Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me his was pluralist socialism at its best — in the service of the community . |
| 2 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 3 | That does n't seem to be so at some stages it is a little difficult getting it over as a as a a retired person talking to someone who is facing redundancy about retirement . |
| 4 | But of course the minute you put a , slap a cover on this information , it begins to , to change and people die and new governments are elected and whatever , er so yes , we are , we have in our employ someone who 's sole job it is to read all the newspapers , er watch the T V , all the media and keep all the information up to date , so the , that 's a full time job really and they 're working on the data base day and night |
| 5 | But if the idea of some indefinable menace frees your imagination , then there is nothing to stop you producing a suspense novel every bit as twanging with tension as a story in which someone is left hanging by one finger over a depthless gorge . |
| 6 | The letter suggests the payments were for MCC shares transferred to Liechtenstein trusts called stiftungs , and adds : ‘ It appears that companies of which I am joint administrator have substantial claims against the stiftungs and any other entities which benefited from these payments . ’ |
| 7 | We have now added to these three levels a Joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication examination ( for which I am Chief Examiner for the Oxford and Cambridge and East Midland Regional Examination Boards ) . |
| 8 | Even more explicit than My Secret Garden , ‘ women 's sexual fantasies ’ , which I am sure appeal as titillation rather than education . |
| 9 | The amount of the cost and planning for which you are responsible will , of course , depend on the particular venue . |
| 10 | K ap is true because in the nearest worlds in which you are sitting reading you believe that you are sitting reading , and the nearest worlds in which you are not sitting reading are either worlds in which you are standing/kneeling/lying reading or worlds in which you are sitting knitting/watching TV , etc. , but not worlds in which you happen to be asleep dreaming that you are sitting reading . |
| 11 | Then we heard somebody who was nearby murmur in a low voice , ‘ They were Fascists . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Dorothy , do you remember a story in the news some time ago about a chap who had somebody who was homeless living in the shed at the bottom of his garden ? ’ |
| 13 | And anyway , how can you commit criminal damage against a thing which itself is criminal damage ? ’ |
| 14 | This is one art at which she 's undisputed family champion . |
| 15 | Now he heads an organization of which she is honorary president . |
| 16 | Also the value 1708 relates specifically to the boundary conditions — rigid , isothermal walls — to which we are confining attention . ) |
| 17 | The idealism which inspired this Act of Parliament was eloquently expressed in the House of Commons by Alfred Morris , MP for Manchester , Wythenshawe who had originally introduced this measure as a Private Member 's Bill : If we could bequeath one precious gift to posterity , I would choose a society in which there is genuine compassion for the chronically sick and disabled ; where understanding is unostentatious and sincere ; where needs come before means ; where if years can not be added to their lives , at least life can be added to their years ; … where the disabled have a fundamental right to participate in industry and society according to ability ; where socially preventable distress is unknown ; and where none has cause to be ill at ease because of disability . |
| 18 | The breadth of study is maintained in the second year when Chemistry is taken with two other subjects for which there is wide choice including Astronomy , Business Studies , Chemical Pharmacology , Computer Science , Economics , Geology , Industrial Management , Maths , Physics and many others . |
| 19 | It is true that during the passage of the Bill , section 10 was explained as being intended to reflect the position at common law , in which there is respectable authority for the proposition that the client 's legal privilege can not attach to communications made with criminal intent . |
| 20 | Whatever their state of readiness and interest , each lesson is a constant stream of decision-making , and of matters of judgement , both large and small , about situations that are unprecedented , and for which there is insufficient time and usually not enough available information to be sure of getting it right . |
| 21 | Consciousness in other people is a hypothesis for which there is circumstantial evidence in their verbal reports which match , by-and-large , our verbal reports of our own experiences . |
| 22 | Presumably it could exist without that , but if you pare away everything which there is equal reason to pare away , you are left with something very strange . |
| 23 | Act 1974 for which there is ample evidence as shown by Lord Cullen 's report . |
| 24 | The court ruling in a suit brought by the Fund for Animals and other groups against the Interior Department means that the department 's Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed by September 1996 to propose for listing 400 species for which there is substantial evidence of the need for protection . |
| 25 | The events of crystallisation , on which there is general agreement , are ( i ) the making of a winding up order , ( ii ) the appointment of an administrative receiver , ( iii ) the company 's ceasing to carry on business , ( iv ) the taking of possession by the debentureholder and ( v ) the happening of an event expressly provided for in the debenture , often referred to as ‘ automatic crystallisation . ’ |
| 26 | In order to work properly the dominant forces in each of the three spheres have to monopolize the key resources for which there is great competition . |
| 27 | They should be constantly asking why a bottle is the shape it is and whether the ingredients come from a whale or from a natural substance of which there is great abundance . |
| 28 | Here I will limit discussion to two disciplines in which there is great activity . |
| 29 | If we adopt here Le Page 's distinction between focusing and diffuseness in language states , a community like Belfast is relatively diffuse ( divergent within itself ) in comparison with more homogeneous communities , but relatively focused when compared with communities in which there is extensive code-switching and code-mixing ( such as the Caribbean communities studied by Le Page and Tabouret-Keller , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | The offence is one in respect of which there is vicarious liability on the part of the licence-holder ( Sched. 5 ) . |