Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick I 'm I 'm gon na take a flier with you all right so we can save it . |
| 2 | Well they had to get their own machines out an there 's one old boy had a stitcher , a be he looked ninety , he probably was n't , and er he was chu , it was just after lunch and he was chewing apple and old Jo , I was working with so you know , Jim someone 's I said look at the silly old B , I said ! |
| 3 | THE rave new ‘ interactive ’ movie I 'm Your Man is coming to Britain . |
| 4 | mhm It 's interesting , because the two schools I 'm I 'm the governor , as all County Councillors are , of schools , and of two primary schools , and the special needs advisory teachers were the things that were at the top of the list to be saved by both my schools . |
| 5 | and then out of the side which is which is nice . |
| 6 | If he has used it to swell his bank balance , it will be presumed that , in drawing on that balance , he has drawn out his own money before touching trust money ; if he has made an investment with trust money — even an investment which is itself a breach of trust — that investment is still trust property , to which the trustees ’ creditors have no claim . |
| 7 | Erm a policy statement like roads to the future which is what reminded me of it . |
| 8 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 9 | When a woman has a discharge of blood which is her regular discharge from her body , she shall be in her impurity for seven days , and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening . |
| 10 | She accepts that she then was confused , she did n't know what to do erm she did n't think there was any point in getting out of the car which is what sh she should of done , she should of tried to make some enquiries about the child er , but she er , she looked around shrugged her shoulders and and then carried on her journey because she did n't think there was anything else she could do about it . |
| 11 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 12 | I was relatively successful and after three or four months moved into the Criminal Investigation Department , as a detective constable , pursuing local villains for the thefts , shopbreakings , burglaries , and petty frauds which were our bread and butter . |
| 13 | The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology . |
| 14 | Christians had a sacred history : in the fourth century they acquired a sacred geography which was its spatial reflection . |
| 15 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 16 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 17 | Such questions can not be settled by resort to competing formulations of some supposed pre-existing legal rule : it is the scope and content of that rule which is itself in issue . |
| 18 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 19 | And the reverberations of that shared theory may last for a very long time , long after the institution which was its natural concomitant in day-to-day social practices has gone . |
| 20 | It may be that bargaining structures and processes can be more usefully approached within a broader framework as secondary , or intervening , variables which are themselves dependent upon more basic socio-economic forces within modern industrial societies ( Shalev , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | Pete got some cleaning up done last Saturday which is you know , round the er screen , that area 's all been cleaned up but obviously he ai n't got enough blokes to get the lot done . |
| 22 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 23 | ‘ I met new clients which is what I went for . ’ |
| 24 | He had built , or at least started to build , a public ( in the Kierkegaardian sense : ‘ a gigantic something , an abstract and deserted void which is everything and nothing ’ ) and he was determined to stay true to it ; recognising that publicity is the lifeblood of an author . |
| 25 | Er we 're now doing this partnership which was what today was about , about the new generation spindle . |
| 26 | If the privatisation programme were to cease , it would have a damaging effect on the inflow of funds , as would proposals to renationalise parts of industry which is what the Labour party proposes . |
| 27 | Synthetic data which are themselves a GIS-derived product may be the most difficult to deal with . |
| 28 | If the courts regard the allegation as relating to a statutory condition which is itself jurisdictional then they will receive affidavit evidence to show that the condition is not met . |
| 29 | The geometrical part of that framework is demonstrable because , says Hobbes , the geometrical shapes which are its objects can be created by ourselves . |
| 30 | She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's . |