Example sentences of "[det] be [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of this is of his own making . |
| 2 | In many cases this is with our industrial competitors . |
| 3 | ‘ This is for her own safety , as much as anything else . |
| 4 | Gushing statements to the young person about how this is for their own good , or ‘ this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you ’ ( attitudes which are still prevalent ) are quite unhelpful , virtually damaging in fact . |
| 5 | No , this is , you 're thinking this is for your front room now your carpet ? |
| 6 | What I 'm saying to you is that , that we actually need to find additional money for this , because this is over our budgeted amount if we are to proceed , and I , the clerk is suggesting to us that we do proceed , because he 's concerned on our behalfs . |
| 7 | I think this is about our physical boundaries again , as it was in Alison 's story , showing how fragile the self-image of girls can be , how easily invaded by others — and also , how difficult it is to like your body if it is curvaceous , if you are naturally fleshy , fat , large-breasted or pear-shaped , as many of us are . |
| 8 | This is despite their repeated claims that the act , which tightens up rules on the safety inspection of large dams and calls for a national register of dams , was necessary . |
| 9 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 10 | The FIRST stage in any good export is to find out as much as possible about the foreign market being considered and the most economic way of doing this is from your own base — ‘ the desk research ’ . |
| 11 | In many ways this is like our own fear of snakes . |
| 12 | But I think this is like his other symptoms . |
| 13 | What with piles of ironing ( this was during my disorganised period ) , mountains of books ( I refuse to be parted from them ) , and various bric-a-brac , my flat always looked like a junkyard . |
| 14 | This was on my 34th birthday last March . |
| 15 | If one looks at the speeches , reads the pamphlets and studies the discussions of Councils one sees that an aggressive political tone was never far from the surface and this was before their wholesale involvement in the debates over the 1902 Education Act . |
| 16 | This was in your original phone call to me at home in Oxford , on the evening of March 6th . |
| 17 | This was in my earlier days when carrying out general duties ashore . |
| 18 | It did n't help her at all to accept that this was by her own wish . |
| 19 | ( There are other reasons why complicated molecules based on silicon are less likely to occur , but these are beyond our present scope . ) |
| 20 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 21 | A significant proportion of the population seems to eat less on Mondays ; not so many are on their new diet by the time Sunday comes around . |
| 22 | Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests . |
| 23 | The first possibility is that the bureaucracy is responsive primarily to itself — that is to its own interests and priorities . |
| 24 | Some formidable and even frightening features of the familiar landscape have disappeared , and obviously that is to our great content , but elsewhere there are new commotions and new uncertainties , and I should also like to deal with some of those . |
| 25 | Advantageous as that is in its proper place it would be disastrous if such numbers turned up as eigenvalues . |
| 26 | But that is in my own time and what I do in my own time is up to me . ’ |
| 27 | I 'll put a I 'll put a circle round the no and there that 's for my own benefit . |
| 28 | that 's for your personal development and er |
| 29 | That 's for your whole head . |
| 30 | And that 's on your first night ! |