Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 2 | But on the picket line Bob Busby had pointed out to her that the Shadow Scheme was official University business and that she would be strike-breaking if she kept her appointment . |
| 3 | If hon. Members plan to refer to that document , it would be helpful if they addressed its basic flaws . |
| 4 | He would be angry if she preferred her mother 's help to his . |
| 5 | For others , however , it will be plain that they made their asylum claim to extend their stay here only when they had failed to prolong it by other means . |
| 6 | Their rows centred on his failure to be available when she needed his support rather than her ability to be physically present but absent in every other way . |
| 7 | They might be shocked if they realized their destructive influence on those they meet Last night I was at a social gathering . |
| 8 | Even Einstein , when he formulated the general theory of relativity in 1915 , was so sure that the universe had to be static that he modified his theory to make this possible , introducing a so-called cosmological constant into his equations . |
| 9 | It 'd be nice if he paid your bus fares for you . |
| 10 | But you would still not be surprised if it ended its useful life after ten years or so of daily use . |
| 11 | If she was lucky , she would be dead before they had their chance . |
| 12 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |