Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |
| 2 | the amount of money I 'm getting is inadequate , I 'm not getting it made up in Income Support , please help . |
| 3 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 4 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 5 | A bishop who can not make up his mind which side he is supporting is inconvenient . |
| 6 | Yeah , but the trips he 's using are big . |
| 7 | So the question I am wondering is this : does the person Albie owed money to — the man behind Vinnie Dirkin — know who it was that killed him ? |
| 8 | It is possible that the question you are asking is different from the sorts of discussion you have encountered in what you have read on the subject . |
| 9 | But we do agree , I , it 's silly not to support money in the , the work they 're doing is good , certainly the er , the Bridgenorth , in the tourist areas did n't look really well into making enquir to promote those . |
| 10 | ‘ Others have understandably wanted to recoup their investment and the rents they are asking are more than a student can afford on a £750 a term grant . ’ |
| 11 | Wood arrived at the conclusion that the compass error they were experiencing was opposite to the error they had found coming south over the Timor Sea , and decided he had to trust Darwin 's bearings implicitly . |
| 12 | For many parents it is as though the child they were expecting is dead . |
| 13 | Karl was judged to be a normal , pleasant boy when he started as a clerical assistant in February 1943 , but he was soon complaining that the work he was given was boring and that his pay — 1/6d an hour — was not enough . |
| 14 | But what kind of post-monetarism he was espousing was uncertain , too . |
| 15 | The point I am making is that pedagogic research calls for the independent appraisal of ideas as a precondition to their application . |
| 16 | but the point I 'm making is that up to the end of giving you advice it is perfectly free there is no charge on you whatsoever . |
| 17 | Look s s seriously the point the point I 'm making is that for for most jobs of an average sort of size , what happens under A C E scale fees as I understand it , if I 'm wrong I 'm I stand corrected . |
| 18 | The point I 'm making is that in fact erm a woman 's reproductive system discriminates actively . |
| 19 | Erm but the the point I 'm making is that existing figures erm for the existing sorry the figures for the existing structure plan indicate that there 's been an overshoot on agreed figures . |
| 20 | The serious point I 'm making is that , too often , in schools , the kind of questions are focused on just what is least interesting , not the , people 's attitude to witches , or to their bodies , or their attitudes to women , to children , all these things which are now considered part of the historian 's province , but instead we get saddled with the Treaty of Uncia Scolesi and the Repeal of the Corn Laws , and this is worrying . |
| 21 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 22 | District councillors are under no illusion that the extra cash they are providing is enough to solve the problem entirely . |
| 23 | BBont are very interested in it , because there is natural fauna and flora there and the other thing that I think needs to be brought up is the site they are proposing is next door to a leisure park . |
| 24 | Mr Lord said : ‘ These young men were wrong to take the law into their own hands but the five years they were given was excessive . |
| 25 | He was , perhaps , a little too smartly dressed for a holidaymaker , but the Point he was making was clear enough . |
| 26 | It suspects that although the Viking is n't the so-called performance leader , the volumes it 's producing are higher than at Hewlett Packard . |
| 27 | Some of the project 's opponents argue that the £220 million of state subsidies it is receiving are illegal and that they will take the matter to court . |
| 28 | Rain said : ‘ You 're being very discreet , Tim , but the person you were avoiding was that pedlar , was n't it ? ’ |
| 29 | The concept they are promoting is that of ‘ electronic ink ’ — a magic ingredient that will enable scribbles written on one pen computer to be used by other systems , even those without pen-aware technology . |
| 30 | You may be getting a friend or neighbour , and handy some s social event they are planning be careful losing money or credit cards while out shopping , your interest can help you with your career , meeting this month may solve problems with high finance . |