Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the independent central bank , which I believe is part of the long-term anti-inflation policy . |
| 2 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 3 | And they gave ITN a film to smuggle out which they said was proof of beatings . |
| 4 | Instead , the same flat rate applies to everyone , multiplied by the number of years in which they have been participants of the scheme . |
| 5 | After a fight between lads from Menheniot and Liskeard , at which he had been champion of the victorious Liskeard team , the local constable had intervened . |
| 6 | Beeren took on the job from Edy de Wilde in 1985 , before which he had been Director of the Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam . |
| 7 | A syllogism with premisses of this sort gives a demonstrative understanding of the causes why things necessarily have the properties they do , because the definitions with which it starts are definitions of the ‘ forms ’ of these things , and formal causes are one of the four kinds of cause which Aristotle distinguished . |
| 8 | As far as local government is concerned the extent and direction of change to which it has been subject since the 1960s are difficult to explain mainly in terms of the state itself . |
| 9 | I spent what I assume was transition with an almost continuous pain in my left side and feeling sick as well . |
| 10 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 11 | This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy . |
| 12 | What I know is sense of others profits . |
| 13 | Or : ‘ What I want is paper with narrow lines , |
| 14 | What I needed were points on the line which exist rather than those which are only theoretical . |
| 15 | What I need is advice from time to time . |
| 16 | Defiantly she answered , ‘ I 'm not a cow , Brian , ’ yet hated herself for what she supposed was perfidy in his eyes . |
| 17 | What you have are groups of people who display superficially similar symptoms for a variety of different reasons . |
| 18 | What we want is peace with security . " |
| 19 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 20 | But shadow home secretary Tony Blair said : ‘ What we need is schools of responsibility , not colleges of crime . ’ |
| 21 | Oh , what we need is Richard over here to give us some of his crazy comments , yeah . |
| 22 | I think what we need is commitments within the area of search . |
| 23 | ‘ What we need is information about what happened to the tsar 's family . |
| 24 | What we need are outlets for emotion . |
| 25 | The Palestinians , many of whom are desperate as a result of roots in the poverty of the refugee camps , hold few cards other than their determination not to be subdued and the ‘ armed struggle ’ through which this determination is sometimes expressed ; what they seek is recognition of some form of statehood on Palestinian soil . |
| 26 | When Frobisher sailed to the north of America in 1576 , inspired by hopes of finding a north-west passage to India or China in the way that hopes of finding a north-east passage had led to the voyage that opened up the Muscovy trade , he and his backers were excited to find what they thought was gold on the route . |
| 27 | The minority , which could muster only 160 votes against the majority 's 855 , displayed considerable bitterness towards what they said was pressure on them to accept independence , and threats that they would lose their jobs or worse . |
| 28 | S but what they say is part of his managerial status demanded him having a company car to which I was given one as well but in effect that then became his wife 's because he was still banned for drink driving . |
| 29 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 30 | Instinctively , they are good players ; what they need is exposure to international matches . |