Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapters 2 and 3 are designed to help you on both counts . |
| 2 | Aerial spraying of the fungicide , which goes under the trade name of " Ronilan " , is now completely outlawed and farmers are forbidden to use it on any crop which is not peeled or shelled . |
| 3 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 4 | I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) . |
| 5 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 7 | " I am the sentry who is never relieved " , he said at the opening of new rooms at the Military Museum in Madrid on 7 March 1946 , conveniently overlooking the fact that several unavailing attempts had been made to relieve him since 1939 . |
| 8 | I shall work in , because I mean I 'm the one who 's been pushing to get them on this . |
| 9 | Over 200 species of birds have been seen anointing themselves with these substances . |
| 10 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 11 | We 're going to push them on this one , Clarac . |
| 12 | If you 're going to do something like this , do it big . |
| 13 | We talk later on , sort of thing when I say do nothing , you 're going to do something in that bit , but as far as you 're concerned it 's idle time . |
| 14 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 15 | We 're going to do it in one move , ’ said the battalion commander Lt Col Alastair Duncan . |
| 16 | And on the other hand , the moment they , they 're going to stick masses and masses er o o of stands , the the these market trader pieces on it , and really I ca n't understand er why bother , if you 're going to destroy something in that sort of way ? |
| 17 | And you might could try a thousand K , erm , with oth other programs , if you start using Windows , y you need to use the so software called Microsoft Windows if you 're going to use one to four . |
| 18 | That 's a gallon per minute times forty minutes then cancel with gallons so they 're going to charge you for two hundred and forty gallons . |
| 19 | ‘ And now you 're going to kill me with that ? |
| 20 | Right , we 're going to hold you to this . |
| 21 | ‘ We are creating and missing so many chances that sooner or later we 're going to hit someone for six , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Well if you , all I was going to say is , if you 're going to get something like that , I mean we could buy something that would make a set . |
| 23 | All I need for you to tell me right now is you 're going to commit yourself to this product and I will come round and we 'll sign the contract , all the stuff you told him , then we 'll talk about copy and it does n't cost you anything . |
| 24 | Now we 're going to share it with all of you . ’ |
| 25 | If you 're going to tell me about that bloody dream again — . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Have you come here to tell me that you 're going to fight me after all , now that Janice is no longer around ? ’ |
| 27 | You must be upset , Fran , if you 're starting to repeat yourself like this . ’ |
| 28 | They 're hoping to get it for this being an international airport . |
| 29 | But we 're trying to do something about that . |
| 30 | You 're trying to blind us with all your scientific talk , so that we do n't see what you 're getting at , and leave you alone till it 's too late … ’ ‘ … you 're a wicked , evil man , like that other woman said , flying in the face of Nature and God … ’ ‘ … and what about Einstein ? |