Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But if I 'm if kids are giving me work first thing in the morning and I 've got them in the afternoon they 're gon na expect it to be marked ! |
| 2 | Swift ye are as streams and soundless as the dew fall , |
| 3 | ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively . |
| 4 | can promise you is that commissions awarded on basis of competition , we were looking for quality , we invited bids , we |
| 5 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 6 | In a letter to Nizan written in August 1929 , Georges Politzer summed up their mutual position : " Inexperienced as we are as militants and as theoreticians , we must place our trust in the party . " |
| 7 | Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions , searched after and written about down the centuries . |
| 8 | What we are as individuals is decided by the particular society in which we live , and by the particular social groups to which we belong . |
| 9 | Their craggy faces are as safe as old bark to me ; they are but remnants of a petrified forest I have left behind . |
| 10 | ‘ They are but rooms , my lady … ’ |
| 11 | Er men tend to have a lower pitch on the whole , erm th they 're louder and the 's due to their physiological differences , erm Jacqueline once said that , Men try to talk bigger than they are whereas women talk as though they 're smaller . |
| 12 | These are laminated with a glossy protective finish on both sides and can be framed or just used as they are as posters ( great for brightening your den ! ) |
| 13 | We have highlighted the importance of recognising that the Constitution is subject to change in response to political conflicts , and so we have pointed to the need to study the Constitution ( and constitutional theory ) historically , politically and critically , with an eye to the tensions between things as they are and things as it is thought they are and should be . |
| 14 | But to commuters and shoppers in Manchester , already used to the avenues of poles carrying overhead power lines and the herringbone-brick trackbeds in the streets , trams they are and trams they will remain . |
| 15 | The nature of the two eyes of the Fate of the discworld was this : that while at a mere glance they were simply dark , a closer look would reveal — too late ! — that they were but holes opening onto a blackness so remote , so deep that the watcher would feel himself inexorably drawn into the twin pools on infinite night and their terrible , wheeling stars … |
| 16 | These may need to be debated as they were before compromises may need to be rich , but I 'm afraid it looks as though it 's gon na be a compromise only between two parties , but this is n't a . |
| 17 | They were that girls thought 16 was the right age to lose their virginity and that 75 per cent of them admitted to saying yes to sex when they really wanted to say no . |
| 18 | ‘ I asked him was that pounds or dollars and he said dollars , so I said sure that 's not so bad and offered him £5 off the price of a new sweater . |
| 19 | Could it be that thoughts are turning to knitting now the Autumn season is upon us ? |
| 20 | Can it be that governments have in such circumstances authority to pass immoral and unjust laws ? |
| 21 | Could it be that statements about the professional development of teachers are mostly rhetoric , or at least moral rather than empirical argument ? |
| 22 | Unless such a study is organised then how long will it be before hospitals begin to pressurise surgeons to be regularly tested ? |
| 23 | It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism . |
| 24 | So it 's that Vibes question again . |
| 25 | It 's because subscriptions for new members are set at fifteen hundred pounds to make sure no one joins . |
| 26 | It 's because payments are automatically linked to inflation , which now stands at one point eight per cent . |
| 27 | The Scottish summary of what it is that parents value in teachers and what makes a poor ( as well as a good ) teacher ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) is in some ways an up-to-date version of parts of Enquiry 1 ( Schools Council 1968 ) . |
| 28 | It is also a fact which should be given careful consideration in the attempt to determine why it is that girls rather than boys tend to become anorexic . |
| 29 | It is natural to ask … why it is that countries have Constitutions , why most of them make the Constitution superior to the ordinary law , and , further , why Britain , at any rate , has no Constitution , in this sense , at all . |
| 30 | Any decision in favour of participating in a CU depends upon the ultimate objectives of economic policy , namely what it is that countries are attempting to maximise . |