Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hundred books on the table in front of me are so many tongs that pinch out the nerve of independent thought … one can not go one 's own way independently enough " ; and , from 1868 , a sardonic dismissal of " the philologists of our time " for " their joy at capturing worms and their indifference to the true problems , the urgent problems of life " . |
| 2 | M I mean , let's be fair I mean most of the stallholders that I 've found in Nottinghamshire erm are perfectly honest and reputable and many of them been there many years anyway . |
| 3 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 4 | I been there all day . ’ |
| 5 | The team who gave us SOUTH PACIFIC , OKLAHOMA , CAROUSEL , THE SOUND OF MUSIC and THE KING AND I are just some from the legacy of the best and most popular shows of the post-war era . |
| 6 | I 've told you over and over again , I am here all the time . ’ |
| 7 | I am scarcely more than a child . |
| 8 | But I am not that man , Thomas thought , shivering in a heap on the flower bed where he had dropped onto all fours so as not to be seen . |
| 9 | I am not that man , he thought again , straightening up now , for in the next instant it seemed entirely necessary that he should not hide , should visibly walk to the front door and into his library . |
| 10 | I 'm glad that I am not that sort . |
| 11 | But I am not all that keen on boxed sets anyway . |
| 12 | I am not such a fathead as to attempt to describe the pleasure of eating , but I would draw your attention to the vegetable soup cooked with a hambone ( le garbure ) , to the river trout braised in Henri IV 's favourite Juranon wine , the grilled breast of duck . |
| 13 | I am not such an optimist as to imagine that we are always going to agree with you about the type of regulation , or its costs , but I do want to emphasise that we are determined always to try to talk through contentious issues with you and to ensure that there is real dialogue . ’ |
| 14 | And then : perhaps after all I am not such a deformed thing , he thought , and a sweet heady joy began to pulse through him . |
| 15 | I know I am not such a blameless one as should be saying it , but try and find it in your heart to be good to her , for she is lovely . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ My lord , I am not such an idiot as to go fleeing into that downpour . |
| 17 | I am not such a fool . |
| 18 | ‘ And I am not such a man . ’ |
| 19 | I have to tell you I am not any sort of an expert on the budgets of grant maintained schools . |
| 20 | ‘ I am not some petty chieftain with time on his hands to exchange chatter and gossip . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I am not some women , ’ Robyn retorted . |
| 22 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 23 | ‘ The cinema is not a place I am very much attending . ’ |
| 24 | From my visit to Lhasa last year , I am very much aware of the implications for the Tibetan people of Chinese colonialism and its policy of apartheid . |
| 25 | I am very much in favour of doing that and I guess that since this conference has got the environment on its agenda we may hope to hear bright new suggestions of how to avoid dilemmas of that kind . |
| 26 | Dear Grandfather , I am very much indebted to you for sending me to school , and especially to my present Teachers , who have greatly contributed to my improvement , but to you is due all the knowledge I possess . |
| 27 | I am very much in love with this man . " |
| 28 | I am very much afraid , sir , that … ’ |
| 29 | I am very much displeased with the freedoms you have taken with my name , and you may as well have real cause to take these freedoms with me . |
| 30 | So that although my native place is so beautiful , I am very much looking forward to seeing Swinging London . " |