Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am but mad north-north-west . |
| 2 | HAMLET : I am but mad north north-west ; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw . |
| 3 | Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting . |
| 4 | All the craftsmen took a real pride in their work , receiving only one shilling and threepence an hour but still realising how much better off they were than previous generations . |
| 5 | well over , over a period , it 's and other things too but they sa they said that murals and proggie mats are involved in it . |
| 6 | Well , well , over , over a period it 's and other things too but this this set of murals and are involved in it . |
| 7 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 8 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 9 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
| 10 | It is because carbon-based molecules are necessary for the kind of life that we find on Earth , and because those molecules are of necessity complex , that life itself is fragile . |
| 11 | It is because primary schools are difficult to classify in any but the most general terms that the phrase ‘ mixed methods ’ is used to describe the practices found in the great majority of them . |
| 12 | It is because young people of both sexes are increasingly seeking work on the mainland , instead of participating in the precarious agricultural island economy as their elders continue to do . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is because six-time major-winner Lee Trevino shares a background with his caddie Willie Aitchison that the two have developed such a close relationship over the years . |
| 14 | It is because evil spirits do not fit — have no logical place or space — into the modern scientific world-view . |
| 15 | It is because organisational members see their authority as legitimate that they are prepared to obey . |
| 16 | If one seeks to understand the way in which politics is gradually dragged into the gutter , it is because hon. Members come out with such a simplistic approach . |
| 17 | ( It is because Christian feminists see such an incongruity that they want to adapt or reinterpret the myth . ) |
| 18 | It is because human societies pursue values that their study falls within the province of history rather than biology . |
| 19 | Well if you save tax yes it is or bad planning try to keep it as broad as we possibly can . |
| 20 | If this sort of account is true to the facts , then it is a consideration against any factual connection of the type Minsky envisaged between conscious access and ‘ reprogramming or debugging ’ , at least it is if lower-level translations normally exist as ( undebuggable ) compilations . |
| 21 | ‘ If I look pale as a lily , 't is because fresh air is too rarely on the menu . |
| 22 | Nor can any reconstructed , facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant . |
| 23 | It was that fiendish Perdita Macleod . |
| 24 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 25 | Partly this was due to cost , but mainly it was because French cathedrals are so vast and so lofty , with high vaults of great span , that a steeple became too great an engineering hazard . |
| 26 | According to the radical Right , it was because free market forces had been stultified by the welfare state and the managed economy … . |
| 27 | If ideas as such were discounted , it was because imaginative literature , in its richness and blend of diversity and harmony , had other things to offer . |
| 28 | He stayed right where he was until good manners forced her to offer to make him a drink too . |
| 29 | Yeah , everyone said how nice he was and old Dr was quite a character |
| 30 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |