Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 . But on crime prevention , I 'm for most part in plain clothes , I use my own car work and , I 'm not in a marked car , I do n't have a radio because my job , as I said from the beginning is very varied and therefore it 's not practical for me to have a radio .
2 And that 's where we are and this morning .
3 Now she was where we were and that office junior turned up she would have gone for there and I prob bet she will probably be quite
4 I 'd like to , just like to say that a woman erm , who can not have children erm and re has got to the end of the road , no medical mirac , miracles can help her , erm , if surrogacy is the only option for her then they 've , these pe , couples like myself have gone through such a long erm struggle to get where they are that any child that 's conceived is gon na be a wonderfully loved childed and explained , everything 's explained to the child as he or she grows up .
5 They are and any theory of species origins must explain why .
6 If they are and this kind of tragedy occurs then they must be punished for such behaviour . ’
7 I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they !
8 The trouble for him was that this manifesto — ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ — had also made his party entirely unelectable .
9 In early ethnic models of settlement origin it was assumed that this was a Celtic pattern of settlement , but could it be that this pattern in fact represents the oldest arrangements in the landscape ?
10 you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ?
11 It 's that same adhesive — it looks as if it will have to be withdrawn ; there 's definitely some harmful irritant in it . ’
12 It 's because another judge refused to let BR challenge a quarter of the damages pay out .
13 It may not be so any longer and it 's because this report deals with this aspect that I feel this a vital and important matter er that that in fact comes in front of us .
14 And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that .
15 Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life .
16 It is that same voyage of discovery that the organisers of The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition are hoping the public will experience through the 100 pieces of work they have put on show .
17 But it is that same obstinacy or , put another way , determination to win , that has not only made him a successful captain , but also into one of the most feared batsmen in the world .
18 It is that any work of art , of whatever kind or genre , must be experienced ‘ aesthetically ’ .
19 We have already seen how unlikely it is that any party would go before the electorate avowing such differences : an exhibition of disunity would be too damaging to its chances of success .
20 How refreshing it is that this year 's number one is Whitney Houston 's I Will Always Love You .
21 M my view about this is that it 's it it is it is that this exercise is that it is er something which has been done very quickly and to my mind is not capable of providing the level of assessment that would be required .
22 We have very little as it is and this plan will just wipe it out .
23 It is because that fear exists that some home owners know perfectly well that they have the Government over a barrel .
24 ‘ We did n't get the rub of the green and felt we deserved something , but we got zilch and I think it is because this Villa side are so good .
25 It is because this garret is at the very heart of Government .
26 However if the glucose is maintained high , in other words if the stimulus is sustained , what we see is a succession of depolarizing spikes , and the reason we see it is because this elevation of free calcium , not only leads to a insulin secretion , it also leads to the opening of calcium activated K channels which tend to hyperpolarize the membrane .
27 It is because this reaction is directed outwards against the invading motion that the phantasms are experienced as though they were the external objects which initially caused them .
28 It is not worthwhile retrieving the matched word strings themselves if the number of matches is too large , but it is if this number is within a reasonable limit .
29 Catch weights , so do n't matters what it was but that man who was weighing them he got no brains , if one was overweight and go down , the next one got ta be underweight and he 'd take that off that and put it on that , he was so quick , wh that 's what he , he was a good checker , they were good men then
30 And just as it was that the woman was instrumental in the fall of the human race , so it was that another woman was instrumental in its restoration .
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