Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoping that some serious pound notes come after this fight I 'm getting despondent . ’ |
| 2 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 3 | Sebe , the " President-for-life " of the Ciskei homeland which was granted nominal independence by South Africa in 1981 , was absent from the country at the time . |
| 4 | This is not a consideration which applies to other factors of production : there is far less concern about the proportion of a country 's capital stock which is lying idle than there is about the proportion of the labour force which is unemployed . |
| 5 | It was a defeat which was to have profound and far-reaching consequences for state medical regulation of sexuality . |
| 6 | Lindsey smiled shyly , as they moved towards a battered black car which was parked close by . |
| 7 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 8 | A stolen car which was set alight at Acklam Rugby Club , Saltersgill Avenue , Middlesbrough , damaged part of the pitch . |
| 9 | Other companies have had similar troubles : Clerical Medical had to rid itself of an agent which was writing unauthorised business ; a Legal & General agent . |
| 10 | It 's just er a small section of foot of a footnote which gives an account of the history of the clause in er of the section in the er Police Act of nineteen sixty four with which we are dealing and of course Your Lordships will be well aware that we moved on from Section er from the Sections of the Police Act , we 're not dealing with them at all , we 're dealing with what has happened to those Clauses since and I thought perhaps Your Lordship might Your Lordships might be interested in the sort of guidance which is made available th so , so fortunately to us and so that we can have our minds very clearly focused upon the issues . |
| 11 | In Sinhalese imagery the two ends of a coconut represent respectively the penis of a man and the breasts of a woman and the preliminary separation of the two ends is appropriate at the beginning of a wedding which is to unite male and female . |
| 12 | Another alternative which is attracting increasing attention is the development of legal expenses insurances against such risks which has been welcomed and sponsored by The Law Society ( White , Robin , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | One alternative which is attracting increasing interest is drag hunting , where the horses and hounds chase an artificial scent . |
| 14 | The 19th century saw two significant changes in the newspaper industry which were to have considerable impact on future developments . |
| 15 | Some patients will be admitted to the ward for observation and investigations of a condition which is thought likely to need surgical treatment ; for example , to ascertain the cause of abdominal pain . |
| 16 | He summoned the waiter and , with the speed she was getting used to , paid the bill , and they left the restaurant , his hand on her arm . |
| 17 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 18 | In Ayr , the second most marginal seat in the United Kingdom , Phil Gallie , the successor to George Younger , held on by 85 votes seeing off Labour who were thought certain to seize the seat . |
| 19 | A 14-YEAR-old girl died yesterday after the stolen high-performance car she was driving somersaulted and crossed a dual carriageway after a police chase , police said . |
| 20 | A 14-YEAR-OLD girl died yesterday after the stolen high performance car she was driving somersaulted and crossed a dual carriageway after a police chase , police said . |
| 21 | A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was killed yesterday when the stolen high performance car she was driving somersaulted and crossed a dual carriageway during a police chase . |
| 22 | The sense of " Englishness " that English came to signify was apparently so free of any narrow patriotism or overtly nationalist or imperialist politics that any debate about the meaning of the term itself was deemed unnecessary until quite recently . |
| 23 | But it does seem to be again if we 're going back to Government guidance who are justifying extra policies to be brought forward to this alteration , it is a serious omission this alteration that there is no policy which deals with rural affordable housing . |
| 24 | In an attempt to avoid multiple transfers of the same bill , the private key itself is rendered non-transferable . |
| 25 | She was , apparently , an unemployed actress who was doing domestic work while she was ‘ resting ’ — I think that 's the euphemism they use . |
| 26 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
| 27 | The demonstration itself was filmed live by Czechoslovak television — itself a highly significant breakthrough . |
| 28 | The demonstration itself was filmed live by Czechoslovak television — itself a highly significant breakthrough . |
| 29 | Dr Paul Gibbs , Leatherhead Food Research Association We are giving sensible and balanced advice to consumers based on the best available advice of the Chief Medical Officer . |
| 30 | Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution . |