Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assisted the Frenchman who was tending the wounded before they were carried away . |
| 2 | The typical Mediterranean wine-olive-wheat complex began , in the eighteenth century , an expansion and modification that were to continue , after the shocks of war , into the nineteenth and which were to transform the agricultural potential of Catalonia . |
| 3 | They had a two year romance in the thirties but it was broken up by the war and the appearance of Rose 's first husband . |
| 4 | There are similarities between the Thirties and what is happening now but they are still relatively thin . |
| 5 | The whole episode illustrates the problems facing businesses caused by over-extending themselves and living beyond their means — there was little substance to the so-called boom of the 80s and we are paying for it today . |
| 6 | ‘ Change-orientation ’ is the youngest and it is gaining ground . |
| 7 | How did one ask someone what they were doing on the night of the twenty-eighth if one was pretending to be engaged in merely casual conversation ? |
| 8 | Erm you 've got this , this business of threatening to attack the Serbian guns erm involves of course the decisions of individual governments whether or not they 're prepared to allow their forces to be involved , in the case of the British whether you 're going to allow your forces to get involved in it or not , but in international terms it involves both NATO , which has now passed a resolution saying unless certain conditions are met by a certain time , then there will be bombing of the Serbian positions but the people on the ground , whether they originally came from France or the Ukraine or from Britain , are in fact under the blue beret of the United Nations and the United Nations and NATO are not altogether , they 're not precisely together on this issue . |
| 9 | Well I 'm going to put twenty there where we 've put the tens and I 'm going to start shh . |
| 10 | Cos you clean a little bit , you clean the outside and it 's raining , cos you ca n't take the hoover out there and |
| 11 | This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all . |
| 12 | They referred to a statement allegedly made by one of the accused that they were to receive payment from Mrs Mandela once the murder had been carried out . |
| 13 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 14 | Their distinctive features have been chronicled ( with evident pride ) by Schaffer ( 1970 ) and Evans ( 1972 ) ; the first because , as a civil servant , he had been much associated with the programme , the second because it was written for the Town and Country Planning Association , long the champions of planned dispersal . |
| 15 | It 's actually called a perfect octave but they never worry about the perfect when you 're talking about an octave . |
| 16 | Mr Hodgson explained that in buying up so many small firms , who really could no longer make ends meet , he , Howard Hodgson , could do better and cheaper funerals and that no one need worry about the cost any way , because if the deceased or whoever was taking the responsibility of next-of-kin possessed less than £300 , the DHSS would pay for the whole thing . |
| 17 | had been a student here back in the seventies before he was expelled for getting drunk . |
| 18 | Now it 's got the three and we 're batting for each other , you know playing on the same side . |
| 19 | the aerial and he 's trailing some in the back window as well . |
| 20 | Well we know the opposite and we 're trying to find the adjacent . |
| 21 | ‘ Did you hear that Steve , they would n't say the opposite if it was raining . ’ |
| 22 | But if the worst comes to the worst and you are called up , Walter , remember there is always a spare bedroom here . |
| 23 | Local journalist Mike Stairs has been following the story closely , but says it was n't until the mid-'80s that it was given national attention . |
| 24 | Enter by the porter 's lodge ; if no one is there go to the door in the first courtyard on the left and someone is bound to come to your aid . |
| 25 | The sickening that I was making a mess of the first real pitch of the first real pitch of IV± , and that I 'd have to take my sack off if I was going to stay on , swept over me . |
| 26 | Secondly , the more grey scales the scanner can resolve the better as we are going to be trading these against resolution for the best compromise . |
| 27 | As good-luck would have it , he was in a stronger position than usual , because , as he mentioned with one of his quick smiles , the University of Bristol was about to give him an honorary degree , one of the fourteen that he was to accumulate . |
| 28 | But , you know , the situation is difficult in that if the people did move in there 's not a lot you can do about it because it would mean that you would have to surrender the lease , which means you 've let the guarantors off the hook for paying the then and you 're left without a tenant whatsoever . |
| 29 | Now that really does put you directly in the front-line when you 're answering the phone , so that call could be for anybody , when you take up a night-line call . |
| 30 | I have met wonderful doctors who really cared for their old patients , but sometimes the doctors were dismissive and rude , believing that there was little point in wasting valuable resources on the elderly as they were going to die soon anyway . |