Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 4 | Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way . |
| 5 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 6 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 7 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 8 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 9 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 10 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 11 | AS the curtain comes down on Courage League rugby for 1992 , the game 's elite are gearing themselves for the biggest dog-fight since the competition 's inception six years ago . |
| 12 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 13 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 14 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 15 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 16 | Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms . |
| 17 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 18 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
| 19 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 20 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 21 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 22 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 23 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 24 | Normally you would n't be seen dead doing a knees bend keeping your back straight , but if you 're getting something off the bottom shelf you wo n't look ridiculous at all . |
| 25 | But that still does n't tell me why you 're wearing them in the first place , does it ? ’ she grinned . |
| 26 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 27 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 28 | They may need to go out in pairs which is why I think that we do need to put more money into the budget to provide this service and make sure that we 're doing it in the best possible way , erm so I mean I think that it 's very important that we 're consistent about this . |
| 29 | you , you 're doing it in the same room |
| 30 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |