Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet that would not have been enough if President Bush had not thrown away the election and the keys to the White House with it . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're here because Lord Sagramoso is a damned heretic against the Emperor , stirring up other heretics . ’ |
| 3 | It would not be long before de Lattre faced the divisions of Giap 's new model army in the set-piece battles which the Vietminh were prepared to risk in a premature general offensive ; and it was in more conventional war of this kind where US assistance and particularly US munitions would apparently tip the scale . |
| 4 | I could see , moreover , that if I were quickly to go outside and conceal my person behind the large rhododendron bush beside the path , it would not be long before Mr Cardinal came by . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 6 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 7 | Those who attend will be there because Chris Eubank is a man they love to hate . |
| 8 | The bed has been there since Father Collins 's time , in the war . |
| 9 | Otherwise their wonderful staff seemed the same as ever , headed by Mrs Julie Hughes who runs the place so well ; Miss Barbara Hopkins , who has been there since Forest Mere opened , and is invaluable in seeing you have every comfort in your bedroom . |
| 10 | Over in the corner behind a gigantic desk sat this old bird who looked as though she had been there since Marie Stopes was pre-pubescent . |
| 11 | Perhaps the car had not actually been there since Angela Morgan disappeared , but that seemed unlikely . |
| 12 | She must have been there as Christopher Peasgood became increasingly blue . |
| 13 | The First Lady had n't been there or Mrs Goreng would have been reintroduced to her . |
| 14 | ‘ I have neighbours , ’ Claudia said , remembering with dismay that the young couple on the top floor were away and Mrs Gregson was staying with her sister overnight . |
| 15 | The Stewarts were always and Charlie Stewarts the last of the f Stewarts but they were all great fiddlers there was the Stewarts and er my brother was a fiddler my father , and then Duncans and their pipes . |
| 16 | All H&C 's four major divisions — chemicals , timber , food and plantations - were there when Mr Paul took control . |
| 17 | Charles Waterton and Richard Jeffreys were there and Gilbert White 's " Natural History of Selborne . " |
| 18 | Moore and Burgess were there and G. H. Chirgwin the White-eyed Kaffir , Ballyhooley Lonnen , Hayden Coffin singing Love of my life … . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) corrects me : it is rather that Brian Walden will visit the Secretary of State for lunch and take the cameras with him . |
| 20 | It 's right that Joe Hawkins and Allen 's other legendary aggro merchants should now be given a new lease of life , and Allen is absolutely sure of his books ' continued relevance : ‘ The doubts and problems which confronted yesteryear 's skinheads have multiplied at an alarming rate in today 's world . |
| 21 | Similarly , it is inconceivably that Mrs Thatcher would have succeeded in the American context . |
| 22 | A leading right winger in the party said yesterday : ‘ It 's only because Michael Heseltine and Kenneth Clarke are such Euro-fanatics that there is no serious talk about a challenge . |
| 23 | The problem he says is only that Mr Tijani turned out to be so ill , otherwise he came as a legitimate private patient . |
| 24 | It is only because Bryan Gould is standing for leader that the soft left of the Labour Party has found a voice . |
| 25 | It is not that Pan Am minded a rival going under ; indeed , Pan Am may now be able to raise ticket prices on east-coast routes where Eastern had offered big discounts . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not that Mr. Keats ( if that be his real name , for we almost doubt that any man in his senses would put his real name to such a rhapsody ) ’ — wrote their Gifford of Keats ' Endymion . |
| 27 | This it is , but the miracle is not that Patricia Routledge can make the old weep with ‘ Roses of Picardy ’ , but that she can still move the young with it . |
| 28 | This is not because Miss Jackson 's presence in the Commons will ensure that Labour never forms the Government , but because Mr Letwin is one of the people credited with having invented the poll tax . |
| 29 | The balance of the side is just as Bobby Robson would have wished it ; bearing in mind the need for midfield solidity , Rocastle would probably have played anyway . |
| 30 | It 's just that New York fashion people look down their noses at you unless you 're a graduate of a fancy school of design . ’ |