Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine how it feels ( if you are the incumbent MP ) to know that , that very morning , thousands of people are devoting their whole attention to getting rid of you . |
| 2 | I think it is a pity that so many anglers are devoting their whole fishing careers to the one species . |
| 3 | Her thin lip curled in a rare smile — one might say she had been pursuing her own studies . |
| 4 | Pictured with him is the group 's chairman , Tony Edwards one of 22 mainly unemployed people who are building their own homes during the project . |
| 5 | These dimensions have been tested ergonomically , and are designed to fit in with standard appliances , so they provide a useful guide if you are building your own units instead of buying ready-made . |
| 6 | ‘ We are building our own garden , thanks to a grant from the Merseyside Environmental Trust . |
| 7 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 8 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 9 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 10 | There is probably an equal number of people , for example , who think that the less able have a poor deal , and that the system should be geared more towards improving their lot , and on the other hand of those who think that it is the most able who suffer , and that we are wasting our educational resources unless we tilt the system towards them . |
| 11 | You 've been seeing your social worker regularly , have you , Vernon ? |
| 12 | NCT has been invited to join as an associate member and , our President , is our rep. on this advisory body to the government whose terms of references are ‘ to ensure by all possible means that the informed opinions of women are given their due weight in the deliberations of government . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ No. 3 is the new paint shop , a magnificent department where all new vehicles are given their distinctive livery . |
| 14 | It is a basic principle of interpretation that ordinary words are given their ordinary meaning . |
| 15 | But in rock these aspects are given their particular shape by , and centred on , a collectively understood manipulation of amplified sound . |
| 16 | Under the fundholding arrangements , doctors are given their own budgets to spend . |
| 17 | Facilities for pedestrians and those for cyclists are given their own chapters , and there is a chapter devoted to new residential development . |
| 18 | Carel Weight , a surprising choice , Ivon Hitchens , in the centenary of his birth , Adrian Stokes and Barbara Hepworth are given their own rooms . |
| 19 | Reich ( 1983 ) argues that rapid changes in the technology of products and production demand the development of ‘ flexible production systems ’ if American companies are to sustain their competitive advantage . |
| 20 | We are allowing our four men to remain at the Palace . |
| 21 | You will certainly need to experiment with exposure periods if you are coating your own boards with a UV sensitive aerosol lacquer . |
| 22 | Yeah , he would , I suppose he 's been eating his own toes all day |
| 23 | He said I bet it 's that that 's been , oh and then it jumped down and ran corner at g where ch caravan is , he said I bet that 's what 's been eating your bloody daffodil bulbs and that . |
| 24 | Retailers at the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock in Essex are seeing their best business for many months . |
| 25 | There can be little doubt that we are seeing their real diversions , that these are their own instruments and the clothes they would really have worn . |
| 26 | But now they are defying their own interests too . |
| 27 | Ever seeking perfection , Oxford this year are using their new training centre . |
| 28 | The shareholders are thereby given the power to judge for themselves whether the directors are using their managerial powers for their own benefit at the expense of the company and if this is so to veto the transaction or at least hold the director liable for any profits thereby made . |
| 29 | We can infer from this that when the authors concerned start out to describe the institutions of an alien exotic social system they are using their own society as a model of normality . |
| 30 | I mean my , one of my friend 's sons , he was a computer man , he was working on his own but he 's in his I should think he 's getting on for about forty six and he was doing freelance but this recession the people who er the firms who were employing him are using their own staff and they 're not calling on him now and er he 's not done any computing for twelve months . |