Example sentences of "[vb base] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , the rules of dress or of how we eat are unwritten guides to behaviour . |
| 2 | Moreover , what we perceive far exceeds what actually interacts with our nervous system ; for what interacts with our nervous systems is occurrent energy and what we perceive are continuant objects ( see earlier , p. 98 ) . |
| 3 | Now the choices and values are not only what I trust are right choices and correct beliefs ; they are my choices , my beliefs , my convictions |
| 4 | But I suppose they 're all boys really , I mean are all boys like this really ? |
| 5 | Well , different utilities , different roads are being destroyed , bridges , I mean are these things going on ? |
| 6 | I mean are these noodles or |
| 7 | Despite their elaborate plumage , peafowl are competent fliers and can frequently be seen in trees ( right ) . |
| 8 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 9 | What our valleys want are better schools , better hospitals and better housing . |
| 10 | Responding to what they say are inaccurate press stories — which we have not seen — Micro Focus Plc has issued a statement with Microsoft Corp 's concurrence , saying that their current agreement between will expire on September 30 , but that both want to continue their business relationship into the future and are exploring the terms for the new agreement ; as if to emphasise the point , Microsoft yesterday announced shipment of Microsoft Cobol professional development system version 5.0 for Windows , with support for the Visual Basic programming system for Windows and embedded structure query language ; it says the new release incorporates the latest version of the Micro Focus compiler , and creates executable files faster and smaller than previous releases ; it is $900 , now . |
| 11 | The move follows their dissatisfaction with what they say are deteriorating services throughout the area . |
| 12 | That their duvet cover is made of the Russian flag and the Union Jack can be passed by ; better are such details as the fact that Russians call spam ‘ Roosevelt smile ’ ; the question of whether Down 's syndrome chidren are known as Mongols in the USSR , and a dispute over private medicine : ‘ You think I 've fled 1,000 miles from scientific communism just to live with Mrs Engels ? ’ asks Slava . |
| 13 | For Berkeley , then , what we see and what we touch are different things . |
| 14 | what I suggest is these procedures are , we briefly mentioned this this morning , are supposed to reflect the best practice of what we do now . |
| 15 | Oh I 've done about four , but we were having trouble with he want 's some books he likes books , but wo n't give us a clue and |
| 16 | If you 're available on Friday or Saturday October 1–2 , contact War On Want 's head office at |
| 17 | What they forget is that rationality is opposed to absurdity , not to mystery . |
| 18 | Before the final had begun , when Forget had put their chances at about 3–1 against and French president , Phillipe Chatrier believed that they had no more than one in five chance of achieving the prize which had been his ultimate goal from the time that he led the French tennis revolution in 1968 , Forget 's possible vulnerability in moments of such stress had been one of the chief causes for such concern . |
| 19 | The man as I say is all Raskolnikov . |
| 20 | ‘ . But if rule-following is a practice , which must be public only in the sense of being a way of behaving rather than in the sense of being regulated by a community , how are we to derive from that thought the conclusion that the solipsist 's private language is impossible ? |
| 21 | What people want is low risk . ’ |
| 22 | All I want is easy knobs to turn with |
| 23 | We are well aware of this problem and the last thing we want is ex-service men having to live in temporary accommodation . |
| 24 | so the last thing they want is extra children to come in . |
| 25 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 26 | The length you want is 46 cms , 46 × 4 = 148 rows . |
| 27 | What you want is that sugar stuff what they 'll take back to nest . |
| 28 | Old fashioned notions , perhaps , but since what you want is old-fashioned marriage , those are the principles on which it should be based . |
| 29 | What we want is down-to-earth accountability , not lots of incomprehensible grand ideas . |
| 30 | What our users want is adequate information about regular , punctual services , on buses which give them a comfortable ride in a clean environment , driven by skilled and courteous drivers . |