Example sentences of "[pron] be and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And that 's where we are and this morning . |
| 5 | Now she was where we were and that office junior turned up she would have gone for there and I prob bet she will probably be quite |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They are and any theory of species origins must explain why . |
| 9 | If they are and this kind of tragedy occurs then they must be punished for such behaviour . ’ |
| 10 | you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ? |
| 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 | We have very little as it is and this plan will just wipe it out . |
| 14 | Cos I had an awful experience about ooh , four years ago , I had this old Moggy Morris Minor coming along very slowly north of Hull it was and this chap and his about finished work you know , so I going past this cri , there 's a cricket match going on and he was looking like , I could see and his girlfriend ! |
| 15 | Yeah , everyone said how nice he was and old Dr was quite a character |
| 16 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 17 | You go on as you yourself are and one day you 'll be good . ’ |
| 18 | Although I can see the whole thing unrolling in my mind 's eye like a silent film , I ca n't really be precise about where everyone was and that sort of thing . ’ |