Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I suppose you have to be if you sleep with an erstwhile nun . |
| 3 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 4 | Yes , we had the , we had the six foot drop in February do you remember ? were cos we live on a steep hill and |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If that is what getting engaged does to him , the pity is that we live in a monogamous society ! |
| 7 | The major difference between the American and British systems is that we vote for an MP , the party with the most MPs wins and its leader moves into Number Ten . |
| 8 | The only important thing is that we play as a team and that we win . |
| 9 | The heart of true faith is that we enter into an experience of God which takes up our whole being , emotions included . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What is most worrying about these two episodes is that they smack of an orchestrated campaign on the part of the English rugby powers-that-be to create added tension between nations , for which Brian Moore is singularly well-equipped to be the aggressive mouthpiece . |
| 12 | Yet one of the striking characteristics of Shakespeare 's Sonnets is that they exist on an almost universal level ; they are generalized ( with none of the depersonalization that usually goes with generalization ) ; they are widely , perhaps indefinitely applicable . |
| 13 | One advantage of base-isolated buildings is that they move as a unit . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | One of the first things you 'll realise is that you work for an organisation that has to react and respond rapidly to changing circumstances . |
| 22 | All I 'm askin' is that you stall fer a couple of hours . |
| 23 | He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's because we live on a bad star , is n't it , Tess ? ’ he said through his tears . |
| 25 | Q Our heating bills are always astronomical in the winter and I 'm convinced it 's because we live in an old draughty house . |
| 26 | Maybe it 's because they sound like a goat rammed down a foghorn . |
| 27 | That 's it was it was as you say over a patio door , it was actually being used as an entrance door as well |