Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , the signs are that he died as a result of poisoning but this has to be confirmed . ’ |
| 3 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
| 4 | There is indeed a single gene male which has recently been and it acts as a switch . |
| 5 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 6 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 7 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 8 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 9 | tangle it , just trying to tangle it up , cos the idea being if he gets round a weed , often enough he go that means , basically it gives him a lever , I mean they 're very clever you know , these fish , they 're not , they do n't just sort of sit there and wait . |
| 10 | Yes , we had the , we had the six foot drop in February do you remember ? were cos we live on a steep hill and |
| 11 | One familiar view is that nothing qualifies as a genuine proper name unless it singles out its object in an unambiguous fashion , and that this task can be accomplished only by a logically simple symbol . |
| 12 | The basic premiss , usually , is that whatever exists in a fundamental sense does not depend upon anything external to itself for own existence and is in every way self-sufficient , which is regarded as analytically true . |
| 13 | The trouble is that we live in a part of the world in which many people depend on Unix — not to fight Microsoft and NT , but to earn their living — and there are too many unknowns . |
| 14 | If that is what getting engaged does to him , the pity is that we live in a monogamous society ! |
| 15 | The only important thing is that we play as a team and that we win . |
| 16 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 17 | One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter . |
| 18 | One advantage of base-isolated buildings is that they move as a unit . |
| 19 | The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ . |
| 20 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 21 | I was too far away to observe what colour Enid Starkie 's eyes were ; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot , walked like a scrum-half , and had an atrocious French accent . |
| 22 | ‘ The important thing is that I got in a couple of block tackles , which was significant . |
| 23 | One of my activities outside HTV , approved of by the company , is that I act as a consultant to a communication company and help to train industrialists , business executives and trade union officials who want to come to terms with the necessary techniques of appearing on television . |
| 24 | And I 'll start backwards by saying what I 'd like to see , and that is that I think with a group of women coming from such a broad spectrum , that the work we 're going to do is never going to be the same and there are going to be large areas in which we may not be able to work together . |
| 25 | All I will say is that I reject as a model of justice the view which has temporarily gained favour in many developed societies : namely , the view that each person is entitled to what he can get , and let the next man look out for himself as best he can . |
| 26 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 27 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 28 | sure , th th th that is your other option is , is that you go for a m a much more equal policy and the , the government takes money in taxation and puts it back into the , the agricultural sector . |
| 29 | ‘ A principle I have always applied in the property business is that you put in a bid that you think something is worth , and you do n't go above it . ’ |
| 30 | All I 'm askin' is that you stall fer a couple of hours . |