Example sentences of "and [pron] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth . |
| 2 | Time buckles and I am skewered to this one moment . |
| 3 | As the ball hangs there , moon-white against the wall of cloud , everything in the world seems briefly up for grabs and I am seized by two contradictory feelings : there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable ; there is so much shit in the world that it is amazing we are happy even for a moment . |
| 4 | ‘ And I am put in this ward under observation because I am suspected of having heart murmurs and also I am having surgery on my face . |
| 5 | ‘ You think Miller and I are linked in some way ? |
| 6 | Even if the T test is made , WS , BS and I are lowered by -5 each . |
| 7 | It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard . |
| 8 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 9 | Since I was unprepared , lacking a condom , she and I were endangered from two directions in another sense also : from disease ( for we were strangers to each other ) , and from a pregnancy desired by neither of us . |
| 10 | Barbara and I were interviewed by one team upstairs in the top bar . |
| 11 | I eased the wheel up , drawing Wavebreaker 's bows harder into the sea and wind , and I was rewarded with another shattering of white spray that exploded prettily about our bows before I let the hull fall away once more . |
| 12 | Do you know when I went out to the maths thing I was waiting for , I was there and I was heard about these forgotten a calculator ! |
| 13 | The ambulance came and I was filled with delicious brandy but was instantly sick when I got to Imtarfa Hospital . |
| 14 | My mother found me floating face downwards and I was saved by artificial respiration . |
| 15 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 16 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 17 | He looked after the entire film unit practically single-handed while we were filming in Tunisia and I was reminded of this again in recent months when we visited him in hospital . |
| 18 | My mother called an usherette to have me removed , and I was handed into strange-smelling arms behind a bright beam that dazzled me . |
| 19 | And then joined so he joined the army , and I was left with this bicycle , and a friend of mine said , How about coming with us on Sunday , you can skip chapel this Sunday , and we 'll go out er we 're going into Derbyshire , and I finished up on Ack 's Edge . |
| 20 | he were ever so good and I was told about all these |
| 21 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 22 | Mm and I was told at one stage that they used to revert back to Yorkshire |
| 23 | Gold allowed the easy storage of wealth because of the high ratio of value to bulk , and its being minted by royal and ecclesiastical courts may reflect the need to administer justice , maintain officials and finance commerce , and goes hand-in-hand with the development of written law and taxation ; in the oldest Kentish laws , fines were listed in gold ‘ shillings ’ and in silver . |
| 24 | That date is especially important for those Japanese cars built on what Levy described as ‘ the Japanese aircraft carrier that is the UK , and which is pointed towards continental Europe ’ . |
| 25 | The basis for status may vary : it may he anything a social group claims as giving superiority and which is recognised by other groups — examples might include wealth , religious purity . |
| 26 | Exactly and er we are buying er a two seat version of this aeroplane er our two seat version is aimed primarily at operational training but er we have examined er time and again whether we believe the er the integration of the avionics which is possible in this aeroplane and which is planned for this aeroplane er is going to be able to reduce the pilot work load to such an extent that one man can comfortably do the job and we have arrived at the conclusion that he most certainly can . |
| 27 | The section relates to any instrument that : ( i ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court made on granting in respect of the parties a decree of divorce , nullity of marriage or judicial separation , or ( ii ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court which is made in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or the parties ' judicial separation and which is made at any time after the granting of such a decree , or ( iii ) is executed at any time in pursuance of an agreement of the parties made in contemplation of or otherwise in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or their judicial separation . |
| 28 | Eric Midwinter is quite categoric in his chapter about the discrimination which exists against older people in government appointments to voluntary office and which is applied by voluntary organisations themselves towards their older volunteers . |
| 29 | As with perceptrons , the threshold can be replaced by an extra ’ switch ’ called s0 , which is permanently on , and which is connected to each other node i by an arc with weight w0i = -ti . |
| 30 | It will also need to be aware that concerns such as these expose a major limitation of the school-controlled model of INSET which Leeds , in common with other LEAs , has adopted , and which is reinforced by current government funding arrangements and LMS . |