Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm used to clients demanding overtime . |
| 2 | I think , in fact , if I 'm right about soaps becoming more conservative in this way , then does this mean that feminist arguments are no longer seen as relevant for a mass audience ? |
| 3 | ‘ I assumed he was unmarried and I was used to men coming on to me , ’ she says . |
| 4 | Last Saturday their race was on last and I was aware of spectators leaving or attempting to leave before the Classics went to the line . |
| 5 | She is critical of attitudes stressing the paramountcy of biological parenthood as being ambivalent and contradictory . |
| 6 | Whatever Laura 's motives — Moira believes she expected her to take injections or pills to dry up her milk supply entirely ; Bernard believes she was opposed to mothers returning to work so soon — the atmosphere was charged . |
| 7 | She was aware of faces staring at her as she walked along the paved streets , and she swayed over the uneven surface like a seasick sailor . |
| 8 | She was aware of footsteps running through the house . |
| 9 | She was aware of fingertips rubbing her clitoris with similar motions to those she used to masturbate . |
| 10 | In these appeals we are concerned with issues arising out of the procedure by which the Secretary of State for the Home Department decides , in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , the date on which a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life may be released on licence . |
| 11 | Sponsorship is not a prerequisite for any of our courses but we are happy for students to arrange sponsorship if they wish to do so . |
| 12 | We are aware of brands going under the names Nicostop , Nicorene , Nicotine Patch , Nicocheck , and Nicoban . |
| 13 | They are used to politicians listening with some care to their demands , and the evidence of this attention and the obvious impact of general elections is usually sufficient to make them feel that the old maxims of the Westminster model still have some meaning . |
| 14 | Here cycle tracks may be taken from road space , but as they are delimited only by markings they are available for cars to pull into when they need to pass oncoming traffic . |
| 15 | For over fifty years selected local bus operators have been given monopoly rights on their routes in return for which they are subject to fares control and expected to plough back any profits from good services to maintain loss-making routes . |
| 16 | They are concerned with grievances held by individuals against the two Government Departments who administer social security benefits . |
| 17 | As with the indecent assaults on males , the predominant feature of these reports is that they are concerned with men abusing their positions of trust rather than being some unknown sex beasts who are assaulting victims not known to them prior to the offence . |
| 18 | As has already been mentioned , young children are particularly at risk , and they are dependent on adults to protect them from the potential dangers in their home environment . |
| 19 | The waters beneath the plankton contain no plants , but they are full of creatures feeding upon the plankton above , or on the bottom dwellers below , or which are migrating from one rich feeding ground to another . |
| 20 | In the present context they are important for attempts to relate transition to turbulence to transition to chaos , a matter we shall be considering in Section 24.7 . |
| 21 | They 're angry over plans aimed at encouraging parents to take up teaching in primary schools . |
| 22 | Fanatics such as Obispal were invaluable ; yet they were akin to bulls set loose in china shops . |
| 23 | One expected feature of Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6 was missing : it was to have incorporated a LAN Manager and Windows for Workgroup client — but corporate beta testers demanded its removal before they would install the thing saying they were worried about users getting unauthorised access to servers . |
| 24 | They were popular with workers taking holidays from the industrial towns . |
| 25 | At Edingley when they discussed this they were concerned about buses going down Station Lane . |
| 26 | According to the Council Regulations agreed by transport ministers on 22 June 1992 , total free trade in air services between and within countries must wait until 1997 ; only then will it be possible for airlines to operate freely within particular countries , the so-called ‘ cabotage ’ rights . |
| 27 | ‘ Would it be lawful for workers to refuse to handle imports from South Africa ? ’ |
| 28 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 29 | It 's immoral for lawyers to take advantage of people 's grief this way . |
| 30 | 40 windsurfers share with 30 dinghy sailors and non-sailing friends , in this flexible resort where it 's possible for windsurfers to sail in Toppers or Lasers , and where the dinghy sailors can easily dabble in a little windsurfing . |