Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the aim of social advancement is to reduce individual inequalities but the social environment which produced them is left intact ( on the assumption that these inequalities are due to inadequate education effort on the part of individuals , the state or to inequality of ‘ education gifts ’ ) , the aim of the collective advancement is to give individual education and , at the same time , influence the social context in which the individuals live : an effort is made to involve as many persons as possible in the education campaign . |
| 2 | And er rock er dropped use that expression , they used they were both right at the at the foot of the quarry face or precipice or whatever somewhere around a hundred foot high and then th they blasted the top see and dropped a whole fall . |
| 3 | However , as the contractor is free to time the work within the contract period it wold be illogical for the contractor to be able to claim the cost and time effects of an influence which might have caused further delay but did not in fact do so ; and in the situation described it is likely that the first cause rules . |
| 4 | Cranog Jones maintained he was innocent all through the trial . |
| 5 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |
| 6 | ‘ I really believed you was that horrible old man , ’ said Carrie in admiration . |
| 7 | I believed she was one hundred percent right . |
| 8 | Others believed it was some unknown , but benevolent , cosmic force . |
| 9 | Well this , this was a letter of the , granted it was eighty nine , but I mean this paragraph just said , you know , if we , does say that , you know , if we established a , a demand , and I do n't see why we should n't have a bash at . |
| 10 | I noticed it was dark outside when they opened the back . |
| 11 | Fully assembled they are all illegal . |
| 12 | A roadside breath test showed he was 2 1/2 times over the legal alcohol limit . |
| 13 | Well this feller that rung me was sixty three . |
| 14 | And the reason why the made marriages were happy ones is because the people who arranged them were mature level-headed people . ’ |
| 15 | When I joined the Partisans , among other things that surprised me was this endless attention to the arms : their constant cleaning , oiling , polishing . |
| 16 | His slides were good and his descriptions fairly accurate , but I sensed we were all glad to get back to the comfort of the hotel and I to my electric fire . |
| 17 | He told me he dumped you is that true ? |
| 18 | I loved We were such good friends ( September SHE ) — in fact , I could have written most of it myself . |
| 19 | On the other hand , he might not have recognised her , might have thought some girl was in need of help , then decided they were two harmless lovers and driven away . |
| 20 | She decided he was one fat pig in Wimbledon who was not , could not , should not be brought under the knife of the evil abattoir man who lives , in case you need to know , in Clifton Road just off the common , and the story of how she fought off his terrible friend Farmer Dune , and rallied all the pigs of Wimbledon is the greatest story ever told . |
| 21 | I suddenly decided it was all petty , stupid , useless . |
| 22 | His chest reads , ‘ My Mom and Dad went to Canada and all they brought me was this lousy T-shirt ’ . |
| 23 | The rounds you sent me are all standard N.A.T.O . |
| 24 | He said well if you go and make the he said any time between now and Christmas , you 'll have to come and have a meal on the house , I thought I 'm bloody sure I will ! |
| 25 | So on one of these , I should n't be looking at that one , that 's what threw me cos first of all I did n't know you had n't got any income and then I turned that over and that was the previous policy where you were a veterinary surgeon with eighteen thousand , I thought I 'm sure that 's not right |
| 26 | As Heather was not a boy this latter did not really concern us , although I thought I was sure Blessed St John wept with the little one over the circumcision he had , of course , had himself . |
| 27 | Dear me , she thought I was some old biddy needing bingo . ’ |
| 28 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 29 | I ca n't realy add much to what has already been said except that I saw the goals on Manc of the day and thought theirs were all sloppy and avoidable . |
| 30 | I never knew you was that daft , though . ’ |