Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [noun] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I believe we live in a representative democracy , not one where we 're delegates of our constituents . |
| 2 | The early inhabitants had to go where there was grass for their animals to feed on and this mobile existence dictated that the home was some form of tent . |
| 3 | The early inhabitants had to go where there was grass for their animals to feed on and this mobile existence dictated that the home was some form of tent . |
| 4 | I met her once or twice , at church and at other houses where there were children of our age . |
| 5 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |
| 6 | Give us the words to share the good news over all the earth , today and in the coming weeks ; change our lives so that other people can see that You are Lord of our lives , and may be attracted to You . |
| 7 | ‘ In the circumstances , I think we will follow you , but let me remind you that we are envoys of His Gracious Majesty King Henry VIII of England . ’ |
| 8 | Britain has little to fear because although there are deficiencies in our law it is much better than most . |
| 9 | She was smiling , although there were tears in her grey eyes . |
| 10 | Almost immediately there was trouble with her fellow-travellers on account of her ‘ great weeping and boisterous sobbing ’ , and her continual exhortations to the good life , which she would not cease from even at meals . |
| 11 | Does the Attorney-General accept that there is concern about our procedures ? |
| 12 | No doubt it will very quickly become apparent to the reader that there are differences in their philosophical assumptions that may not be reconcilable . |
| 13 | Now , you , you 're , that 's a subjective feeling , you do n't actually know that there are neurones in your blood sugar level , but you , you certainly know when you need something to eat and it , it 's a kind of subjective feeling and it 's not farfetched in the least to claim that our genes have rigged our brain in that way to do that because obviously we 'd like to have more reproductive success if you know when you 're hungry than when you do n't and it may be that a lot of , in a lot of other ways genes affect our , our behaviour through similar erm effects , that is subjective feelings we have , often of an emotional nature to make us want to do certain things and an an and dislike doing others , and it may be that we , we 're really kind of lumbered with that . |
| 14 | Michael Brunson tried a rude personal question , but by the time it had been translated into official interviewese — ‘ Would you accept that there are worries about your being in Downing Street ? ’ — it hardly sounded like a question , let alone a rude question . |
| 15 | Mr Onanuga admits that there are aspects of his story which do not appear to add up . |
| 16 | Admittedly , most positivists had acknowledged that there were problems with their data . |
| 17 | What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I 'm avoiding Broad Street because of the cranes , ’ Meg replied , and Lee saw that there were tears in her eyes . |
| 19 | Anne looked at me and I could see , even in the state I was in , that there were tears in her eyes . |
| 20 | I had not realized until then that there were tears in my eyes . |
| 21 | There was no denying the fact that there were gaps in her memory because of the drugs . |
| 22 | Mr Ian Karsten , for the board , told a Bristol University appeal committee hearing that there were passages in his script which were ‘ bizarre and remarkable and which require explanation ’ . |
| 23 | Joanne sensed that this was not quite true as she was aware that there were children within her classes who had not learned what she thought she had taught them . |
| 24 | The east coast has more bays , coves , villages and anchorages to visit than there are days in your holiday , and the west coast has dramatic cliffs , sea caves and a spectacular rock arch to explore . |
| 25 | The Government fail to appreciate — although they are prisoners of their own rhetoric and ideology — several important points which others readily grasp and would clearly like to do something about . |
| 26 | She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble . |
| 27 | Because the device drivers operate at DOS level , the new drives appear as additional drives to the client machine — in both DOS and Windows — so much so that you could be forgiven for thinking that they were part of your machine . |
| 28 | but er I think that they were part of your pay rise one year was it ? |
| 29 | One famous example of this was when he asked students to pretend that they were boarders in their own homes , and to behave accordingly . |
| 30 | Owing to Amal 's seclusion as a female , she could not identify her attackers by name , only that they were acquaintances of her brother . |