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 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The cinema is not a place I am very much attending . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I am very much in love with this man . " |
| 14 | I am very much afraid , sir , that … ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So that although my native place is so beautiful , I am very much looking forward to seeing Swinging London . " |
| 17 | So I d I am very much minded not to pursue the option of purchase . |
| 18 | I am very much in favour of Europe . |
| 19 | Whereas this afternoon 's letter is , unless I am very much mistaken , from Nine Turning Mirrors , the Grand Vizier . |
| 20 | I am very much looking forward to meeting my hon. Friend 's constituents on that occasion . |
| 21 | ‘ There is a card in here , unless I am very much mistaken , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ Unless I am very much mistaken , Barry , ’ said I , ‘ We are in serious difficulty here . ’ |
| 23 | Eric has suffered from quite severe migraine all his life , and I am very much inclined to attribute the ailment to his manner of entry into the world . |
| 24 | I am very much , very greatly concerned by the traditions in bus garages and to the facts that er workers are out of work being their position at work be very considerably worse off . |
| 25 | Erm , one other thing that I want to make about erm , the victims , erm , I am very much er , involved with erm , victim support Wiltshire , and one of the problems with victim support Wiltshire is their work is increasing all the time because the crime rate goes up , and every time there is more crime there is more victims , but the , the Government has not yet said that they will put the money up that they erm , that they er , the grant up that they give to the victim support . |
| 26 | ‘ I have just been elected chairman again for this year I am very much involved with the society so it just makes sense really . ’ |
| 27 | I am very much an archive man , Brian . |
| 28 | Well , I think there 's a bit of Irish blood somewhere in me , even though I am very much an Oxford person now erm obviously the car will be green . |
| 29 | I am under such a constant mental and emotional strain . |
| 30 | I know it must appear churlish when I am under such an obligation to you — ’ |