Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | My films never pretend to be anything but artefacts — they 're unnatural , contrived , fashioned , unrealistic , on purpose . |
| 2 | The latter symptom , common among individualists , manifests itself as a refusal to acknowledge the problem : while seeking to defend complex theoretical claims , individualists frequently take the intuitive truth of their own doctrine to be so overwhelmingly obvious that its opponents scarcely need to be taken seriously . |
| 3 | The idea of what they ought to do is more subtle and will come to them only if they love and trust their parents enough to want to be like them . |
| 4 | The passenger committee addressed its appeals to political and religious leaders throughout Europe ; though its messages now had to be shorter , since the shipping line had withdrawn free cabling facilities . |
| 5 | History can vouch for the kind of rapid change of fortune and geography which beset Aubrey and Maturin , nor are their actions ever allowed to be improbable . |
| 6 | Many mothers of sons never see them to talk to on their own from the day they marry , because their daughters-in-law always expect to be present on every conceivable occasion , and this is something that can build up a very understandable resentment . |
| 7 | Lying upon the sand at a distance of 200 yards [ 180 m ] , their bodies often seem to be a uniform dull chrome yellow , but in reality the entire upper surface of the animal from snout to tail is of a uniform olive green , mottled with the former colour . |
| 8 | Several reaction pathways and their rates still have to be explored , and these could radically alter the model calculations . |
| 9 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 10 | The system of interest group pressure ensuring state responsiveness to its publics thus appears to be flawed . |
| 11 | Their reflexes also tend to be quicker , with decision-making resting in the hands of one person . |
| 12 | Most of her flowers therefore tend to be in blue , which she would really prefer to combine merely with white to set against all the greens of the garden — but soft shades of mauve and pink also creep in . |
| 13 | Small companies still tend to be inhibited by the cost of using such services and within larger firms the knowledge of their benefits still seems to be limited to a small number of individuals and not widely recognised within the company as a resource . |
| 14 | Her clothes never seemed to be quite right . |
| 15 | ‘ Mani manent cum nostris semper in aeternum , Primarche ! ’ the Reclusiarch chanted in the hieratic religious tongue , which his listeners only comprehended to be a blend of sacred plainsong and occult invocation . |
| 16 | A horse that pulls with his ears forward tends to be just eager . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , he 's OK ; his ideas certainly seem to be more in tune with OBEX policies than Graham Rowell 's ever were . ’ |
| 18 | And whenever he was with people , he mustered his energies together to appear to be ‘ normal ’ . |
| 19 | Your shoes always had to be clean , brushed , you see ? |
| 20 | ‘ Your kitchens obviously continue to be in great demand , ’ Ashley said . |