Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why am I here at all ? |
| 2 | Are you normally in reverse video ? |
| 3 | ‘ Are you up for all this ? ’ |
| 4 | are you up to two days at the Co-Op now ? |
| 5 | Anyway , what are you up to these days ? |
| 6 | ‘ And what are you up to these days ? ’ said the friend . |
| 7 | What villainy are you up to this time ? ’ |
| 8 | What , what are you up to this evening on the sport front ? |
| 9 | Why are you here at eight o'clock in the morning ? ’ |
| 10 | Are you here for good ? |
| 11 | And she would say , ‘ How long are you here for this time ? ’ praying it would be weeks instead of days … . |
| 12 | Or are you in on this aspect as well ? ’ |
| 13 | Where are you off to this time ? |
| 14 | Are you about through this list , Theodore ? ’ |
| 15 | Are you back to normal now ? |
| 16 | Why are we here in 61 ? |
| 17 | Are we on to any other business ? |
| 18 | The talks had taken place in a remarkably cordial atmosphere , and at a joint press conference at their conclusion on May 4 , de Klerk declared that he regarded the working document [ see below ] as " an important breakthrough in the peaceful process " , while Mandela said that as a result " not only are we closer to one another , but we are all of us victors " . |
| 19 | Are we still on this one Si |
| 20 | Where are we off to this morning then , so sunk in our own fantasies and imaginings that we can not be troubled to look out for vulnerable senior citizens , eh ? ’ |
| 21 | Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ? |
| 22 | Erm , are they actually in particular areas , grouped and , and particular age groups which may be causing these incidents ? |
| 23 | Were you away with this British Legion thing ? |
| 24 | What were you up to last night ? ’ |
| 25 | We were you ever under any sort of direct pressure to keep the money |
| 26 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 27 | Were it not for certain agreeable female attributes , you could very nearly pass yourself off as his double . ’ |
| 28 | Were it not for this fact of nature we would n't have our time-of-day language . |
| 29 | Were it not for human judgement and conscience being clouded by such a comfortable belief , and fears of retribution being removed by the further endowment of the ‘ god ’ with a power to forgive transgressions , many of the unwise human acts which lead on to unhappiness , would never have been undertaken . |
| 30 | Were it not for these he would not have produced any of the philosophy for which he is now remembered . |