Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [conj] [pron] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man 's prison sentence is another man 's reprieve , though having escaped a mugging by Tyson , Holyfield understands that he 's still only on bail from the charge that he 's a heavyweight fraud . |
| 2 | Koons says that it is exactly this childlike aspect that makes her vulnerable to the tacky mandarins of the porn industry , whom Koons loathes , despite the mountain of mad flesh in Made in Heaven . |
| 3 | Franca said , ‘ Pat says when he 's well he 'll come to your father and be his servant . ’ |
| 4 | Aunt Bella says that it 's more economical to buy like that , but I know it 's because she 's afraid . |
| 5 | Falkowski shows that he is very much his own man as a conductor . |
| 6 | The actor may while he is on stage feel deeply , say , some of the emotional references listed by Marowitz , but Stanislavsky demands that they be simultaneously translated through technique into a form that touches an audience at its deepest level of feeling . |
| 7 | While ACORN 's most obvious application is in market analysis , advertising and direct marketing , CACI argues that it is equally relevant to the sales manager for setting equitable targets for different sales territories . |
| 8 | Tuesday comes and I 'm all set to head down when diaster strikes ( stupid computers they never do what you tell them to ) and the trip is cancelled . |
| 9 | Lexical variation of this type is widespread in Durham and is not restricted to items belonging to any particular grammatical class ; Kerswill reports that it is particularly salient as a sociolinguistic marker sensitive both to the age and social class of the speaker ; but unlike either CSPs or other phonological variables , it is affected very little by speech style . |
| 10 | Eadwig , who bore , or affected , a royal name , looks like a significant figure , and Florence says that he was eventually reconciled with Cnut . |
| 11 | Completely directionless and improvised , Shore acts like he 's just coming off some Quaalude-fuelled lost weekend . |
| 12 | So , while the GLC estimates that there are almost one million houses in London that are more than 70 years old and in need of modernisation , councils are having to give top priority to repairing more modern buildings . |
| 13 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 14 | Williams doubts whether he was really influenced by his teachers or contemporaries at the Slade . |
| 15 | ‘ And because of that application form , Matthew thinks that you 're just like me — that you 'll stretch the rules a bit to get what you want . |
| 16 | Tom adds that it is very important for young horses to have their teeth checked before they are bitted and broken ; racehorses usually have their first session at two years-old . |
| 17 | Beattie concludes that it is only during the hesitant phase of a speech cycle that the clause is a major unit of speech planning . |
| 18 | He says that he will not go to Maputo until he receives the money that the UN promised to him and to other party leaders to start up their election campaign ; the UN says that it is still waiting for the donors to deliver the money . |
| 19 | By uncovering the presuppositions of the sort of criticism typified by Picard 's approach , Barthes shows that they are both arbitrary and ideologically motivated . |
| 20 | T. Thistleton Dyer comments that it was once customary to inter a lamb beneath the church 's altar ; the kirkgrim or churchgrim , in the form of this lamb , would latterly appear in the pews to indicate a coming funeral . |
| 21 | After Sophy 's pathetic death Tom confesses that he was really her father , and Violet 's ghost is laid . |
| 22 | Most of us would probably start off growing pelargoniums in a soilless compost but Hazel reports that they 're actually much easier to grow well in a loam-based compost . |
| 23 | ‘ John was very good , ’ said Bob , who had told old Harry Stearns that he was very good in the first place . |
| 24 | Desperate to contact Molly , who is unable to see or hear him , Sam discovers that he is only able to communicate with a psychic named Oda Mae Brown ( Whoopee Goldberg ) , a charlatan astonished to discover her powers are authentic . |
| 25 | ‘ This JCR notes that there are already enough ‘ women ’ who look like men at Somerville , and could n't give a flying toss if they get any more . ’ |
| 26 | " Remember that I love you , " Philip whispers when we are nearly oh . |
| 27 | Indeed , Poulantzas suggests that it is precisely the relative autonomy of the bureaucracy as a specific social category from the ruling class which is so important , under certain conditions of capitalism , for the hegemony of the whole class . |
| 28 | The practical difficulties of nursing a sick relative can be very great , but Pitkeathley agrees that it is often the emotional upset of having to bath a previously fastidious mother , or pretend your father has spilt his tea when the bed is wet , or simply having to make all the decisions for a once strong parent , which cases the most upset . |
| 29 | However , the evidence on this has been vigorously contested , especially by Maureen Stone , who argues that ‘ no body of research has ever demonstrated unequivocally that the children of the working-class as a whole , poor children or black children in particular , suffer from poor self-image or self-esteem ’ ( Stone , 1981 , p. 8 ) , while Milner concludes that there are now higher measures on tests of black self-esteem than in earlier studies because of the rise of black political movements in both the USA and Britain which has fostered positive black self-images and consciousness ( Milner , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | Weightlessness apparently does no great harm , so President George Bush says that it is now time to send people to Mars . |