Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching her , Trent recalled sailing towards what he had expected to be his death the previous morning on Golden Girl … his sense of deprivation , of having been robbed of his right to a normal life . |
| 2 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 3 | Is my body the same ? |
| 4 | Yeah , that 's my sister the upper |
| 5 | Th the doctors over there need a lot to be desired , I mean that what 's , what 's his name the eldest son of er Jim and , Jim 's next door neighbours , what 's their , their names ? |
| 6 | I think it 's his neck the dodgy one |
| 7 | Is his J a middle initial or half of a first initial ? ) and K.J. Shine , as well as A.J. Wright , R.J. Scott , P.J. Prichard and N.J. Lenham , so we could have two J sides with no trouble . |
| 8 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 9 | There 's your job the first thing I should do is say well what are the key tasks , what are the areas that would mean results ? |
| 10 | And that 's your introduction the first sentence that somebody 's going to read , yeah ? |
| 11 | A difficult moment for me occurred when Phil Collins came on the show , simply because what I knew but he did n't , was that he was going to be my first guest on This Is Your Life the following week . |
| 12 | ‘ Is your husband an active man ? ’ |
| 13 | Teacher : Is your shadow the same shape as you ? |
| 14 | ‘ Is your mother a blonde ATS girl with a mole on her right shoulder and a slight lisp ? ’ |
| 15 | Is your baby a cheeky chappie or a sensitive soul ? |
| 16 | Mrs. Campbell insisted that Lord Milton should go over Sir James Campbell 's head and obtain a crown presentation , for ‘ if Bruce be our Minister the whole session will demit and a great division will be in the parish ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Is our school a good school ? ’ is unlikely to draw many negative responses or to provide much insight into the sources of satisfaction or dissatisfaction . |
| 18 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 19 | I was my hair every other day and usually only go to my hairdresser before a party . |
| 20 | to the last meeting , it was my understanding the same as everybody el everybody else that we have not the funds or budgeting for a camera in this financial year and that approved . |
| 21 | Nor was their purchase the straightforward financial operation they claimed . |
| 22 | Was their situation the same as that of young men ? |
| 23 | She thought , you see , that it was her fault the whole thing had happened . |
| 24 | And were your involvement the decision to carry out the search or was your involvement the operational search ? |
| 25 | ‘ Was your dream the same ? ’ |
| 26 | Was your father a good eater ? |