Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , what many yoga fans will have heard about is the ‘ life-force ’ , especially if they followed Richard Hittleman 's Yoga for Health series on television . |
| 2 | It was as if the only thing he cared about was the stupid thing . |
| 3 | And the only thing I cared about was the damn foolishness of the banning . |
| 4 | The nurses here wrote down every day on Stephen 's chart how many hours he had cried , but neither Sloan nor Dr Turner turned a hair when they looked at that on the chart ; all they cared about was the weight curve . |
| 5 | If you 're looking for an ‘ outsider ’ in the men' , I suppose the obvious name to go for is the currently out of form Andre Agassi , a hard hitter in the Courier mould . |
| 6 | differentiate that so the big the first thing to go for is the power is one less and then |
| 7 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 8 | What the government did not bargain for was the public outrage and the massive support given to the demonstrations . |
| 9 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 10 | All I could think about was the terrible consequences had we lost . |
| 11 | All he could think about was the impending phone call . |
| 12 | This must not detract from the enormous value of May 's pioneer work in publishing such large collections , and he can hardly be blamed for being the victim , as we all are in turn , of the limitation of the knowledge and ideas of the day . |
| 13 | ‘ Now all we must wait for is the kettle . |
| 14 | ‘ The one I ca n't wait for is the European Cup . |
| 15 | ‘ The one I ca n't wait for is the European Cup on April 16–20 , ’ says the talented teenager , quipping : ‘ The only problem is that it 's at Cannock and not somewhere exotic in Europe ! ’ |
| 16 | Say nr is the number of positions in this row where one might put a piece , according to the rules . |
| 17 | for each unoccupied row , r , say nr is the number of positions in this row where one might still put a piece . |
| 18 | Thing I do n't approve of is the fact that when I ask questions |
| 19 | NICK FALDO , with what appears to be a perfectly-timed run into his very best form , looks like being the man to beat in the Masters , which begins at Augusta National today . |
| 20 | Agassi has managed to sign up a licensing deal with Tecmagik and this looks like being the long-awaited definitive tennis game on Sega systems . |
| 21 | There has been a revolution in the marketing of computer products and the winner looks like being the consumer . |
| 22 | OUR fifth great Daily Mirror allotments competition looks like being the best ever , according to judges . |
| 23 | Sony 's palmtop CD-I player looks like being the forerunner of the ultimate form of electronic book , offering sound , text , images — including full screen , full motion video — together with intuitive user interfaces and screen resolutions easily matching the traditional quality of the printed page . |
| 24 | This last approach using linkages between text fields in the database records looks like being the most promising model for multimedia database design . |
| 25 | Its novelty lies in being the first formal account of language ability that is part of an overall theory of cognition . |
| 26 | What I want to concentrate upon are the different models used in order to explain basic theological terms . |
| 27 | In that period of time we 'd have dropped from being the largest and preferred supplier to a minority supplier |
| 28 | The United States may also be approaching the same conclusion , for between 1980 and 1988 it moved from being the world 's largest creditor to being its largest debtor . |
| 29 | The only thing there is to work upon is the present and past . |
| 30 | The carving is done generally in that portion of the temple designed to be the sanctum , and the doors are closed during three , five , seven or nine days . |