Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone has learned how to operate a word-processor or complete an accurate and intelligible technical drawing then it may be that these are skills he can build upon and will not have to relearn . |
| 2 | These are suits you can push to the limit . |
| 3 | Yes , there are times we should cut the crap and get on with the ‘ real ’ issues of starvation and disease , but to dismiss all problems of prejudice and inequality as whining self-pity is callous beyond belief . |
| 4 | Indian journalists are busily burrowing into the business affairs of the prime minister 's family , and there are signs they might find something embarrassing . |
| 5 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 6 | Be they established classics or minor masterpieces , these are books you will want to keep . |
| 7 | As long as I am President we will continue to lead in support of freedom everywhere , not out of arrogance , and not out of altruism , but for the safety and security of our children . " |
| 8 | As we are time-travellers we can peer into the future and notice that it is the professional class that will have the last laugh ; for the ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ( as Marx called them ) took over from the gentry . |
| 9 | Had we been animals we would have hunted co-operatively , bred regularly and protected one another rigorously . |
| 10 | There are steps you can take to counter the effects of nervousness but try not to get worked up about staying calm along with everything else . |
| 11 | Of course , there are matters we can get angry about which seem far closer to God 's concerns than others . |
| 12 | A number of these things that I have already raised this morning are perhaps are , er primary phase issues rather than secondary but we must remember that the pressures on secondary schools continue as in the primary phase and finally another concern which you are all very well aware of and which particularly if you 're governors you will have drawn to your attention constantly is erm the continuing concern about our educational building stock both in terms of its adequacy as regards the size and the capacity of the accommodation at , where some schools are concerned its need for repair and maintenance work and its need for adaptation to meet the new demands of the curriculum . |
| 13 | And if they 're professionals they 'll know it , too . |
| 14 | First of all they say that if she thinks that they 're waxworks she should pay , and then they say that if she thinks that they are real , she should be talking to them . |
| 15 | And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school . |
| 16 | So there are applications you can use them and some you ca n't . |
| 17 | There are places you can go . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And if they flinch at the sight of the salt , there are persuasions I can use . ’ |
| 19 | Cos there are things they can do themselves . |
| 20 | His conversion to Islam , his rejection of that faith and the subsequent , troubled period , when the disease had made him all but unrecognizable to any but a few close friends , are things we may wish to pass over today , but — ’ |
| 21 | Well there are things we can do , er there thing , basically it 's about finding er a way of shifting priorities . |
| 22 | However , locally there are things we can do er in terms of trying to improve the kind , er the amount of support available er to er young people and single people in general , who are in this predicament . |
| 23 | ‘ I am sorry to disturb you , Abu , ’ said Owen , ‘ but there are things I would know . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We should talk ; there are things I should explain … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ There are things I should have said to you that I did n't . |
| 26 | Those are things I can relate to . ’ |
| 27 | I ask your pardon for leaving you waiting at the door , but I 'm pressed , Owen , the days crowd me , and there are things I must set forward while I may . |
| 28 | There are things I must do to you . ’ |
| 29 | There are things I must attend to . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , but also there are things you should know , as we 'll be working together . ’ |