Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 2 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 3 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 4 | In the case of both /Ε/; and /a/ it is the persons for whom the vowel has less significance as a network marker who seem to be leading the linguistic change . |
| 5 | Manipulation of ‘ needs ’ by both creating them and satisfying them is the process by which social control is effected . |
| 6 | Erm , we also , again I mean , as you say , we always look at ourselves and say we 're the best team in the company . |
| 7 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 8 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 9 | Today the Bangor editor said : ‘ We are determined to emulate our team and show we are the top dogs in north Down . |
| 10 | The choice of McLeish as captain will , Roxburgh believes , remove an unwanted , additional pressure from McStay 's shoulders and let him be the midfield schemer who orchestrates the emphatic victory essential to Scotland 's progress . |
| 11 | Anne Cullen has spent nearly half of her twenty two years of married life pregnant … and says she 's the happiest mum in the world . |
| 12 | I just turned round and says mine was the cheapest price anyway ! |
| 13 | No two days are the same for the Buildings Branch and says it 's the variety which makes his job so enjoyable . |
| 14 | Then he makes up this funny word and says it 's the name of a disease by which his brain is rotting away . |
| 15 | Her sister thinks of this pain all day and night and says it is the worst part and I think it is , worse even than how it is to end . |
| 16 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 17 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 18 | When all 's said and done it 's the character that counts . ’ |
| 19 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 20 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 21 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 22 | He reaches into his bag , brings out a sandwich , then stands up and inspects it is the projector beam to see what it contains . |
| 23 | Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so . |
| 24 | COCA-COLA took over sponsorship of the League Cup in a £2.25 million deal yesterday and confirmed they are the ‘ real thing ’ for football . |
| 25 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 26 | Go back to your priestly intolerance , back to your blasphemous masses , back to your beads , holy water , holy smoke and stinks and remember we are the sons of the martyrs whom your church butchered and we know your church to be the mother of harlots and the abominations of the earth . |
| 27 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 28 | It is this that bears on my father 's second question-how to contain the uncontainable : producing these extremes and then controlling and containing them are the problems . |
| 29 | A girl who pummels a destructive little brother who ruins her toys and finds she is the one who gets into trouble feels hurt and angry . |
| 30 | I do not think it would be reasonable to pretend that the cost of paying people , recruiting them and retaining them is the same in the south-east as in other parts of the United Kingdom . |