Example sentences of "of [noun] [pers pn] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ So take the box back with you , ’ she said gently , ‘ and say I would not dream of accepting anything , because of course they are family things . |
2 | ‘ Of course they 're ozone friendly , never use anything else , ’ she assured me , ‘ and we 've got wood-burning stoves . ’ |
3 | Of course they 're rock and pop now , I suppose , … and I 'm talking about from 1st years onwards . |
4 | Of course they were package tours though he seems to have spent a surprising amount on this one . |
5 | Er President of Kazakhstan of course he 's president of a country where again Northern Kazakhstan has a huge Russian , compact Russian population that might want to break away . |
6 | ‘ Of course you are darling , ’ she said , but she was unnerved . |
7 | And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason . |
8 | Of course it is piffle , but not without a streak of crazy intelligence . |
9 | At the moment they 're just a voluntary body , but it looks as though works councils will become mandatory for eleven of the twelve states in the E C , with the implementation very soon of the European Social Works Council Directive , Britain as usual being the odd one out , because of course it 's part of the Social Chapter . |
10 | Yeah well of course it 's bureaucracy going barmy is n't it ? |
11 | Oh does n't matter , oh of course it 's water |
12 | of course it 's pride , it 's been pride since the start . |
13 | Of course it 's bunk . |
14 | It does n't interest me deeply — unless of course it 's caviar , oysters and asparagus ! |
15 | ‘ Of course it 's business as usual . ’ |
16 | And of course it 's heat of the sun which strikes the other side but which misses our side . |
17 | The they 're never sort of given feeble excuses , we are erm very truthful with them , i in order to make them understand that , you know , there are limitations erm within our jobs as well , cos a lot of people expect things , and erm you may promise them , well other people may promise them , and it 's not delivered then of course it 's sort of them and us , and we , we try to dispel that idea , it 's not them |
18 | and general meetings and speeches on campus , but remembered of course it 's conference season . |
19 | Well , of course , when daylight came and I of course it was midnight see when that happened and early in the morning and er , oh there was a , crowds of people coming . |
20 | Now , I I could have said that but of course it was Councillor . |
21 | Anyway I got to virtually the lat rung and of course I was smack up against the wall . |
22 | You see , my day rate , then , of course I was piece work , but my day rate then would be er er two pound twelve and six pence . |
23 | Thus Artegall 's ‘ course of Iustice he was forst to stay , /And Talus to reuoke from the right way ’ ( V , XII , 27 ) . |
24 | A lot of times it 's economics that determines what people do in all their endeavours , and in the case of Hawaii tourism was the thing and so of course they had to play music for tourists . |
25 | When they cross a region of space–time it is space–time itself that vibrates . |
26 | After the sealing of the Treaty of Nonancourt it was time for Henry II to carry out the promise made at Winchester last September and deal with William and Vulgrin of Angoulême , Aimar of Limoges and the other defeated rebels . |
27 | But courts themselves were places of education ; ‘ With the king of England it is school every day ’ , as Peter of Blois remarked . |
28 | We learned that the fuel promised by both Aerad and Bottlang was there , but instead of avgas it was Jet A1 . |
29 | But I think after three glasses of wine it 's time I went home . ’ |
30 | Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there . |