Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've bought a bottle of whisky and I 'm planning to drink my way right through it . ’ |
| 2 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |
| 3 | I , I really feel two pound fifty is low for the quality of , of play that they 're seeing I mean other amateur groups not that we 're comparing ourselves , but they certainly charge more than us and quite honestly the end product on some of them is not up to our end product . |
| 4 | Unlike Mr Crosby , the Norwich manager did not have the groundswell of support when he was appointed . |
| 5 | Pre-empting an expected attack , Yeltsin praised the decision of the Fifth Congress [ see p. 38537 ] to grant him extra presidential powers , and warned of chaos if they were removed . |
| 6 | To conclude this argument , the maximum amount of luck that we are allowed to assume , before we reject a particular theory of the origin of life , has odds of one in N , where N is the number of suitable planets in the universe . |
| 7 | If this is not so , our estimate of the amount of luck that we are allowed to postulate must be reduced accordingly . |
| 8 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 9 | Even some county councils in southern England , strongholds of conservatism since they were formed in 1888 , have slipped into the ‘ hung ’ category . |
| 10 | That 's why I feel a certain amount of responsibility when I 'm writing . |
| 11 | Faces reddened at the Ministry of Defence when it was revealed that a thief had snatched top-secret documents about the Gulf from an unlocked car on December 17th . |
| 12 | If he could prove that it had too much give in it he would at least have a line of defence if he was summoned to court . |
| 13 | When we are talking about the end of privilege and we are talking about the future and training , we must remember that over half the population are hard done by . |
| 14 | According to the kind of constructivism that I am espousing , the holism of the mental is logically and developmentally dependent upon the holism of directed action . |
| 15 | Erm , Chair , this is the Joint Staffing Watch for September ninety-three , and its mandatory on the County Council , that it 's presented to the committee , er , within a period of preparation as it is issued to the media . |
| 16 | For the sort of interaction that we are referring to here is not the planned smashing of things . |
| 17 | The experience of faith as it is lived by another people , another culture ; the enjoyment of celebrating fiestas ( and that includes the liturgy and the party afterwards ) with the people ; the experience of living amongst a people who never give up the struggle whatever happens and so challenge my own pettiness ; the graciousness of so many of them and the great welcome they gave us . |
| 18 | We do the shopping and of course once you 're laden with your shopping — it 's necessary to get a taxi back home . |
| 19 | They feel you have to endure great anxiety and suffer a lot and of course while you 're doing that , you do n't get the work done . ’ |
| 20 | Once you have conditioned barbel to feed ravenously they are ridiculously easy to catch , assuming of course that you are using tackle which is adequate enough to handle these tremendously hard-fighting fish . |
| 21 | Of course although we 're talking about dying and nobody wants to think about dying let's remind ourselves it 's the only certainty in this life . |
| 22 | R.B. And of course where I was sat you see you were waving your hands through the air and I noticed it … |
| 23 | That may be of course because they were denied the Liberal Democrats panacea for everything namely erm proportional representation . |
| 24 | Um now of course when they 're talking about things like physiological responses , when they 're talking about things like having orgasms and the like , erm this is on the part of the victims , it 's not too difficult to detach these physiological responses from pleasure . |
| 25 | Erm s that 's my general s there 's no doubt that there are a great deal of activities there as always of course when one is spending a lot of new money quite rapidly , one has to monitor it very carefully to make sure that it 's being effectively spent , and I 'm sure the director and this committee will continue to do that . |
| 26 | As erm as a doctor , Bill , I have ingrained on my heart Aneurin Bevan 's words when the National Health Service was introduced in this country by the post-war Labour government , against the wishes of my colleagues , and he commented that he would erm cross our palms with silver , and he did that very successfully , with the result that he stifled a lot of opposition amongst some very powerful people , and erm of course when you 're trying to introduce a new scheme such as this and you 're terribly keen that erm it should take off and be successful , you do , of course , cross palms with silver . |
| 27 | We 've been told that er everything 's done in , in the relation to the trustee but of course when you 're talking about massive sums of one point seven billion , our members er who are seventy five/eighty olds who suffered the problem of the inflatory years , their pensions have n't kept , kept pace with the with the people that are retiring now . |
| 28 | And of course when you 're playing a lead role , everybody 's very careful that your make-up looks right and they come and powder your face and brush your hair before every shot . |
| 29 | Of course when he was living with Beatrice — and he painted her at least fourteen times — he could resume his sittings more or less at will . |
| 30 | And of course when he was coming home in the middle of the night from afternoons , biking it and the one night they came he was coming home you know the finger post at Pelsall ? |