Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [subord] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you make notes when you 're listening to customers and make notes when you were questioning me did I and it was hard to even if it 's only four or five questions it was hard to pull together . |
| 2 | Well you make notes when you 're listening to customers and make notes when you were questioning me did I and it was hard to even if it 's only four or five questions it was hard to pull together . |
| 3 | When in arrears he learns ‘ to sniff out the places where you can catch violators when you 're running behind ’ ( Skolnick , 1966:55 ) |
| 4 | Under the Government 's Citizen 's Charter initiative , we have published a charter leaflet detailing what customers can expect from us , and the 1993 Corporate Pan emphasises areas where we are improving our services . |
| 5 | ‘ Because when your brother caught mumps before you were born he gave it to me . |
| 6 | Techniques can fail to meet expectations because they are applied without due regard for the culture of the organisation , for example the currently popular ‘ empowerment of the individual ’ will not work well in a highly systematic , centrally controlled management culture . |
| 7 | It is even more rare to observe individuals while they are producing mixed messages during a meeting reflecting on their actions and the features of the organisational culture that makes the undiscussable undiscussable . |
| 8 | If there are steps , he may need handrails if he is walking , or a ramp if he moves about in a wheelchair . |
| 9 | If they made a good impression during that brief stay at the University , they would be given priority of consideration for becoming undergraduates when they were demobilised . |
| 10 | His first priority will be to find players as it is understood that several of last season 's side want to leave . |
| 11 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 12 | What the ad does n't mention , either , is that cells which contains traces of blood are naturally excreted in the faeces and in some babies the amount of cells that are shed increases if they are fed cow 's milk — but still not enough to worry about . |
| 13 | On the other hand , people will make errors if they are forced to make a decision too early . |
| 14 | them it , it seemed ages before they were going to be on their |
| 15 | Instead , it will watch programmes as they are broadcast , along with the rest of us , and then pronounce on their suitability ( or lack of it ) . |
| 16 | When the selected material is brought to the sacrificial enclosure in a ceremonial procession , a consecrated ‘ pot ’ or ‘ puma-kumbha ’ is installed and the stone or wood is subjected to set rituals before it is given to the sculptor . |
| 17 | We can still identify objects when they are blurred , which removes the higher spatial frequencies , and most of the time moving objects are moving neither very fast nor very slowly . |
| 18 | Secondly , recent changes in the structure of the civil service with the development of the agency model through the Next Steps programme will not improve matters unless it is linked to changing roles and relationships . |
| 19 | Mr Justice Saville said the Commercial Court was a part of the Queen 's Bench and he would not exclude observers unless he was given a good reason to do so . |
| 20 | In explaining that my hon. Friend the Minister of State is not present to answer questions because he is doing duty in the Province , I give the right hon. Gentleman an absolute assurance of the commitment of the intelligence services and of their relevance in Northern Ireland today . |
| 21 | None of them is harmless , and all can present problems when they are abused . |
| 22 | English footballers are not usually renowned for such artistic pursuits but Isabelle is quick to refute any suggestion of intellectual snobbery : ‘ I do n't like the word intelligent , we do n't do things because we 're trying to appear intelligent , ’ she says . |
| 23 | ‘ I gave him a good whacking , ’ Wally told police as he was taken away on a stretcher . |
| 24 | Some non-muslim parents say they 'll boycott swimming lessons while they 're segregated . |
| 25 | We used the police telephone boxes when we were locking somebody up and you had to handcuff them to a railing while you rang up for the van . |
| 26 | While Fiona was still on her way the medics stuffed Harry full of antibiotics and other palliatives and put stitches where they were needed , and by the time she 'd wept briefly in my arms he was warm and responding nicely in a recovery room somewhere . |
| 27 | Kadan was probably too young to be interested in experiment with one of his mother 's serving women if he was offered the opportunity . |
| 28 | His breath forms smoke clouds as they are released from his tight pouting lips . |
| 29 | ‘ Parkinson and Mohan were not made scapegoats when they were dropped at Swindon following our FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 30 | Taking on a role yourself and making that role the focus of the dramatic play enables you to support contributions as they 're made . |