Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must be the one to tell me I am doing the right thing . ’ |
| 2 | Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else . |
| 3 | I I 'm taking the bits out . |
| 4 | I mean I I I 'm confusing the notation but I 've put little quotes round it . |
| 5 | I I was leaving the the sort of exceptions part of it and the game at the moment and asking , because I appreciate that you and Mr Donson for different reasons both want erm a policy that provides for exceptions . |
| 6 | The seller must be someone who is hiring the vehicle under a hire purchase agreement or buying it under a conditional sale agreement . |
| 7 | If you are replacing someone who is leaving the firm then it is essential to know why they are going . |
| 8 | so , I we 're taking the train or walking ? |
| 9 | Unamuno also wrote : ‘ Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion ’ — a very Zen Buddhist concept of which I was to learn the truth in Salamanca . |
| 10 | I turned the pages ; but the top of the pew in front of me , upon which I was balancing the book , was narrow and my fingers cold . |
| 11 | A doubt grew into my mind : perhaps the whole certainty of purpose with which I was fighting the war was based on equally naive assumptions . |
| 12 | So you got ta weigh that up against er , doing two plans , which you 're paying the true cost of the benefits you would get . |
| 13 | Good balance is the effective control over your centre of gravity , relative to the direction in which you are delivering the ball . |
| 14 | Simple : the atomic reaction you expect is n't taking place , the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength . |
| 15 | Is not the difficulty in which you are placed the fact that there are now only four Government Back-Bench Members representing Scotland , and 63 of different parties on the Opposition side of the House ? |
| 16 | The magnetopause marks the inner boundary of the agitated region which itself is called the magnetosheath . |
| 17 | Blaise Cendrars witnessed a fight in which she was getting the better of Modigliani . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's a good sign , ’ she told the clipboard on which she was entering the details of his pulse rate . |
| 19 | Our eyes were glued to the large plate into which she was placing the cooked ones . |
| 20 | One friend has explained how , in a conversation in which she was lamenting the cost of electricity , Eliot asked her in a confidential manner , " Are you on the domestic tariff ? " |
| 21 | And that was when her conscience , which because she 'd got something else to think about had stayed quiet , suddenly started to get to her about the way in which she was deceiving the man she loved . |
| 22 | In late 1916 Nina Boyle went to Macedonia and Serbia to do war-relief work , for which she was awarded the Samaritan medal and the Allied medal . |
| 23 | Obviously we have n't gone for wholesale personnel changes , so you 're the hook on which we 're hanging the idea , a new programme manager whose own image is the station 's — young , smart , sophisticated and committed to the music . |
| 24 | but every now and then we get something with a special offer on which we 're getting the Kelloggs cornflake bowls at the moment . |
| 25 | So all I 'm saying is , if we 're not achieving that we need to go back and look at the way in which we 're operating the fax service , have a chat with erm Phil 's people or Jackie 's peo see if there 's any differences that we can take advantage of . |
| 26 | To criticise language for being ‘ misleading ’ as to the state of affairs in the real world is to tilt at windmills , because language is not so much a limpid pool through which we are to glimpse the truth as a muddy pond full of the debris of history and ideology . |
| 27 | High and low angles are often used as point-of-view shots in which we are seeing the scenes through the eyes of one of the characters . |
| 28 | Later that day , 15 Oct , at The Questors Theatre in Ealing , he will be the guest of honour at a fund-raising event for the Questors in which we are promised the opportunity to ‘ find out what makes a critic , what are his prejudices and his preferences , and what are his fears and hopes for British ( and world ) theatre . ’ |
| 29 | THE MINEMA IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE makes a welcome reopening with La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , the shorter version of Jacques Rivette 's splendid La Belle Noiseuse which runs for four hours and which we were shown the other day . |
| 30 | Thus two stages of the movement can be distinguished : a stage of liberal democracy when a competitive political system was introduced alongside the market economy , and a stage of social democracy in which there is expressed the idea of the political dominance of the most numerous class — the working class — and of the transformation of the market economy into a socialist economy . |