Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] be [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1962 the Molony Committee on Consumer Protection declared itself to be strongly in favour of the service and recognised its potential : |
| 2 | Now you know that this lesson 's particularly difficult for me to be here on time . |
| 3 | You have to remember I was only 19 when I first came here and people were expecting me to be totally in control . |
| 4 | And do not expect them to be up to date — if you carry on reading Practical PC you might soon know more about state of the art computing than the tutor . |
| 5 | When it came to shopping , which is after all one of the main features of urban living , the average Parisian was a provincial who liked to choose his butcher and baker and who wanted them to be near at hand . |
| 6 | If we are expecting a good level of practice from proprietors , whether private proprietors or statutory , then we have not to expect them to be out of pocket at the end of the day as a result . |
| 7 | a It was a_________occurrence for him to be away from school . |
| 8 | ‘ It will take him six weeks to recover so we expect him to be out of action for longer than that , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 9 | ‘ It will take him six weeks to recover so we expect him to be out of action for longer than that , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 10 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 11 | Lance-Corporal John Shaw ( 1789–1815 ) , a prize-fighter whose magnificent physique caused him to be much in demand as an artist 's model . |
| 12 | George Eliot too is not without sympathy for the picturesque , and admits that ‘ the stray hovel , its old , old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys with wondrous modulations of light and shadow ’ , is an element of joy in landscape to her midland-bred soul ; yet her attack on the picturesque view of the decaying farm , owned by Mr Brooke and ironically known as ‘ Freeman 's End ’ , shows her to be substantially in sympathy with Dorothea . |
| 13 | In my view the body is no more than a bag , a costume or a cover and I 'm altering it to be more in line with how I see myself . ’ |
| 14 | Is it to be only for fun and general amusement , or are you a perfectionist , seeking impeccable exposures and absolute control over the photography ? |
| 15 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |