Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though some ministers are plainly more embarrassed than Mrs Thatcher appeared to be , the Government believes that the opposition has produced no serious alternatives to its blunt deterrent policy . |
| 2 | However , the real test comes if North Korea refuses to be helped . |
| 3 | And if Marilyn Monroe wanted to be movies today , she 'd have to go on serious diet first . |
| 4 | If Mr Khan prefers to be called Mr Khan , do n't use his first name just because other residents are happy for you to use theirs . |
| 5 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 6 | If Mrs Smith prefers to be called Ivy and not Mrs Smith , call her Ivy . |
| 7 | ‘ Pray , sir , may I ask you , do you think that if St. Paul happened to be travelling with us and had passed the place where he was born , that he would have pointed out the fact to us ? ’ |
| 8 | Almost certainly the right forefinger , unless Gerry Boden happened to be a southpaw . |
| 9 | ‘ Because Meredith Williams happens to be male , ’ he said flatly . |
| 10 | William Tillyer , Maggi Hambling , Maurice Cockrill and Wendy Connolly at Bernard Jacobson ( to 20 February ) , large sculptures by Phillip King and William Tucker at MAAK ( to 9 February ) and new sand paintings by Michael Young at Turske-Hue-Williams ( to 13 March ) , the gallery 's final exhibition at its space in Old Bond Street before Michael Hue-Williams reverts to being a private dealer . |
| 11 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 12 | ‘ The misty-eyed view of grammar school education we her from such people as Kenneth Clarke has to be qualified , ’ said Rosen . |
| 13 | For Carol Australia proved to be the wonderful country of her dreams . |
| 14 | WHEN Norman Lamont wanted to be untied from the scandal of renting his house to a ‘ sex therapist ’ , he signed libel lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck 's firm for £240 an hour . |
| 15 | Why not , as Lord Donaldson seems to be suggesting , appoint them to Rural Boundaries Tribunals , a sort of bucolic Acas , with powers to sort out neighbours who have temporarily taken leave of their common sense . |
| 16 | We experienced a similar event in Scotland , when Skol Bandits started to be manufactured in East Kilbride . |
| 17 | But Roundhay 's chances were not helped when Barry Willis had to be helped off with a leg injury . |