Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [pron] [verb] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite suddenly whether Anne worried or what she thought were not of the least importance . |
| 2 | They , the vast majority of them are not Shire Hall based er , administrative staff or what I think is generally er , the view , er , the general view of , of management and support . |
| 3 | Benjamin acted with all the authority he could muster : displaying Wolsey 's warrants and issuing orders in such harsh tones that everyone we met was soon running about as if the great Cardinal himself had arrived . |
| 4 | see a vehicle that you you recognize is not off the patch , they 'll they 'll radio it through to the base , to our base . |
| 5 | The Japanese are commended for making sure that everything they produce is strictly kosher . |
| 6 | I 've always been a huge fan of the whole Memphis sound — as I guess everybody has figured by now ! — but the thing about the Stax band was that everything they did was totally minimal , but it slotted together to make something really strong . |
| 7 | Karen never let me forget that everything we owned was originally hers and hers alone , and that I had not only contributed nothing to our joint capital but was n't bringing in any income either . |
| 8 | Glenys is really a strong critic , she tells me the truth , that 's the most important thing , because it simply would n't be any good living with a fan who said that everything you did was absolutely fine and perfect and wonderful , because nothing would have validity . |
| 9 | The belief that they do so , and compete for household spending with the costs of other ‘ consumer durables ’ until an acceptable living standard is achieved , is one of the underlying assumptions of the ‘ New Home Economics ’ approach to the economic analysis of family size variation , although one which has been strongly attacked ( Blake 1968 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ You want me to confirm that something you feel is all right is truly all right , ’ said the counsellor . |
| 11 | As it does so , individuals are able to become more conscious of the assumptions about personal worth and ‘ correct conduct ’ that they themselves had been tacitly making , and to see that an alternative personal philosophy could generate greater inner strength , and decrease their dependency on other people 's approval . |
| 12 | There is one felltop , however , that everybody who has been there will remember vividly ever after . |
| 13 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 14 | In ordinary parlance one might say that anyone who has been forcibly subjected to this offence has been raped ; the psychological effects are likely to be deep , and even if there is no risk of pregnancy ( as there is not from some rapes , since ejaculation is not part of the definition ) , there may be the risk of disease . |
| 15 | We will introduce legislation designed to give consumers confidence that what they purchase is properly described — and that adequate compensation is offered where these requirements are not met . |
| 16 | 8. ‘ … are the only organizations that have been able to do what they do at all , even though it might seem that what they do is not that difficult or mysterious a thing ’ . |
| 17 | Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job . |
| 18 | A trade union education that is — as some have rightly advocated — open to members as well as representatives , broad-based and educational rather than narrow and role-specific , continuing and recurrent rather than ad hoc and disparate , will itself produce limited and ephemeral results unless working people can see that what they learn is also practised in their own organisations . |
| 19 | Rather than merely assert that what we desire is already reality , therefore , I would argue that our job is to discuss the contradictions and possibilities in the law as it has developed historically , as part of and in response to political and economic struggles . |
| 20 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 21 | The New Theory of Vision explicitly teaches that what we see is not what we touch , and exists only in the mind , not in an external space . |
| 22 | ‘ I believe that what we do is morally positive in that it is keeping people alive . ’ |
| 23 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 24 | In the 19th century an anthology was made of all the surviving T'ang poetry and someone complained that what he saw was only a meagre yield from the vast harvest of its origin . |
| 25 | Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round . |
| 26 | She was coldly angry now that he should so calmly assume that what he desired was there for him to take . |
| 27 | The jury , however , does not ask whether the accused believed he was acting with the relevant state of mind , but under the Theft Acts as well as offences of fraud the jury must acquit if the accused believed that what he did was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 28 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 29 | It was n't , but how could she tell him that what she wanted was much , much more than he was prepared to give ? |
| 30 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I shall seek to find out the exact number of times and shall write to the Hon. Member , but I think that what I said was absolutely correct : that the sanctions are severe and are rarely used . |