Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One word of warning though : if you are someone whose daily life involves a strong competitive element , you would do well to avoid too much in the way of competitive sport ( squash , tennis and so on ) as your form of exercise as these will only tend to maintain an already high level of stress . |
| 2 | Whilst not every child has the aptitude for sport , with such a large choice of activities in the country , there 's bound to be something which each child can enjoy . |
| 3 | Confiding in a friend when unhappy or worried tended to be something which young women rather than young men were inclined to do . |
| 4 | Such aggression could be very disturbing to young workers submitting their first paper , although experienced researchers are used to it and it seems to be something which most people are prepared to put up with . |
| 5 | Newcastle , York , all them big places use to be what they all specials . |
| 6 | Are they them crispy things ? |
| 7 | That said , the viola playing of Tabea Zimmermann ( are they her own arrangements ? — we 're not told ) is peculiarly eloquent , especially in ‘ Wasserflut ’ and ‘ Der Leiermann ’ . |
| 8 | Are they your usual clientele ? |
| 9 | Were I her honoured guest , she could not have used me more generously . ’ |
| 10 | All her agitation of the summer she suddenly saw as moving towards this end — she had known , without knowing it , of this tragedy , she had been what her old mistress had called ‘ pre-sentimental ’ . |
| 11 | After a hard days slog in the office making real-life management decisions , there is nothing your average manager likes doing more than sitting down at home making pretend management decisions governing the career development of an amoeba . |
| 12 | But what if there is someone whose own fulfilment is simply not best promoted by this sort of relationship with others ? |
| 13 | Show 's you what two years does to you . |
| 14 | It 's you you smelly git in n it ? |
| 15 | ‘ So , is you who these filth are looking for ? |
| 16 | Is she our new person now ? |
| 17 | Admitting that 17 people were wrongly imprisoned is something whose electoral consequences , if any , are difficult to calculate . |
| 18 | ‘ The decline of America is something we all sense . |
| 19 | This is something which many flyers find to be extremely difficult and here , as before , the longer you delay the potentially more difficult it becomes . |
| 20 | A personal philosophy is something which all people have no matter what their background , class , or educational attainment . |
| 21 | That is something which most people concerned about conservation regard as laudable ; it is a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 22 | ENTERTAINING — whether a formal party or dinner for a few friends — is something which most people enjoy . |
| 23 | This is something which human beings exploit to their advantage . |
| 24 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 25 | Producing elisions is something which foreign learners do not need to learn to do , but it is important for them to be aware that when native speakers of English talk to each other , quite a number of phonemes that the foreigner might expect to hear are not actually pronounced . |
| 26 | ‘ This is something our relevant surveyors in both Edinburgh and Glasgow offices are receiving more and more requests for , ’ said , a partner with Jones Lang Wootton . |
| 27 | Here there may arise a conflict between two principles , one that the court will not imply a term unless it is one which reasonable men would obviously have agreed to if their minds had been directed to the point , the other that a contract should if possible be interpreted in such a way as to achieve fairness between the parties … mistake is a much more difficult problem … [ than fraud or partiality ] . |
| 28 | The principle of paraphrase ( or " same meaning in different form " ) is one which many schools of linguistic thought continue to take for granted as a basic fact of language . |
| 29 | This of course is a value judgement which a government is entitled to make , but it is one which some economists would argue is not fully justified by the evidence , on the basis of which there have been calls for much more stringent control . |
| 30 | It has often been said that the non-neurotic person is one whose repressive mechanisms work well . |