Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told that within the terms of the contract nothing could be done . |
| 2 | Before Christ 's mass I will be gone , back into the world . |
| 3 | In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture , a different climate , with different people . |
| 4 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 5 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
| 6 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 7 | Of course I may be prejudiced — he called me Old Faithful . ’ |
| 8 | Of course I can be mistaken about the meanings of the words I use , but this will not show that I have any mistaken beliefs about my present sensory states . |
| 9 | ‘ In ten minutes I will be finished here . |
| 10 | We 'd arrived and Mr Tuckett had driven off and within minutes I could be seen , from the street , through the open curtains , upstairs in a bedroom . |
| 11 | The notion of ‘ protection ’ is not necessarily concerned with protecting participants from emotion , for unless there is some kind of emotional engagement nothing can be learned , but rather to protect them into emotion . |
| 12 | ‘ Several minutes after we returned , my station officer called me in to his office and warned me that as I was not working by London Ambulance Service guidelines I would be stood down without pay . ’ |
| 13 | And on the day of confirmation I will be confirmed by the bishop . |
| 14 | I asked him not to say any more to me , since at that time I represented the Labour Party and felt it quite possible that if he brought any action I would be called upon to act for them . |
| 15 | ‘ If I was a horse I 'd be called ‘ over the top ’ . |
| 16 | That 's if we get a typewriter I will be gone ! |
| 17 | When in early Christian Rome they converted pagan temples into churches , they removed all the symbols of the old religion which could be torn out without endangering the structure . |
| 18 | A form of religion which can be rationalised to meet the needs of the foregoing , is not to be found anywhere in the whole vast accumulation of religions and sects that the world has yet produced . |
| 19 | For them it is all part of a culture and religion which must be tolerated . |
| 20 | For one thing , they will limit the forward speed which can be developed . |
| 21 | Plotting the graphic sorting characteristics of the same sediment gradients enables recognition of the sorting characteristics which may be expected to occur with sediments from each depositional environment ( Fig. 3.13 ) . |
| 22 | When , for example , God is thought of as like light , the metaphor is meant to bring into play all kinds of overtones and ideas which can help the user to a greater understanding of the word God : light shares some characteristics which can be applied to God — but ones which can not be neatly packaged up in literal words . |
| 23 | Er , here the Policy and Resources Committee also consider that only brought on capital which again issue guidelines which will be reviewed , at the end of January for a final erm , proposal in February . |
| 24 | For the desktop publishing tyro , however , there are some sensible guidelines which can be observed in order to prevent too terrifying an experience during the initial phase . |
| 25 | The answer to the third is that the Criminal Justice Act 1991 introduced new guidelines which can be passed from the magistrates to the social services to ensure that from October this year juveniles can be remanded in custody under certain conditions not previously available to the courts . |
| 26 | Conversely , a low fibre diet did not lead to changes in cellular proliferation which might be associated with mucosal instability . |
| 27 | The trick is easy if there are birch trees about ; then there is always an abundance of dead twigs which can be snapped easily off the trunks . |
| 28 | Examples of animals which might be chosen are pigs , horses , cows , cats , dogs , ducks and sheep . |
| 29 | There are many features of animals which could be improved on , and which are as they are because of the legacy of the past . |
| 30 | Their effects can not be isolated from the HLCA system ; in essence it has been the availability of substantial levels of grant plus the guarantee of HLCAs on the increased numbers of animals which can be kept on the agriculturally improved grassland , which together have constituted a substantial incentive for such capital improvements . |