Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 2 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
| 3 | If it had n't been for Kurt I would have done . |
| 4 | After de Raimes sacked Tracy he kept us in a dungeon for three months until Alice was forced to become his mistress , and had it not been for Edmund I would have lost my mind . ’ |
| 5 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 6 | When you 're in bed I 'll bring up a hot drink . ’ |
| 7 | And when we 're on lates he can do it at |
| 8 | So long as they 're on strike you can keep their wages , ca n't you ? |
| 9 | If you 're at home you can put the machine and microphone on the table near where it will still pick up conversation . |
| 10 | From Rothschild offices in London 's St James 's Place , Weinberg tells Business : ‘ We have been in talks which could result in Rothschild backing a new life company . ’ |
| 11 | We have achieved this to such an extent that had the Community Charge still been in operation it would have been 40 less than last year 's figure . |
| 12 | Henry Fairweather , group personnel and services director , acknowledges that most of its female managers are in areas one might expect such as marketing , information services and personnel . |
| 13 | Where warrants or convertible debt are in issue which may require the company to issue shares of a class which is not currently in issue the information set out in paragraph 51 should be given in respect of that class . |
| 14 | If the situation is critical , and numbers of prized fish are in jeopardy you might consider bringing such a specialist to the pond itself : most operate a system of a call-out charge , plus an hourly rate , plus the cost of any medication . |
| 15 | If you are in arrears they can tell you the best way of tackling the problem as well as helping to work out your budget . |
| 16 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 17 | When we are in need we can forget all about other people . |
| 18 | When the back seat rail and stretcher are in place we can move on to the curved lower rail in the back . |
| 19 | Where DTI Education and Enterprise Advisers are in post they will prove to be invaluable partners in making Compact work . |
| 20 | ‘ Next time you are in distress I will know to leave you to it . |
| 21 | But at last , in the summer of 1988 , negotiations are in hand which may end the war . |
| 22 | If this proposition were to be of interest I would arrange for you to be put in contact with my client , who will reveal his identity at the appropriate stage . |
| 23 | It 's no fair reason they do n't want to be with me. anybody could go off their head for that . |
| 24 | Oh Ann 's got ta go and definitely have an operation , it could be before Christmas I 'll start |
| 25 | ‘ Those Albanians who want to look towards Belgrade I welcome them and if they want to be in Albania I 'll help them back there . ’ |
| 26 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 27 | When you look at the moon half of it will be in light half of it will be in dark you will see a moon which looks like half a moon . |
| 28 | Well it 'd be on Ceefax I 'd expect |
| 29 | For example , if you will be on holiday you can explain this and say where you will be staying . |
| 30 | Probably when they see I 'm at Keele they 'll know I 'm stupid anyway . |