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

No	Sentence
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	She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off .
4	The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client .
5	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 .
6	Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place .
7	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 .
8	I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next .
9	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 .
10	His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March .
11	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 .
12	Everybody has them and something must be holding you at a given height above the ground ! ’
13	you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday
14	‘ We shall be treating them like a Premier League side . ’
15	Decide on an Apex and within a week you 'll be treating it like a good friend .
16	Makes a change to be giving it to a real postman .
17	If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis .
18	And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’
19	And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’
20	if you 're gon na plan bare rooted trees and stuff you 've got ta be doing it in the dormant season , so you 're talking October , November possibly October .
21	Mr Sabin 's family has been in the publishing and bookselling business since 1865 and his son Mark will be joining him in the new venture , together with David Fuller , another former Ackermann director .
22	‘ … and this is Folly , who will be joining us for the first time this weekend .
23	The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay .
24	now if we 've got a tap handy probably the best thing would be to run it under the cold tap and that hopefully would take away any dirt and extra bits and pieces that are stuck around it .
25	So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time .
26	The longer they had in order to establish this bit of coast as an aristocratic retreat , the easier it would be to turn it into a fashionable resort when time and money offered .
27	The drift of my rhetoric might seem to be taking me towards a traditional defence of literature , of the imagination , of creativity , of humane values in general .
28	‘ Will you be taking them to the maximum security wing , sir ? ’
29	Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday .
30	So , although this perspective still has much to teach us , we shall subsequently be combining it with the broader explanations offered by later urban social theorists .