Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them enclosed letters to be forwarded to her . |
| 2 | The first time I read about a sex change something happened deep inside me : all my vague feelings about being a girl found a focus even though all the stories were about men who became ’ . |
| 3 | My early days at were not quite the era of the quill pen but at Ipswich and Rotherhithe , London SE16 , we had chest high desks with stools to match . |
| 4 | Please help me , as the problem is ruining my feeble efforts at being Clapton , Hendrix , Green and Moore all rolled into one ! |
| 5 | My earliest memories of being abused are of going into a neighbour 's house when I was five or six and getting money for what he made me do . |
| 6 | Asked what he thinks of the pro-Labour stance , Blakenham adds cagily : ‘ I would n't like my own views to be taken out of context . ’ |
| 7 | Because what I really want , after all , is to give them a true belief , and I know very well that , although I want my own beliefs to be true ( because that 's what makes them useful ) , we can all make mistakes . |
| 8 | Those G Ps told me , I thought I was listening to my own speeches to be honest , from about a year or two ago . |
| 9 | First of all I want my young reporters to be able to observe . |
| 10 | I shrugged , as if I thought them honourable scars to be gained in my lady 's service . |
| 11 | In opposition she particularly urged her front-bench spokesmen to be attentive to the party 's back-bench committees relevant to their subjects . |
| 12 | Of course , she too eventually left my staff to get married , but I can vouch that during the time she worked as housekeeper under me , she was nothing less than dedicated and never allowed her professional priorities to be distracted . |
| 13 | British patients wait longer than most of their European neighbours to be seen by a hospital doctor , and for many the wait is not just weeks but months — months that may potentially make a great difference to their condition , as German et al show ( p 429 ) . |
| 14 | Few voters gave her low ratings for being tough or decisive , and they were an unpredictable few . |
| 15 | She thinks we 're perverts , condemned by the Church , men who 've allowed their normal natures to be twisted by depraved men . |
| 16 | By and large , most businesses would give their hind legs to be in an industry which was growing at 7% a year and where there were huge barriers to entry . |
| 17 | The Council of Castile , in spite of its repeated claims to be the only legally constituted authority , was discredited by its supposed subservience to Murat ; its orders were treated with contempt by the Provincial Juntas . |
| 18 | So should the law allow mercy killing — ‘ euthanasia ’ — to be available to those patients suffering incurable diseases who do not want their painful lives to be prolonged ? |
| 19 | In The Unbearable Lightness of Being , the Czech exile Sabina disturbs her French friends by being unable to last out a parade held to protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 : ‘ She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism , Fascism , behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic , pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison . ’ |
| 20 | That is why self-conscious fictional experimentation like stream-of-consciousness tends in its social effects to be conservative , whatever its aspirations ; and the later fiction of Joyce and Virginia Woolf can not be seen to embody any serious proposal to change the world , or to represent a belief that the world could ever be changed . |
| 21 | They made agreements with their foreign customers to be paid in goods instead of money . |
| 22 | They were too old for most of the jobs which provided training and which only recruit school or college leavers , and too young for many of the adult jobs which required recruits to be over 21 , and where employers preferred those who were married , with a family and a large mortgage . |
| 23 | Robyn stretched her arms high above her head , releasing some of the tension in her aching shoulders from being hunched over her drawing-board for so long . |
| 24 | Economic growth in the open world market economy has been so great that few governments are now in strong enough control over their civil societies to be able to deny them the chance to participate in this wealth-creating system . |
| 25 | Furthermore , earlier studies of patients with duodenal ulcer disease , who were presumably mostly infected , showed their parietal cells to be , if anything more sensitive to gastrin than those of controls , although it was not known whether the controls were infected with H pylori . |
| 26 | BEVERLEY Allitt attended a local school in Lincolnshire and was noticed only for her constant attempts to be at the centre of attention . |
| 27 | But certainty and infallibility are not identical , and we are trying to explain a theory which takes its basic beliefs to be infallible . |
| 28 | It is only on the basis of such a model that the government , which considers one of its basic functions to be the management of the economy , can predict what the effect will be of a change in one of its policies . |
| 29 | Storytellers described its eyes as flashing crystal , and its glistening feathers to be made of pure gold — a single one could light up a darkened room . |
| 30 | Barges had been destroyed for fuel or left by their previous owners to be broken up by ice or swept downstream by the spring floods . |