Example sentences of "[verb] be an [noun] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , it is perhaps only in the last er , six months or so that the erm , turnaround in the fortunes of erm , er , B Sky B have been acknowledged and er , I think there has been an element in our thinking that we wanted to keep our dry er , until such time as er , B Sky B which we have great belief and faith in and our , as you know we increased our investment during the year erm , sees its way through to profitability and I 'm happy to say that that 's happening now at a reab reasonable rate and that that means that it is highly unlikely that the hundred and thirty million of guarantees that we still have outstanding to B Sky B are likely to be called . |
| 2 | Smokers are furious at what they say is an attack on their personal freedom . |
| 3 | ‘ As a result , we 've had an awful lot of letters from people saying there 'd been an oversight on their part , ’ says an outwardly cheerful Simpson . |
| 4 | What they ‘ d just seen was an excerpt from his full-length film Is There Sex After Death ? , a blue movie parody that he ‘ d made on a very tight budget — so tight in fact that the only way he could think of promoting it was to call a press conference — of a sort ! |
| 5 | What is needed is an acceptance of our responsibilities under international law . |
| 6 | That dress you are wearing is an offence to my eyes . ’ |
| 7 | The indications are that Aethelred needed to involve leading members of the Bernician aristocracy with his court , which may have been an element in his undoing . |
| 8 | They say a letter they 've received exonerating the doctors involved is an insult to their daughter 's memory . |
| 9 | In 1971 he was also angered by a visit made by the Shah 's sister Princess Ashraf , to China , which he felt was an intrusion on his turf . |
| 10 | Donationes mortis causa may be said to have been an anomaly in our law , both for their immunity to the Statute of Frauds 1677 and the Wills Act 1837 and as exceptions to the rule that equity will not perfect an imperfect gift . |
| 11 | That has been our major worry and I think for us now to go away and just allow it to go ahead , twenty years on , without any improvements , without the link road and without improvements to Hill I think is an abdication of our duties and I really do think that . |
| 12 | Disposing of the British agents had been an idea of his own , and killing Goldstein a positive pleasure . |
| 13 | Her name was Avavnuk ; she had been an Eskimo in her life . |
| 14 | No matter that she had n't understood the broken phrases gasped from Rune 's lips as he had devoured her with his kisses ; she knew instinctively that they had been an expression of his desire for her in that sweet moment of culmination . |
| 15 | Yet when she came to think about it further , she knew that if she were honest with herself , there had been an inevitability about her brief , wild , headlong fling with Freddie Nash . |