Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tribal communities — who have ownership rights over 97 per cent of the country 's land — are becoming more reluctant to sign agreements with the logging companies , the RIC says , while developments such as the " walkabout " sawmill are allowing them to operate their own small-scale logging operations in a more or less sustainable manner . |
| 2 | I 'd had them sussed for ages and had been encouraging them to articulate their growing awareness of their lesbianism . |
| 3 | One indication that Richard was still maintaining a more aggressive attitude than his father lies in the fact that when the constable of Gisors killed a French knight in a skirmish which occurred after the truce had been made he thought it wiser to take refuge with Richard . |
| 4 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
| 5 | So well actually I 've been robbed you got your own villas . |
| 6 | If we 're to help him get his magic back I 'm going to need to know just what he 's been up to . |
| 7 | They are expecting you to say something nice . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been expecting you to ask me that question , ’ she admitted . |
| 9 | no , but breast implants is cosmetic , people are doing it to make themselves larger and I do n't think , its not necessary is it ? , its not necessary , it do n't improve their |
| 10 | And in trying to protect the future of Europe 's television manufacturers , may actually be helping them to cut their own throats . |
| 11 | I 'm told they find it soothing . ’ |
| 12 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 13 | To show the trade how furniture should be displayed he opened his first Habitat in the Fulham Road in London . |
| 14 | How much better it would be to let them keep their existing SNA networks and pass other traffic across them . |
| 15 | You will be asking them to do something difficult and unusual for them . |
| 16 | ‘ A policy must now be announced which makes it clear that the UN will recognise the rights of Croatia , Slovenia and Bosnia to live in peace , each keeping their own borders intact . |
| 17 | You 'd , you 'd expect me erm er with my finger on that pulse to have made that point to the directors , may be help me make it several times during our sort of discussions about er both this year 's budget and next year 's projections . |
| 18 | Within the co-text , as we have seen in ( 17 ) above , a further context may be constructed which has its own index of coordinates . |
| 19 | I have been preparing myself to tell you all my mind . |
| 20 | However , increasingly sophisticated and powerful software tools are emerging which make it possible for non-programmers to program . |
| 21 | ‘ Or perhaps you were using me to make her jealous ? ’ she suggested tartly . |
| 22 | As people increasingly realise that decisions are being made which affect their daily lives , but over which they have little influence , they will demand more say — for themselves and for their elected representatives . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't have nothing against honey , ’ she explained , ‘ but I ai n't being told what to feed my own grandson . ’ |
| 24 | At the meeting of the Lothian Management Group on Thursday , 4 November 1992 , a number of important matters were raised which makes it necessary for all the funding partners to meet . |
| 25 | Those who were " Not sure " were asked what made it difficult to decide . |
| 26 | These inner ‘ whispers ’ are always creative , since they come from our inner self which is encouraging us to develop our full potential , to expand our awareness , to live more magically . |
| 27 | When you 're when you 're talking about what it 's cost us to get him those bearings |
| 28 | is running it has its own setup menu |
| 29 | USL is asking him to reconsider his recent denial of a USL bid for a preliminary injunction halting distribution of any BSDI code . |
| 30 | A baroness who was jailed after stripping an elderly relative of all her wealth is insisting she did nothing wrong . |