Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] be [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Satisfactory though casing may be for books which a careless age does not expect to be long-lived , it can not compare in craftsmanship and durability with the old method properly practised . |
| 2 | ( An alternative toast could be to friendships which endure forever . ) |
| 3 | But for whole class playback sessions the general focus should be on things which affect everyone in the group . |
| 4 | The development will be on land which has been in constant industrial use since 1758 and was , until recently , a steel works . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) A tender offer must be for cash which precludes a buyer from offering " roll-over " tax relief to shareholders by means of a securities exchange ( see para 23.2.1 below ) . |
| 6 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 7 | Erm if it 's um well generally speaking I think , thinking about what the sort of consensus would be among people who who study this sort of thing , they 're usually looking for some sort of of discrepancy in ages or powers or something . |
| 8 | It believes its TeleScript technology will be to computers what Postscript was to printer . |
| 9 | That that part of the earth will be in darkness it will be in night time on that side of the earth and from then on in space there will be darkness because the earth will be in the way . |