who wanted to fix the blame for ever on Harry by making him disappear , only … ’ |
| 16 | Where there are dramatic differences of incidence for different groups , where the social pattern investigated is simplex ( for example , class difference only ) , and where the differences virtually always tend in the same direction , it is often unnecessary to test for significance , because the patterns revealed are so clear that no one could believe they are the results of pure chance . |
| 17 | She 'd pretend he was the servant , obediently paddling her down the Nile . |
| 18 | He said he said we 'd pretend it was the Crown Jewels . ’ |
| 19 | So , repression , it 's not that Freud dropped the concept of repression but that he elaborated it and made it much more sophisticated , and the mechanisms of defence are the means , you could say they 're the means by which er repression erm comes about . |
| 20 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 21 | Regularly used in connection with such occasions-and very probably the term used to designate them is the word " honouring " : for example , and the honouring of accession and of campaign respectively ; and for the more personal occasions , and the honouring of one 's becoming kazasker and Mufti respectively . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyone would think you were the elder , ’ Anne complained one day . |
| 23 | Anybody would think you were the King . ’ |
| 24 | In a region of high rolling hills , the wall is like a gigantic roller-coaster extending as far as the eye can see to east and west ; Garvine wrote of the wall that it ‘ is built on such a scale that you would think it was the work of Gods rather than men ’ . |
| 25 | It 's to analyze that , you would think it was the cat 's face , but it 's the face of the cotes . |
| 26 | The people of Scotland would remember it was the SNP who voted with Mrs Thatcher to bring a Labour government down . |
| 27 | Well I , naturally , being a chemist , would say it 's the centre of science , but quite seriously it is an extremely important area . |
| 28 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
| 29 | ‘ When he [ Mr Baker ] reflects on it , he will realise it is the kind of remark that , even in the heat of an election campaign , was not really worthy of him , and I think John Major will want to step away from that . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Kaiserslautern are experienced and might not be troubled by the atmosphere , but what will bother them is the type of football we are playing , ’ he added , referring to the game against Blackburn and the 7–1 Coca-Cola Cup thrashing of Leicester . |