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

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1 And I 'd be aggressive and loud , but not aggressive towards him , but be loud and strolling up and down , making out I was a damn sight worse off than I was and all that .
2 I can very easily help them into a situation where they can be very much more successful than they are but that would mean compromises .
3 You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way .
4 There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward .
5 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 .
6 But so it was that this Hungarian son of a would-be inventor moved towards his abiding preoccupation with scientific ideas .
7 Well I strange erm accusation yes we will be , we would keep the council tax down if I am that that would be a popular message to give out and so having accepted our below er the guideline figures they did take this into consideration but we have a budget that has elements of growth in industry .
8 If they are and this kind of tragedy occurs then they must be punished for such behaviour . ’
9 What they could have in common it would be difficult to guess , unless it was that both were defiantly unacademic and felt the need to make a common front against the teachers — not that learning sat particularly heavy on any of them , either .
10 Oh no I the twenty six strike er is just a You know a very very big and er you know er railway man , leader of the strike , buying all the shares because he was But that 's one of the things , because it was a headline in the
11 I wondered whether it was because neither of them had stirred herself to go through the contortions attendant upon attracting men , but it was n't that .
12 Alright and er you 're quite happy with things as they are and that ?
13 Like , for instance , can they bargain with you to alter any of the exclusion clauses , or do they have to take it as it is and that 's that ?
14 We have very little as it is and this plan will just wipe it out .
15 Things were pretty tense as it was and all her own tension had come flooding back , especially when she thought of her reaction to Felipe .
16 you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ?
17 Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him .
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