Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 However , what appears to be competition/soliciting which can not be restrained without an express clause frequently amounts to a breach of the duty of fidelity .
2 ‘ How will be play it ? ’
3 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
4 At the end of it , SHe had to say , ‘ The cities might be Paradise itself , but for how long ?
5 As far as I 'm concerned what we 're looking at could be Paradise itself . ’
6 It should be noted that while 12 persons must be present who are using or threatening violence , only the person charged need be shown to have intended to use the violence .
7 This is a very useful way of gaining a first impression of a program and other teachers or school librarians may be present who have used the software in class and have evaluated its use .
8 When you 're expecting jam and it turns out to be marmalade it 's quite a shock .
9 Well , if a hostage has to remain behind in enemy hands then it 's clearly better that it should be Summerchild himself .
10 you 'd have to be study you know time and that there , ooh I know it 's a grand thing is education lessons , but
11 Sometimes , Henry thought , it would be kindness itself to rise one night between three and four when the suburb slept and drag a sharp stone across the Mitsubishi 's flanks .
12 comment area when we , these go out there would be guidance which would say their staff must make their comment in that space
13 These hospitals were funded by Iran to treat battle casualties — Hezbollah , Amal militiamen and Syrian troops , depending on who happened to be fighting whom at the time — and they were ideal places for holding hostages .
14 If there is to be intelligence there must be memory , and if there is to be memory there must be a permanent , ordered structure to which each of the individual units is uniquely linked .
15 Dot tried to imagine that the two women in front were her footmen and she was one of the royal princesses , preferably Margaret because she would n't have to be queen which would be quite a responsibility if you thought about it , going for a drive in a carriage with her regal dogs and her regal flowers .
16 But he warned that unless the West , meaning primarily the European Community , offered economic aid quickly , ‘ there will be disillusionment which will be very destabilising .
17 No housing policy can be sound which does not deal courageously with rent restriction as a whole .
18 Well she got a kind of raincoat , that , I do n't think it 's supposed to be maternity I think it 's just supposed to be
19 If you enjoy walking , this could be heaven there are over 80 kms of marked paths to keep you occupied and walks are arranged weekly with an English speaking guide , both easy and strenuous .
20 What always amazes me when we play scrabble I mean , things that I consider to be slang you know , on the odd time I thought well I 'll try that
21 There 'd be cart there would be two cart loads anyway
22 Or , it could be behaviour which is seen as eccentric or bizarre , such as not wearing shoes and socks in conventional situations or carrying on prolonged conversations with the plants in one 's garden .
23 ‘ I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances ’ ( Phil .
24 It might be rest they might think
25 One man 's conflict may be water which flows unceremoniously off another 's back ; no sweat , no hassle .
26 so we 've got , if we do give them work to do it 's got to be stuff which they do n't feel inadequate to do .
27 There is clearly — indeed there would have to be — more to Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life than the sources record , and while in a general way it is unquestionably right to urge caution in adopting Husameddin 's material , in this particular case there appears to be evidence which at the least requires an alternative explanation before being dismissed .
28 IT IS not irrational for a jury to decide that the first of two co-accused acted in concert with the second but that the second co-accused did not act in concert with the first , because the case against each accused must be considered separately and there may be evidence which is admissible against one but not the other .
29 In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic .
30 Although he 's only the second son and will never be king himself , he 's still an important man and very popular , I hear , with many Ruritanians .
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