Example sentences of "be [pron] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fear not therefore : better are ye than many sparrows , ’ Brother Cuthbert quoted pointlessly. ( 245 ) |
| 2 | ‘ Are you that bloody idiot who does golf for the News ? ’ was his opening salvo ; and things got worse when Toby , never able to turn the verbal cheek , even to a large and extremely aggressive drunk , proceeded to tell him his opinion of Scottish golfers in general and of unwelcome Scottish drunks in particular . |
| 3 | And the Chief said that does n't compare he said that does not concur with a visit I had last night in Glasgow whilst asleep when he awoke to a gleaming light at his bedroom and he said who are you and this figure said I am God and the Chief Fire Officer said well God , all I want to know is one thing , will I get my southern fire station ? |
| 4 | What are we but simple Englishmen ? |
| 5 | Perfect peppers can be yours as this month 's cut-out-and-keep growing guide focuses on ‘ Gypsy ’ , ‘ Bellboy ’ and their capsicum colleagues . |
| 6 | Ramsey cried to the Church to be itself ; to know that its being rests upon a death and an empty tomb ; and to be itself whether modern Britain will listen or close its ears . |
| 7 | The brainchild of Reuben Mattus , whose family had been making ice-cream in the Bronx since the 1920s Haagen-Dazs was planned to be everything that standard ice-creams were not . |
| 8 | His answer will be something that another person , not the defendant , said . |
| 9 | A political life that is constantly framed in sporting terms , and which celebrates successes with high-fives and backslapping , is unlikely to be one that many women find congenial . |
| 10 | Furthermore , you must be the user currently associated with the Charge Code or one of his ascendants , and the new user must be yourself or any user who is an ascendant or descendant of the current user . |
| 11 | I do n't think they 're in any rush to develop now , are they cos this housing business is so poor . |
| 12 | Such things are naught but feeble threats to ig — gnor'nt peasants . |
| 13 | The court held that he was not guilty because the customers did not care whether the sandwiches were his or British Rail 's . |
| 14 | ‘ It is clear that when the section 8(6) procedure comes into operation it is for the police officer to make the decision whether the sample to be provided shall be a sample of blood or urine , but the police officer must convey to the defendant that the sample to be required may be of either blood or urine and must give the defendant an opportunity to consider which sample he would prefer to give if the choice were his and any reasons he has for that preference . |
| 15 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's nothing that one dose will do for you that two wo n't do better ! ’ |
| 17 | Oh yes you know sometimes an artist says the picture is his and two years later he denies and says it 's a false one |
| 18 | etc. , into representations in this inner language : the human language capacity is itself as complex input system , a grammar being a system for ‘ understanding ’ given language signals in terms of this inner language ( FODOR 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Their second LP , ‘ Leggy Mambo ’ ( on Imaginary ) , is everything that dedicated Cadets could have wished for — and then some more . |
| 20 | Their second LP , ‘ Leggy Mambo ’ ( on Imaginary ) , is everything that dedicated Cadets could have wished for — and then some more . |
| 21 | What to do if disorientation does occur : Since temporary mild disorientation is something that all pilots must learn to live with , the majority are probably not consciously aware of having to do anything . |
| 22 | What the HMI appear to be taking issue with here in a particularly strongly value-laden way is something that other writers have variously called ‘ formal ’ , ‘ traditional ’ , ‘ product ’ , ‘ production ’ , ‘ transmission ’ , ‘ class-enquiry ’ , ‘ recitation ’ and ‘ discipline-based ’ teaching . |
| 23 | I really want us all to move on as musicians , which is something that other bands do n't seem to be doing . |
| 24 | This is something that many parents also find difficult to accept in their daughters . |
| 25 | It is something that many people would not like to see , but there is no question that a high proportion of animals which are shot will carry lead shot for a while , will die after a long period — in many cases days or weeks — and there is a substantial amount of suffering when this happens . |
| 26 | Do n't feel insecure about it — your intuitive rapport with the wild world is something that many people would give their eye- teeth just to touch . |
| 27 | Of course , this is something that private schools already do , but it is interesting that , even in the public sector , some ‘ magnet ’ schools , upset by their relatively poor performance in examination results , are asking if they ca n't exclude children who come to them on placing requests from deprived areas . |
| 28 | Not being heard or listened to is something that elderly people can find frightening . |
| 29 | There is something that those people contribute to the group as a whole . |
| 30 | erm , yes and some of the design houses will mark up what then handle some of them wo n't in terms of after the design stage and that I think is something that some people do n't always realise |