Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think she felt wi , you know , some of them are sort of like , a bit unimportant . |
| 2 | Some of it was instinct with Davidson , of course , but most of it was solid experience , starting , as Davidson had once told him , with his being seduced by the school-dinner lady at the age of thirteen in his native Ayrshire . |
| 3 | And though she recognized that some of it was rebellion at the hours of inactivity , she could not ignore her bladder . |
| 4 | This in itself is part of the process of legitimization of the standard language , in which the accepted norms are determined , not primarily by consensus amongst speakers , but by legislation . |
| 5 | The first thing and these are statistical problems that we wo n't spend too much time on them but just make sure they are our error term in this equation , right , is no longer a random error term it 's dependent on it 's value in the previous period right , cos B T actually represents U T minus sumfunction of E T minus one right . |
| 6 | Indeed , a large part of a horse 's psychological wellbeing is dependent on it being part of a herd , or at least having the companionship of one or two others . |
| 7 | Fig. 10 includes large proportions of rabbits and birds , neither of which were part of the comparative fauna obtained by trapping , so that the two samples appear very dissimilar . |
| 8 | Much of it was part of large estates owned by members of the landed aristocracy , who became aware of the potential wealth beneath their holdings . |
| 9 | You , you want to go straight across but it is n't straight across it 's sort of like that |
| 10 | Jane Wright who runs the centre says a common factor to all of them is trouble in forming relationships . |
| 11 | If not , then it is no business of the police to maintain files , to intercept telephone calls and to examine mail , all of which are part of the government 's business when laws are broken or threatened , and only then , under the very restrictive provisions of the law . |
| 12 | They 'll play five limited over matches in and around Pretoria all of which is music to the ears of the South Africans . |
| 13 | The 1950s resembled the 1920s experience with a roughly equal balance of public and private construction , almost all of which was suburbanization by addition and which produced 3732 dwellings . |
| 14 | I ask the Minister to do one more thing for those millions of families , many of whom are part of that 250,000 who are more than six months in arrears with their mortgage repayments , who fear that their homes will be taken from them and who have paid the poll tax . |
| 15 | Families in poverty , families who have a disabled child , lone parents or step-families , families whose children have been taken into care , all are particularly vulnerable to them is match between needs and services . |
| 16 | National minimum wage , of which has said , the employment consequences would be little short of disastrous and the society backs estimates that up to eight hundred thousand jobs could be destroyed by the minimum wage and of the A E U described the minimum wage as nonsense and said he was flatly opposed to it 's introduction in the private sector . |
| 17 | Bangor 's brilliant Bass Cup quarter-final win over Linfield sent a buzz through a town notorious for it 's apathy towards the local soccer club . |
| 18 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 19 | He also wrote a two-volume work on The Architecture of Robert and James Adam ( 1922 ) , which led to work at Adam 's Royal Society of Arts and in 1925 to his being consultant to the eighth Earl of Jersey at Osterley Park . |
| 20 | One could go on and pick many other scriptures , you know in the erm the New Testament not only were there those three questions that we mentioned earlier on about salvation , but there are three unanswered questions in the New Testament in Mark chapter eight , Jesus asked that question of which there is no answer , for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and looses his sole or what shall a man or a woman give in exchange for their soul , Jesus did n't try and answer , there is no answer to that question , then again in , in Hebrews chapter three , er chapter two and verse three there is an unanswered question , how shall we escape if we neglect so greater salvation , and finally one other the apostle Peter , he asked the question in , in chapter fo , first apostle in chapter four and verse seven seventeen for it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God and if judgment begins with us first , what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God |
| 21 | Welcome back:A new clinic … the first of it 's kind in Britain … is cutting hospital waiting lists so fast that it 's been described as a runaway success . |
| 22 | One aspect of the contra proferentem rule is that , if there is more than one possible head of liability one of which is liability for negligence , then an exemption clause will not be interpreted as excluding liability for negligence unless it does so in clear terms . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a security measure and it will continue for some time , ’ said a police spokesman , who revealed that the roads , one of which is part of the main Clogher to Omagh Road , had been closed under a Secretary of State 's Order . |
| 24 | We had a good ride — quite a hard one , I had difficulty keeping up , though towards the end they were getting noticably slower ! — and we were then invited to one of them 's house for breakfast . |
| 25 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 26 | The Buffs is well-known for it 's work for charity and on Easter Monday all proceeds from a lunchtime ‘ bandbox ’ and evening show featuring Lee and Marie and Feelings will boost an appeal for the North Riding Infirmary . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , there remains the issue of the ‘ popular front ’ and the ‘ united front ’ against fascism — both of which were anathema to a Labour Party hostile to the Communist Party . |
| 28 | So I should think both of them were apostrophe before the so you got |
| 29 | Surprisingly , each of the opposing groups had their own skinhead supporters , most of whom were part of a skinhead revival . |
| 30 | And in the Football Post er cos everybody used to have the Football Post then , not like now , and so everybody knew what was in it and er there was like a Who and Why column in the Football Post and one of these was , Who will stop County now , you see because they was at top of the second division or something like that , and the team that was next to them was City in them days you see . |