Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [prep] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it used to be until I got that letter . |
| 2 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 3 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 4 | Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring . |
| 5 | Things we make in the UK are much more readily exportable than they used to be because of this . |
| 6 | you know like it 's reversed they thought they , they , the words , so they must of been if that 's how it is |
| 7 | ‘ It is n't the stigma that it used to be and — ’ |
| 8 | And we 've got you know that is actually a lot lower than it used to be because we they actually caught us charging them three hundred and fifty quid for a bearing that we 're now charging them two hundred and fifty quid for . |
| 9 | However , this is much less widespread than it used to be and two surgeons from Guys Hospital in London and Withington Hospital in Manchester believe this is a mistake . |
| 10 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 11 | We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes . |
| 12 | and it must of been because of that |
| 13 | Ah yes , but now that 's very interesting because that 's not the same as was the old regulation with the H N D recognition with Napier , and it used to be as I understood it that you had to actually be in membership and leave a period of time between doing the certificate and the diploma . |
| 14 | It has dawned on the stock market that accounts are not as reliable as they ought to be and that dubious accounting practices may reflect underlying difficulties or at least lead to some distortion in the market 's valuation of a company 's shares . |
| 15 | It is now very difficult to park a car in Funchal as areas are being made into pedestrian streets and the central reservations in Avenida Arriaga are being restored to walking areas , as they used to be before cars took them over . |
| 16 | Employers are not as co-operative as they used to be and players ca n't afford to throw up a job with the employment market as it is ’ — GEORGE SPOTSWOOD ( Irish RFU technical officer ) . |
| 17 | She had never learned to read , either , and on the very rare occasions she received a letter Christine was called in to read it to her , Miss Miggs being careful to explain that her eyes were n't as good as they used to be or that she could n't find her glasses . |
| 18 | Harrowing stuff with emotions , hormones and nerve ends aching , but for all the quality of the acting and the script , it does n't seem as moving as it ought to be but it is hard to define why not . |
| 19 | that 's the only link with Caldmore as it used to be and Caldmore as it is now |
| 20 | Alain Prost is not as quick as he used to be but was smarter , and Nigel Mansell is not the smoothest driver around but he has a lot of ‘ mechanical talent ’ . |