Example sentences of "[pron] be [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am but mad north-north-west . |
| 2 | HAMLET : I am but mad north north-west ; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw . |
| 3 | Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting . |
| 4 | If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is . |
| 5 | If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is . |
| 6 | One is whether binary oppositions exist in language to be discovered , or whether they are constructed as a convenient method of analysing language . |
| 7 | One is if local elements are arranged in parallel with independent access to the output mechanisms . |
| 8 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 9 | Whatever lucky chances there were and miraculous escapes , all through history there have been despoliations , deprivations , tearings asunder , deaths and devastations , and among those to whom nothing is restored must be people around us , people we see . |
| 10 | All the craftsmen took a real pride in their work , receiving only one shilling and threepence an hour but still realising how much better off they were than previous generations . |
| 11 | well over , over a period , it 's and other things too but they sa they said that murals and proggie mats are involved in it . |
| 12 | Well , well , over , over a period it 's and other things too but this this set of murals and are involved in it . |
| 13 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 14 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 15 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
| 16 | It is because carbon-based molecules are necessary for the kind of life that we find on Earth , and because those molecules are of necessity complex , that life itself is fragile . |
| 17 | It is because primary schools are difficult to classify in any but the most general terms that the phrase ‘ mixed methods ’ is used to describe the practices found in the great majority of them . |
| 18 | It is because young people of both sexes are increasingly seeking work on the mainland , instead of participating in the precarious agricultural island economy as their elders continue to do . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is because six-time major-winner Lee Trevino shares a background with his caddie Willie Aitchison that the two have developed such a close relationship over the years . |
| 20 | It is because evil spirits do not fit — have no logical place or space — into the modern scientific world-view . |
| 21 | It is because organisational members see their authority as legitimate that they are prepared to obey . |
| 22 | If one seeks to understand the way in which politics is gradually dragged into the gutter , it is because hon. Members come out with such a simplistic approach . |
| 23 | ( It is because Christian feminists see such an incongruity that they want to adapt or reinterpret the myth . ) |
| 24 | It is because human societies pursue values that their study falls within the province of history rather than biology . |
| 25 | Well if you save tax yes it is or bad planning try to keep it as broad as we possibly can . |
| 26 | If this sort of account is true to the facts , then it is a consideration against any factual connection of the type Minsky envisaged between conscious access and ‘ reprogramming or debugging ’ , at least it is if lower-level translations normally exist as ( undebuggable ) compilations . |
| 27 | ‘ If I look pale as a lily , 't is because fresh air is too rarely on the menu . |
| 28 | Nor can any reconstructed , facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant . |
| 29 | It was that fiendish Perdita Macleod . |
| 30 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |