Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know before you 're sure whether it 's cos you know if you get into probation you see , that 's quite a specialized area and , and it may I think actually it might be it 's quite difficult to get into . |
| 2 | Some of the items are fine as they are but are not given unconditional approval because they should only be eaten in moderation . |
| 3 | I 'm sixty-one as it is and , truth told , I could n't work for one of them . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm happy where I am and I get called every couple of weeks which suits me . ’ |
| 5 | The ratio of bankers ' balances to deposit liabilities will be smaller than it was and if , as we have now said several times , the original ratio was a desired one , then banks will have to make further adjustments to their balance sheets to restore the ratio . |
| 6 | There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward . |
| 7 | Hazel realized that until they were rested they would all be safer where they were than stumbling along in the open , with no strength left to run from an enemy . |
| 8 | The other is that I do n't wish any harm to come to Miss Coleman and she may be safer where she is until they say she 's free to go . ’ |
| 9 | With my mind working with the speed of desperation , it seemed I would be safest where I was till I could break away in the direction of the bus station . |
| 10 | You are stronger than you were and with summer arriving you will once more pick up . |
| 11 | She could not restrain a flash of pride in her physical fitness ; all the nurses were smaller than she was and , although they were prettier , she felt her dignity and certainty returning . |
| 12 | For example , in March 1955 at the time of Ashby 's Will Harvey Lecture , there were only five tutor-organisers employed by the Eastern District , those in Essex , Fenland , Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk : the posts in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire were vacant and there were as yet no tutor-organisers with special responsibilities over several counties . |
| 13 | Most staff are untrained and there is as yet little evidence that training makes much difference to the quality of care ( Sinclair , 1988b , p. 270 ) . |
| 14 | And allowing someone to call you by your first name ( 'Please , call me John' ) has the sub-text : ‘ I am higher-status than you are and so can grant you this permission . ’ |
| 15 | We do not yet know if these deductions are correct since they are as yet untested . |
| 16 | On the other hand , what you 'll get is this continual lying going on about kidding everybody that everything 's better than it is and , of course , the eternal gratitude . |
| 17 | I know he 's happy where he is but I miss him . |
| 18 | He 's older than she is and probably a lot more experienced . |
| 19 | Er , yes I agree the funding that we provide at the moment , seventeen thousand I think , er i in in we 've already committed erm for for wh for the coming year , is small but it is because of the example , because er people who wish to m er erm promote cycling schemes and cycling policies within South Cambridgeshire , within the county council can identify the example that we have been setting that hypothecated budget aimed at cycling have been er directed this way and have been spent amicably , constructively , sensibly by cycling working parties . |
| 20 | it 's clean as he was when he was new . |
| 21 | I know she 's disappointed as you are but may I coming in her place thank Nicholas Hinton and his colleagues for having me at the Barbican at this important annual public meeting . |
| 22 | Liza was unaware that she was but the female counterpart of her father ; for Harriet , resolute and loyal to the last , had managed to keep any knowledge of Tom 's countless affairs from his daughter . |
| 23 | I did n't have a boyfriend , and I was convinced that it was because I was too fat . |
| 24 | ‘ I must say that our discussion was such that it was as if we have known each other for many , many years . ’ |
| 25 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 26 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |