Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [be] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Yet what I was really doing was hardening myself against disappointment — my mother was going to be abroad when the baby was born . |
| 32 | On Monday many years ago my mother was preparing to be brought to bed of me … on the Thursday following . |
| 33 | And from then on , er there was never a hitch at all , my mother was considered to be one of the best butter maker i in the vicinity . |
| 34 | I know my solicitor is going to be annoyed by all this , but … |
| 35 | My boyfriend was allowed to be by my side throughout this operation . |
| 36 | Border emerged from that verbal fracas with a flea in his ear from Australian officials , but their patience is said to be wearing thin . |
| 37 | Its decision was thought to be motivated by concern about pressure from the US , which threatened during the meeting to impose trade sanctions on countries that resumed commercial whaling . |
| 38 | Naming rape victims without their permission is thought to be a bad thing . |
| 39 | The gap between the ride and the swamp was a different matter , for if the children were attempting that route their progress was bound to be slow . |
| 40 | Nobody knew for certain which building was going to be used , but there was a strong rumour that it was going to be the orfanotrofio , the orphanage . |
| 41 | The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn . |
| 42 | The couple , from Grimsby , Humberside , first feared their wedding was going to be a washout because of torrential rain . |
| 43 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |
| 44 | The injured woman was admitted to hospital in Bristol with serious burns , where her condition is said to be comfortable . |
| 45 | They were taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital where their condition was said to be stable . |
| 46 | I 've never seen the sort of breathtaking squalor I witnessed there but give them a day when their neighbourhood is shown to be worth the world running through it , gratefully accepting water and candy from them at the roadside , and it 's amazing the way mutual mistrust can disappear . |
| 47 | ( It should be made clear that , in the vast majority of cases , the poison is so aged that its potency is thought to be negligible . ) |
| 48 | Their origin is thought to be the east Mediterranean and if the majority were being imported into Kent very few were allowed to pass further . |
| 49 | The phasor potential difference across the capacitance C lags 90° behind the phasor potential difference VR across the resistance R , assuming negligible loading of the output taken between terminals P and O , while All of these aspects are maintained in the phasor diagram of figure 8.12(b) and its geometry is seen to be such that the point P moves over a circle , centre O , as the resistance R is varied . |
| 50 | Her spectre is reputed to be that of Frances Culpepper , daughter of Lord John Freschville . |
| 51 | Britain 's voluntary , though gradual , conversion of the colonial Empire into the British Commonwealth of Nations would help her recovery as a great power : her military commitments to provide overseas garrisons should diminish , and her influence was expected to be enhanced as she became the central pivot of an association of free and independent states girdling the globe . |
| 52 | that all its equipment is gon na be held on |
| 53 | Although her candidacy was dismissed in most quarters as irrelevant , she was potentially the best-funded of the candidates ( although much of her wealth was believed to be inaccessible in frozen Swiss bank accounts ) and had the advantage of the remnants of her husband 's huge patronage network . |
| 54 | Another conference on Jan. 27 , at which membership was reported to be between 150,000 and 200,000 , approved a programme favouring " radical disarmament and demilitarization of society , … a solidarity-based society which rests on the self-determination and tolerance of its citizens " , and the development of " the social net parallel to the [ market ] economy " . |
| 55 | Then came the day when his own two sons came home and asked their mother ‘ when their Daddy was going to be killed , because all racing-driver daddies got killed ’ . |
| 56 | And I 'm quite sure that a major factor in their recovery is going to be knowing that their children are happy , and being well cared for . ’ |
| 57 | Thus the observer looking for evidence of ‘ knowledge , skills , or expertise ’ in the activities of the specialist team might see it in their tendency , relative to the generic team , to visit more and to recommend and provide a wider range of services ; to make fewer offers of service that are refused ; and to encounter fewer occasions on which re-assessment is thought to be necessary . |
| 58 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 59 | Her husband is reported to be abroad at the moment . |
| 60 | The package of share options and perks on offer if LWT retained its franchise was said to be worth £3m . |