Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it does is it means that there is a proper look each year at the finances of each individual firm er and er if there are things which are wrong , they are reported straight away and that really I think is the lesser of all of this with B C C I , er that er where things are not all they should be that they are dealt with and they are reported quickly and these orders , Madam Deputy Speaker , go a long way to helping to ensure that and for that reason I believe the house should warmly welcome them . |
| 2 | So all you pay is the fifteen for the lock and . |
| 3 | Following the success of the event , which we believe was the first of its kind in our field , we intend to hold a number of similar seminars in the future , for export and home-based customers , to confirm 's place as the leading flavour supplier to the crisp and snack industry throughout Europe . |
| 4 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 5 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 6 | Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them . |
| 7 | To say that it has been the poorer for it is not to denigrate the work that was done . |
| 8 | Data General aims to hit what it figures is the largest of the imaging markets : the turnkey multi-user arena . |
| 9 | DG aims to hit what it figures is the largest of the imaging markets : the turnkey multiuser arena . |
| 10 | It had been the faintest of sounds , but it was enough to bring her slowly to her feet , alert and expectant . |
| 11 | It had been the same for him and Nellie when James , their eldest son , was killed in France . |
| 12 | The polished wood floor , the scattered rugs , the furniture , it looked as if it had been the same for years , yet Kate could see the newness of the sofas , the curtains . |
| 13 | It had been the same with Road Works Ahead on the Long Drive . |
| 14 | It had been the same at the airport and I had thought then that perhaps he half expected Iris Sunderby to materialise out of the crowd . |
| 15 | It had been the same at school , when Davies had shoved him against the wall to see what he would do . |
| 16 | It had been the same at university . |
| 17 | It had been the same over the Christmas decorations . |
| 18 | It had been the same after their school days . |
| 19 | But it had been the easiest of the three days . |
| 20 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 21 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 22 | And in fact , I overheard Sir Ewen say it 's been the smallest for the past hundred years . ’ |
| 23 | The music has n't changed ; it 's been the same for the past few millennia . |
| 24 | The board bent over backwards to help me raise funds for players and it 's been the same for Nigel Best . |
| 25 | My wife and I waited over an hour for our meal last night and it 's been the same throughout our stay . ’ |
| 26 | Keith Hall has built a four bedroomed house which he claims is the first in the country to be environment friendly . |