Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well I 'll be contacting them in the next fortnight er if and to make be able to pass on my card , I 'll leave you two cards so that they , they know to expect a phone call from myself .
2 He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort .
3 Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide .
4 She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off .
5 Standard machines measure 600 mm ( 23⅝in ) deep by 595 mm ( 23⅜in ) wide , to fit between units and can be stacked one above the other , but , unless you have a separate utility room , that does not leave much space nearby for storing laundry supplies and accessories or setting down the just cleaned laundry .
6 The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client .
7 Whereas in Los Angeles I manipulated costly hot and cold water in appropriate vessels throughout the house , Bali is a network of streams and rivers which , like veins and arteries , must be distinguished one from the other for their various uses .
8 for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts .
9 It was also , in his view , unpardonable on grounds of principle , since by the autumn of 1940 Vichy seemed to be aligning itself with the foreign policy of the Nazi regime and aspects of its political ideology .
10 The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect .
11 Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place .
12 cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time .
13 She had not stopped to think that she might be inserting herself into a social scene that she had walked away from when she had left home .
14 I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next .
15 If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less .
16 THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend .
17 His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March .
18 I have no doubt that during the general election campaign the chairman of the Tory party will be spreading himself about a little bit , even though he has a tiny majority in Bath .
19 and I need to ensure that this experience erm well I I need to make sure that I will be evaluating it in a similar way as I went along .
20 Everybody has them and something must be holding you at a given height above the ground ! ’
21 you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday
22 The gulls can see the help and benefit they receive from Iago 's service , but can not see , or conceive , that Iago could be benefiting himself at the same time ; and no one could possibly see that Iago is in fact benefiting himself by destroying them .
23 ‘ We shall be treating them like a Premier League side . ’
24 There are 10 very lucky readers who could be treating themselves to a hot , refreshing shower every morning .
25 Decide on an Apex and within a week you 'll be treating it like a good friend .
26 Makes a change to be giving it to a real postman .
27 Molesworth claimed that the House would not be committing itself to the larger scheme , nevertheless it was not in a mood for what George Bankes called an ‘ extensive scheme to enable Cabinet Ministers to entertain foreign visitors and their friends ’ .
28 The thing is they wo n't be going shopping , they wo n't be doing anything for a long time and she 's
29 If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis .
30 And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’
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