Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These require that where a company is charged , the mental state ( i.e. of knowledge or recklessness ) must be proved to have existed in the mind of a person who was or formed part of the directing mind of the company . |
| 2 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 3 | This has a singular effect in travelling through the country : the eye seems ever on the verge of a forest which is as it were by enchantment continually changing into inclosures and hedgerows . |
| 4 | For a second it was as though she were frozen , unable to move . |
| 5 | I mean t to for the cooking that they did for a pub it was and we had duckling and salmon , poached |
| 6 | For a moment it was as though they had stepped through the doorway and into a Mediterranean resort . |
| 7 | I thought for a start it was because moving the dead body might have been a very messy business . |
| 8 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 9 | ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder . |
| 10 | ‘ I know this is going to sound a bit silly , but in a way it was because of her that I came here . ’ |
| 11 | Well , well , over , over a period it 's and other things too but this this set of murals and are involved in it . |
| 12 | FSA applies to a transaction which is or is to be entered into by a person as principal only if he is , effectively , a market maker |