Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [noun] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 2 | And they are gulls they are invisible they are human |
| 3 | and he 's Ron you 're going to experience a lot of things that you 're not going be happy about he says but I 'll let you find out for yourself . |
| 4 | On the contrary he strode in , rubbing his hands and making it clear that he , too , would like a piece of venison , and he being Bodo it was not really possible to refuse him . |
| 5 | the opposite way and it 's K it 's sort of the rate at which the exc |
| 6 | You know , water is wet and , even when you change it into , and you freeze it , you know , you hold the ice it still is wet when you heat it up and it 's steam it 's still wet ! |
| 7 | Let's face it , she 's a very attractive girl and it 's time she was married . ’ |
| 8 | Her Christmas show proved she has not lost her touch and it 's time she was fully acknowledged as the comic genius she is . |
| 9 | He began , ‘ You have been in the House fifteen years and it 's time you were promoted … and I now want you to go to the Board of Education . |
| 10 | There are twins at the bottom of the family and it 's Tristram who 's in trouble . |
| 11 | Ironically Leicester are heading for the top using Brian Clough 's style of passing football and it 's Forest who are reverting to more of the long ball game . |
| 12 | Mr Pincher , though , is only the ghost writer and it 's Dido who 's grabbing the headlines . |
| 13 | The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation . |
| 14 | In 1983 gas , coal and nuclear power accounted for 16% , 9% and 1% respectively of energy demand and it is gas which is establishing itself as the most significant oil alternative . |
| 15 | And it is HarperCollins which is publishing the Collins Cobuild Concordance Samplers . |
| 16 | ‘ I booked lunch at the château and it is time we were off . ’ |
| 17 | He lost the leadership of Leeds to Ellery Hanley and it was Hanley who was made skipper of Great Britain in Australia this summer . |
| 18 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 19 | The game was being played at furious pace and it was Richardson who was put to the test when he dived to turn round a long drive from Darlington in the thirty eighth minute . |
| 20 | The Judge said the gang may have been in a state of panic , but the police were unarmed and it was miracle they were n't seriously injured . |
| 21 | And it was Clay he 's dancing through here dancing through there and dancing back dancing back . |
| 22 | In general terms the narrow range of investments are fairly , very safe and secure investments , but they are ones which are less likely to secure higher returns but of course also , less likely to secure risks of low returns . |
| 23 | His past is made up very largely of futures — plans , expectations , anxieties , fantasies , dreams and visions — but they are futures which are closed : every forward thought is stalked by death . |
| 24 | The essence of Hollywood was that it used actors who became real before the camera ; they were not ciphers there to be manipulated by an all-powerful director but they were actors who were able to combine natural qualities and varied skills and techniques in such a way as to create an on-camera identity . |
| 25 | But it is Jonny who is the driving force , the black leather jacket may have gone , the cowboy boots were nowhere to be seen yesterday , but the earring is still in place and so is the intensity which stunned Cambridge two years ago . |
| 26 | But it is women who are more likely to buy things . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , the more snow , the more avalanches come down on to roads and into the valleys , but it is skiers who are normally most at risk . ’ |
| 28 | If musical politics now involves a constantly shifting ‘ war of position ’ , Adorno helps us to understand the enemy , but it is Benjamin who is more able to offer the tools to carry on the struggle . |
| 29 | True , Jack is more famous , but it is Jet who is indelibly linked with the instrument . |
| 30 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |