Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , if you do n't feel you want to cooperate with me I shall be justified in going ahead with my job and in leaving you free to act in any way you think fit . ’ |
| 2 | He ai n't , he 's pissed off , you wo n't catch me I 'll be gone , I mean ee ah what you doing I have n't got no petrol to fucking , drive round the town you cunt |
| 3 | I was interviewed by the Sudan Agent in London who gave me lunch at his club , and told me I would be called before a selection board when I came down from Oxford . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew if you made love to me I 'd be lost … drowning … beyond help . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If you need me I can be contacted on the phone . |
| 6 | While you are seeking me I will be found . |
| 7 | As as I see it er it 's and I I may be corrected on this , Professor Lock 's hypothesis is that we over-provide land and then limit release once an |
| 8 | Only , to say that I I I would be opposed because I believe you should delegate to committees to run their affairs and their resources in the way they want to . |
| 9 | Oh , I expect I I 'd be persuaded to do so . |
| 10 | Even I itself can be factorised in a variety of ways ; as one example , if J is the square matrix which has units in its secondary diagonal and zeros elsewhere , which we shall call the reversing matrix , then |
| 11 | At the time my idea of manhood was personified as someone who had to work hard at a job he hated in order to support not only himself , but other people whose very existence he resented ; someone who was forever having to make difficult decisions and take frightening initiatives , both of which ended in frustration ; and someone who might be called upon to fight in wars ( National Service was then still in operation ) and kill people . |
| 12 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 13 | How do you know that you have n't landed yourself with someone who 'll be struck dumb with nerves ? ’ |
| 14 | Someone who could be trained . |
| 15 | Successful schemes always had someone who could be identified as the driving force , someone who pushed and who steered the project through to a satisfactory launch . |
| 16 | Someone who could be trusted with confidences , give advice , and yet not be constrained and influenced by being your parent . |
| 17 | Billie , now having accepted Jenny as someone who could be trusted , settled herself down in the rear , albeit cramped , and spent most of the flight asleep . |
| 18 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ We were not condoning what he did or holding him up as someone who should be followed . |
| 19 | Generally , it is best to send out a strong opener , that is someone who can be relied upon to go all out for a victory . |
| 20 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |
| 21 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 22 | Perhaps the best way to start on this is to ask ourselves what would be lost if we were to speak without intonation : you should try to imagine speech in which every syllable was said on the same level pitch , with no pauses and no changes in speed or loudness . |
| 23 | And erm I I I find it I mean I 'm not going to be sort of holier than thou about it all I mean , perhaps I myself might be tempted er one day . |
| 24 | There could be nothing which might be regarded as clandestine . |
| 25 | Stocker was at pains to say : ‘ We have nothing which could be tested on humans … nothing yet which can help Aids patients or people infected with the Aids virus or any other virus . ’ |
| 26 | They agreed to do nothing which could be construed as recognition of the current Soviet government . |
| 27 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 28 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 29 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 30 | They can be teamed up with an additional pair of short curtains hanging above them which would be drawn at night , thus giving a tiered effect . |