Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [adj] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Her particular interest in industrial development issues has been most useful but I fully appreciate the pressure of her business commitments — and in turn the value to the Highlands ’ of her companies ' continuing successes . ’ |
| 2 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 3 | without protest from a parent , without a protest from a hunter without a protest from er a anyone else , that is a shame , because I tell you what , if you go drag hunting , you can keep the jobs the people are still going to have to shoe the horses traders and people like that are still going to have to produce the carriages to take the horses with them and the only people job jobs are in jeopardy are not the kennel staff it 's the terrier men and to be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , it 's the terrier men who have actually ruined your sport , cos of what they get up to in nineteen ninety three is a disgust and at the end of the day your P R has been absolutely wrong and I hope this afternoon that Conservatives and Liberals can join with us and I 've got to thank a certain Liberal because he 's he 's put his head on the block on several occasions on this when we stood on the platform as individuals , not as politicians , as individuals on this and I think that this afternoon we 've got a way forward , we can say to the hunt , come and talk you change , we 'll give you access . |
| 4 | ‘ It is now about five years since this all started and it has been quite stressful but I feel pretty strongly about what happened to me and my child and I am determined to see it through . |
| 5 | I think we 've erm we 've erm obviously learned that opting out is not for the Oxfordshire people — I 'm delighted about that and I just hope that as a result of this we do not see too many problems for Banbury School , both in the fact that the exercise has been somewhat divisory and I hope that they 're able to bring it together quickly afterwards . |
| 6 | ‘ This office has been so discredited that I think it has to be disbanded , ’ the party 's new reformist leader , Dr Gregor Gysi , said at the weekend . |
| 7 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 8 | However , it has been so dramatic that I think it would be difficult for us to say that it was due to anything but the dietary changes , especially in view of the double-blind trial . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I like them all , but liking is as far as I 'll get — have you seen the prices ? ’ |
| 10 | That you know is very interesting that I arranged all the materials through that you know it 's scandalous that 's it 's carton fits . |
| 11 | That argument would I think be very persuasive if I were able to be confident that the levels of conversion is one which would be an adequate and proper one , it is relatively new , there is nothing wrong with that , it is not apparently been a conversion which has been put into practice , except in the last year because have only started conversion when the Nissan Serena was brought out . |
| 12 | Asked how Morse might have reacted to it , he said : ‘ I think he would have been rather chuffed like I am . |
| 13 | Asked how Morse might have reacted to it , he said : ‘ I think he would have been rather chuffed like I am . |
| 14 | ‘ The potential cost to Woolwich of refusing to pay in terms of damage to reputation and interest liabilities may have been commercially unacceptable but I can not regard it as involving duress on the part of the revenue . |
| 15 | No , I would have done it exactly the same , I would have just hoped that I would have been as lucky as I have been . |
| 16 | We played dominoes with an old boy and his wife ; she was eighty , and if you 'd seen her puffing cigarettes and drinking strong ale , you 'd have been as dumbfounded as I was . |
| 17 | With a wry smile , Ellie admitted , ‘ It would n't have been so hard if I 'd known what he was talking about . ’ |
| 18 | Er Ministers are often in a very grave difficulty these days , if they do n't listen er er they 're accused o o of being autocratic , i i if they do listen , er then they 're accused of making u-turns , well even the gathering swine did n't have to make a u-turn , a change of direction would have been quite sufficient and I welcome the change of direction which the Home Secretary ha has made erm the objectives of this Bill are I think to be commended , but it is be perfectly clear from the outset that you ca n't combat crime by antagonising everyone concerned with the enforcement of law and order , the police authorities , the police and the magistrates . |
| 19 | I could have run away , but I had no money and , even if I had been able to borrow it , I should still have been too frightened because I had nowhere to run to . |
| 20 | And , ’ obscurely , ‘ my behaviour ’ , as you call it , might have been very different if I 'd known Hugh was a thing of the past . ’ |
| 21 | She could not have been very old when I first knew her , but I thought of her as old , partly because her hair was pure white . |
| 22 | He must have been very shortsighted for I remember the way in which he always peered through his very thick spectacles . |
| 23 | The instructors were all trained in the UK and could not have been more helpful when I asked at very short notice whether I could fly their Archer for £34 . |
| 24 | It might have been more depressing if I had been otherwise ready to leave . |
| 25 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 26 | Now I understand er that you know we are providing public service here and we have got allow for public access but the cost of the council of having all its officers outside of this building for over er two hours must have been absolutely horrendous and I would have thought this would be an area where improving security ought to be a high priority so what are you going to do about it ? |
| 27 | You 've ruined me , Piers Morrison , she thought angrily , staring at her reflection in the mirror as the prospect of a dreary Saturday evening faced her ; I might not have been terribly nice before I met you , but at least I was n't filled with this pain and dissatisfaction . |
| 28 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 29 | It was a hot day , and I think I must have been half asleep when I noticed something very strange . |
| 30 | The numbers attending are still disappointing but I believe that it is fully justified if for no other reason than that it provides us with the best — and most cost effective — corporate publicity we are likely to obtain . |