Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pron] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 2 | He spent the black hours best in the writing of hopelessly happy propositions to her that he kept for comfort in a drawer , as if they were love letters received from her instead of dead ones from himself that he saw no good in posting . |
| 3 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 4 | His tone of voice objective , dispassionate , as if they were kitchen implements or gardening devices . |
| 5 | Two Creole girls squeezed oranges in the bows while Baccy shouted at his crew as if they were galley slaves rather than a bunch of half-drunk amateurs trying to have Sunday fun . |
| 6 | Advertising lessons at school as if they were TV programmes |
| 7 | He refers to his triptychs as being , ‘ three chapters in one novel ’ , but in his recent works the stories are all thrown together , juxtaposing , he says , ‘ as if they were stage sets ’ , liberating Pakenham 's palette . |
| 8 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 9 | Margaret pored over the sheet as if they were wedding photographs . |
| 10 | Haggett got in there with his bayonet , and speared the two as if they were straw figures . |
| 11 | When national stations broadcast chiefly in the shortwaves the range of different newscasts available is immediately wider ; when people have every expectation that all broadcasts will tell some lies , they use different broadcasts as if they were radio beacons for navigators of truth : knowing the position of each , they can calculate the co-ordinates of reality with an acceptable degree of certainty . |
| 12 | Down the pit , on the rugby football field , in the pub , telling stories , singing anthems as if they were war songs , and finding poetry — Dylan Thomas , Gwyn Thomas , R. S. Thomas — in the country of the Red Dragon . |
| 13 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 14 | To my mind it is as much of a prostitution of literary talent as Hemingway committed by his glorification of bullfighting , to read the likes of Allan Massie , lending his elegant prose to the description of pugilists , praising boxing as an art-form as if they were opera singers engaged in an aria celebrating physical courage in a coloratura of fists . |
| 15 | And certainly Broughton and one or two of the older boarders regularly drew a cheap safety razor over the blonde fuzz on their cheeks , and anxiously inspected the shavings as if they were virility tokens . |
| 16 | He simply could not go around labelling people , and moving them about as if they were chess pieces , just to suit his own ends . |
| 17 | Soon Jaq and Meh'Lindi were donning their stout suits of power armour and Grimm his smaller version of the same , while Googol disdainfully assisted Moma Parsheen into his own suit , his lips curled , as if he was packaging excrement . |
| 18 | Athelstan hammered on the door until Sir John 's wife appeared — a small , bird-like woman much younger than Cranston , who greeted her husband as if he was Hector back from the wars . |
| 19 | " Yesterday ! " cried Matthew and raised his knife at arm 's length , as if he were St George and had just slaughtered the dragon . |
| 20 | The Inland Revenue treats a scrip dividend as if it was cash income . |
| 21 | She had thrown on an old dress and not much else , and she played with the frying-pan as if it were Pancake Day . |
| 22 | Prepared small group work can similarly be viewed in context as if it were video material , or plays acted out — showing , for example , the bravest thing they have ever done . |
| 23 | Their sleep disturbed , their murmured resentment rises into a wind , stirring up the packed clay of the wasteground as if it were desert sand . |
| 24 | Not as if it were Mr James giving a treat . |
| 25 | I 'd heard Dad and Eva in the bar analysing the performance as if it were Miles Davis 's farewell appearance . |
| 26 | The distance they are prepared and able to travel will depend , of course , upon whether they are car owners or , if not , on public transport facilities . |
| 27 | That support will undoubtedly be forthcoming for while it is Frank Holden today , who knows , into the future , who will be put into a similar predicament if the Bank is allowed to get away with its present unreasonable stance . |
| 28 | Well it er it will be wood but whether it 's covered over whether it 's wood grain or whether it 's white or I do n't know . |
| 29 | When I was speaking t very very briefly erm to Ian before before I came down he said , well I 'm really not surprised , the the the continuing problem and difficulty in establishing what 's on the palette , as to whether it 's lawn feed and weed , lawn feed and , for example . |
| 30 | They will be different in terms of the sort of interaction they expect to have with computer depending on whether they 're data entry people or management users and maybe some of our users are people in the street , our customers er who who will increasingly become users of systems themselves . |