Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb base] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're here because we want to see Earth Commander . ’ |
| 2 | Some requests or demands are reasonable and fair , but others certainly might not be so because they fail to take into account the child 's right to his/her needs and point of view , or because they are inappropriate to his/her level of development . |
| 3 | This may be so though I venture to doubt it . |
| 4 | Our constituents look to us to obtain redress ; if the only satisfaction that we can give them is to say that the matter is out of our hands , it will not be long before they begin to wonder why they voted for us at all . |
| 5 | If they do , it may not be long before we have to pay the price . |
| 6 | Enter stage right disc jockey Jimmy Franks of BRMB , local independent radio in Birmingham , the only chap who happens to be around when I phone to see if anyone there could help me out . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I 'm here because I want to help you … ‘ |
| 8 | Bill Walker , MP , who has criticised the Scottish Office for what he says is their failure to help the family , said : ‘ I will be here when they come to evict the family and I will stand shoulder to shoulder with them . ’ |
| 9 | Otherwise he might n't be there when you go to pick him up . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Then one night Hugo and Jebb ( The Mouse 's twanging Boothby twins ) went there for a quiet beer and the DJ was going , ‘ I 've heard that a couple of Jacob 's Mouse are here and I want to tell them to get off their high horse and come down to play here . |
| 11 | The agent 's estimates are here if you want to look at them . ’ |
| 12 | Such themes are there if you choose to identify them but they are woven through a tightly-written narrative which will hold you from beginning to end . |
| 13 | It may be that last year 's sales figures were up and you want to stimulate others to greater efforts . |
| 14 | But er we shall be without him for the next fortnight erm so somebody 'll have to come in and score a few goals for us but often you know , you discover things that erm you never knew were there when you have to fill in gaps that have suddenly arisen . |
| 15 | But Mr Bliss is right that we have to assume that the abductors are politically motivated terrorists — ‘ ' |
| 16 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 17 | Well I think it 's only if you want to do er you know like doing it for some , something or other is n't it ? |
| 18 | It 's only as you begin to come out of the Ketamine state that you begin to appreciate where you are or where you 've been . |
| 19 | But everyone else is in but I want to clear Wednesday and Thursday cos I want we want to go up to Suffolk . |
| 20 | It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night . |
| 21 | ‘ It is only because you want to pry , to discover who writes to me , that you come out in this way every morning . |
| 22 | It 's enough that you have to pay for the licence , which is erm , what is it eighty pounds |
| 23 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 24 | This is not because they wish to act in the public interest as exemplified in the values of their political masters , but rather because they wish to succeed in their careers and the way to do so is to appear efficient . |
| 25 | This is not because they want to preserve General de Gaulle 's regime . |
| 26 | This is just while I remember to tell you . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's just that we have to see the hearth if we 're to know you 're in an old farmhouse . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
| 29 | No it 's just that I like to get all this out of the way . |
| 30 | Yeah that 's it 's just that I want to clarify that . |