Example sentences of "[vb base] be [art] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between Jacques and his Master is founded on a tacit agreement that the roles they occupy are the reverse of what they appear to be , but when Jacques tries to articulate this he risks losing his power which depends on its going unacknowledged . |
| 2 | Mr Clinton occasionally lost his temper , but through all the flak he showed remarkable staying power , which his supporters say is a mark of his fitness to occupy the White House 's Oval Office . |
| 3 | The sufferer must know that what you say is the whole of what you believe and want to transmit . |
| 4 | Smokers are furious at what they say is an attack on their personal freedom . |
| 5 | ‘ What you want is no concern of ours . |
| 6 | ‘ The only reward I want is a baby of my own . |
| 7 | What you want is a charge on something that regularly recurs . |
| 8 | ‘ The want of the present moment is a new Foreign Office , and to supply that want is the extent of our ambition . ’ |
| 9 | This is yet another example of how the business most dealers attain is a tribute to their capacity for sounding convincing . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , ( 219 ) is the equivalent of " Postulate AB = CD " , which is to say that let is an instruction to anyone reading this sentence to conceive AB as equal to CD . |
| 11 | What we project is the essence of our politicians , the nature of their convictions . |
| 12 | These dishes merit being a course of their own , for their charms are worth savouring . |
| 13 | The nature of the work and the environment in which you operate is a matter for your choice , but few careers offer the variety of opportunity provided by the solicitors ' profession . |
| 14 | How vain I feel is an attempt for me with all my weight of immorality and worry and dull ( not bad ) health to sweeten you who are so pure and without care and of bright health . |
| 15 | Lady West was domineering , demanding , and critical , Honor being the butt of her discontent and ill-temper . |
| 16 | The words ‘ Pod gathered ’ tell us that the sentence which they interrupt is a report of something said to Pod , namely still part of Spiller 's explanation . |
| 17 | ‘ I have not eaten and I am in rags and all I ask is a share of your fire before I am turned out into the cold night again … |
| 18 | God , I love them all so much , I hate being the cause of their distress . |
| 19 | That has been our major worry and I think for us now to go away and just allow it to go ahead , twenty years on , without any improvements , without the link road and without improvements to Hill I think is an abdication of our duties and I really do think that . |
| 20 | The surgeon 's face appeared on a level with my own : ‘ We 've found a tumour in your spinal cord which we think is the cause of your troubles . ’ |
| 21 | The only thing you love is the workings of your own mind . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I know I 've been a trial to you ever since Mother died , and running away with Garry was n't the smartest thing I 've ever done , but at least I met Roman because I was foolish and I do n't think he 'll hold it against me , will he ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Because you 've been a part of it from the start . ’ |
| 24 | John Silver , you 've been a friend of mine , but for no longer . |
| 25 | I 've been a friend to thee ever since , have n't I , Midnight ? ’ |
| 26 | It pleased him to see the shock his words delivered , and before David could protest , he lied , ‘ You 've been a help to me since my old bones went crook , and I 'll see you get your dues when the time comes . |
| 27 | It was the only time in my life I 've been a pain to my family . |
| 28 | So it seems to me that those sociologists , and there 've been a lot of them , who have taken the view that Freud like some other social thinkers , like any of their kind , for example , was a , was simply a Hobbesian thinker , had n't really read their Freud , or at least they had n't read their Freud after about World War One . |
| 29 | In the Telegraph they 've got all the things we 've been a lot of them |
| 30 | So thank you GH for proving your worth time and again — I 've been a reader since my marriage 25 years ago ! |