Example sentences of "[that] [pos pn] [noun sg] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , well yeah I 've learnt that my wife is more use than just in the kitchen . |
| 2 | But now that you are reaching voting age and puberty , and will inevitably soon experience the same condition , I must tell you that my penis is fluorescent green and that I have five foreskins . |
| 3 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 4 | A pipette is inserted gradually into the fluid so that its inlet is 20 cm below the surface and a volume of 20 ml is withdrawn 58 s from the start of settling . |
| 5 | Ltd. v. Ogden ( 1978 C.A. ) the owner of a vessel which a customer was considering hiring told the customer that its payload was 1,600 tons , whereas its payload was in fact only 1,055 tons ( so stated in the ship 's documents ) . |
| 6 | This can be represented by a context called Title with a property that its font is two points bigger than its containing font . |
| 7 | Even as she reassured Emilia once more that her concern was groundless Louisa found herself reflecting on the power of the weak , its hold upon the minds of others . |
| 8 | But has a clerk got the right to tell a couple that their wedding is nonessential spending ? |
| 9 | The bishops were sent to the Tower on the grounds that their petition was seditious libel . |
| 10 | He was never able to reveal that his life was pure hell . |
| 11 | In September Hayhurst wrote to the Goldsmiths to complain that his salary was several quarters in arrear . |
| 12 | He knew that his slowness was annoying James Grierson . |
| 13 | That his quest was common knowledge astounded and dismayed him . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't see that his nationality is any concern of yours , ’ she answered . |
| 15 | Finch always maintained that he was never a hellraiser and that his image was wishful publicity by the press . |
| 16 | Almost nothing is known of his family , childhood , or early education except that his father was private messenger to George IV and William IV , and that he had one sister and two brothers . |
| 17 | Sead used to weigh 12 stone … now he 's half that His brother was 13 stone … he 's down to 9 stone |
| 18 | Then , apparently deciding that the idyll was over , he wandered away , his limp much less apparent now that his wound was healing well . |
| 19 | that me sister 's each time . |
| 20 | Rhode & Schwarz take space to congratulate EBU on ‘ the great success achieved with RDS adding , not too disinterestedly , ‘ the fact that our equipment is supporting RDS in more than a thousand FM radio stations worldwide makes us rather proud ’ . |
| 21 | Hansom believes that your species , Australopithecus tanzaniensis , was our ancestor , and Luckey maintains that this belief is wrong and that our ancestor was another species of the genus Homo . |
| 22 | No one has told them that your hotel is eight miles from the nearest town , which in fact is only an overgrown village . |
| 23 | But you know you were saying that your fridge was fifteen years old , that one . |