Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social worker must believe the best results for everyone are achieved when both parties have an equal right to be heard . |
| 2 | The report also found that the overwhelming majority of lone parents are women , most of whom are divorced or separated ; single mothers are the smallest group of lone parents . |
| 3 | 7.5.1.1 the Premises or the Retained Parts or any part of either of them are damaged or any part of them are damaged or destroyed by any of the [ Insured Risks or Insured Risks except one against which insurance may not ordinarily be arranged with an insurer of repute for properties such as the Premises unless the Landlord has in fact insured against that risk ] so that the Premises or any part of them are unfit for occupation or use and |
| 4 | Some of them are typed and some are written — you know , by hand like . |
| 5 | ‘ I am determined that this exciting opportunity should not be lost , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ Let me in for I am lost and alone and frightened . |
| 7 | The more I drink , the more I am persuaded that young wines offer most pleasure ; a constantly renewable resource , popping up fresh every year . |
| 8 | I am informed that local authorities currently have to make their requests through the police . |
| 9 | These figures do not allow any sum for interest and therefore it may be that calculations will have to be made by council to include that figure or alternatively I am informed that both parties wish to consider the possibility of the incorporation of this judgement into a structured settlement . |
| 10 | John MacGregor , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food I am advised that hard cheese processes suppress and kill off pathogens . |
| 11 | I am advised that local authorities seeking simply to provide the public with access to a comprehensive range of artistic and literary materials will not be put at risk by this provision . |
| 12 | Oh I am qualified if that 's what 's worrying you . |
| 13 | Well I am told that that is the earliest thing at all . |
| 14 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 15 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 16 | And I am told that another Metro got similar treatment in Newtownards on that Friday evening . |
| 17 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 18 | I AM saddened and appalled by an incident which happened two months ago when a female security guard chasing a thief knocked my 67-year-old mother off her feet . |
| 19 | We do n't have a dishwasher either but I 'm assured that these two things can Totally Change Your Life and you wonder how you ever lived without them . |
| 20 | It 's the way I can get ease June , I 'm eased when this . |
| 21 | I 'm disturbed that one or two suppliers of environmentally-friendly products seem to be adopting conventionally unscrupulous tactics in order to sell their goods . |
| 22 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 23 | I 'm told that professional painters now have shade cards that provide a selection of 3,000 colours . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm told that nine inches of rain fell during the twenty-four hours prior to the flood , and that five of those inches were in one single hour , ’ he said . |
| 25 | I have never seen an avocet in Cornwall , but I 'm told that this rare and unique bird has been spotted on these marshes . |
| 26 | If I were experienced and sophisticated like Marise , he might get involved with me anyway , because he 'd know that I understood the game and would n't get hurt . |
| 27 | Immediately I felt worried lest I be seen as different from the others . |
| 28 | Office : a relatively permanent position within the social structure to which someone is appointed or qualified , for example , electrician , nurse , pilot |
| 29 | ‘ At the worst , even when I was bound and blind and mad , I swear it never touched you or anything that was yours . |
| 30 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |