Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to the Swindon match next Saturday & I was wondering if there was any chance of a lift from deepest London ? |
| 2 | They telephoned me at the St. Ermin 's Hotel , where Mollie and I were staying while our house in Smith Square was under repair , to pledge their support . |
| 3 | David and I were wondering if we could take you out for a spot of lunch . |
| 4 | EUROPEAN Community officials were stoking fears last night of an all-out trade war with the United States after it was disclosed that British and other European steelmakers could face crippling new duties on exports to America . |
| 5 | Potatoes were planted on Good Friday as it was believed that this was one day on which the Devil had no power to poison and ruin the soil . |
| 6 | Here is an example spoken by David when he is told that his son has been killed : |
| 7 | But he added that the complaint by Mrs Taylor that she was sacked because she refused to work on Sundays was not accepted by the tribunal . |
| 8 | This section deals mainly with the impact of mineral working , and the restoration of exhausted sites , in south and south east England although it is recognised that some of the most serious environmental problems occur in the National Parks and in areas where deep and opencast mining are carried out . |
| 9 | I loved Jeanne and I was devastated when she died . |
| 10 | The Conservatives would continue to commercialise and privatise the NHS until it is run as just another business . |
| 11 | Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council . |
| 12 | The discrepancy was recognized in 1859 by Leverrier and it was proposed that a small undetected planet was the cause . |
| 13 | The possibility of attacking Korea as part of this process was considered in May but it was decided that the Kyushu operation should be sufficient . |
| 14 | If not , how few Tory Members do there need to be in Scotland before it is accepted that the status quo is no longer tenable ? |
| 15 | Paul Turner was on his first tour of duty in Northern Ireland when he was shot while on patrol . |
| 16 | ‘ What we wanted to tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ was that we'se goin' up the woods on Saturdee and we was wonderin' if you 'd come with us like . ’ |
| 17 | They were due to give a concert at the Odeon , Weston-super-Mare and it was planned that we would do our piece with the Stones on the roof . |
| 18 | Badger-baiting is at an all-time high in East and North Yorkshire and it is estimated that each year in Great Britain as many as 9,000 badgers meet a premature death . |
| 19 | Neighbourhood Watch The first step has been taken to form a neighbourhood watch in Foulis Crescent and it is hoped that Woodhall Avenue and Drive will set one in motion in the near future . |
| 20 | Neighbourhood Watch The first step has been taken to form a neighbourhood watch in Foulis Crescent and it is hoped that Woodhall Avenue and Drive will set one in motion in the near future . |
| 21 | I have to skirt round Broad Street because they 're demolishing and there 's a great big red one and a yellow one and I 'm just terrified . |
| 22 | The council has been involved in a separate row over Bellarmine because it is insisting that staff must apply for jobs at the school to which their pupils would transfer . |
| 23 | Dexter knew it was tempting to ask Lancaster whether he was lying and that he really meant that he could n't face the idea of seeing his wife again , a wife he had murdered and left a bloody corpse on the floor downstairs only a few minutes before . |
| 24 | The Dwarfs inside Kislev attempted to break out to help Magnus but they were contained and forced back behind the city 's walls . |
| 25 | These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold . |
| 26 | Willie Baxter was gripped by fear , he did n't understand it , he hated the dark tunnels , he stopped walking and the noise stopped ; by now Willie was probably near the point where the tunnels passed under the River Clyde and it was said that it was possible to hear the sound of a ship 's propeller whenever a vessel passed overhead . |
| 27 | yeah and he 's deciding that Adam and he 's deciding that Adam were n't worth it and |
| 28 | Women made up only a minor proportion of the prison population in Geurrero and I was assured that this situation was reflected throughout Mexico . |
| 29 | Steve Goodwin is The Drummer From Cud and he 's pretending that he thinks it 's a really cool joke ha ha ha that both he and the band he loves have become a synonym for wanky indie crap . |
| 30 | It was at this time that we read Morgan Forster 's article in the Listener about George Crabbe and we were touched and interested enough to seek out a copy of Crabbe 's poems and I well remember my surprise in discovering a mid-19th-century edition in San Diego , I think . |