Example sentences of "[prep] be [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you believe , well what are we looking at here , page seventy eight , it 's been produced by er for are we looking at the first brochure , or an updated version or what ? |
| 2 | The dog-whelks first bred three years after being themselves laid as eggs , but at different sizes according to their habitat-16 mm at Purcell 's Cove and 20 mm at Laurencetown ( a discrepancy that Hughes ascribed to the differential availability of prey-but see above and p. 320 ) . |
| 3 | So if we 're we 're if we get if we get past that erm er that that point of am I going to take a flier . |
| 4 | they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join |
| 5 | Well it must of been we have n't had any nice weather for ages |
| 6 | Erm , and feeling there was it must of been he said today I 've cooked Sunday lunch and erm , she ate half of it and I thought then she finished it . |
| 7 | It is an impressive body of photographic , graphic and specially commissioned work which has been put together by former NME photographer Adrian Boot and editors Neil Storey and Rob Partridge , with encouragement from Island boss Chris Blackwell and the head of Are You Experienced Ltd , Alan Douglas . |
| 8 | Just sort of Are you going to football today dad ? |
| 9 | For example , ( 43 ) is matched by ( 45 ) , not ( 44 ) : ( 43 ) frogs croak ( 44 ) croak frogs ( 45 ) croaking frogs Adjectives in English are also distinguished from verbs by the separate peculiarity ( already implied ) that in assignment they must be accompanied by a form of be which carries tense , and which more importantly helps to mark the relation . |
| 10 | He thought that the inhabitants of Chios , who according to tradition had introduced slavery into Greece , deserved the punishment of being themselves enslaved , which Mithridates had inflicted on them for quite different reasons ( fr. 38 Jacoby ) . |
| 11 | In thinking about the terms " active " and " contemplative " in medieval devotional writing , however , it is important not to confuse their use to designate outward life-styles with their designation of modes of being which enable argument about the purposes of man 's existence . |
| 12 | They convey a double sense of experience : that of a linear process ; but also of an eternal state of being which informs and transcends it , and which is accessed within the structure of human nature , itself programmed with a restlessness that can be assuaged by nothing less . |
| 13 | But there is in us another level of being which lies deeper than knowing or acting , and it is at that further depth that the genuine religious impulse arises and lives . |
| 14 | Only in School G was there evidence of study skills genuinely permeating the lower-school curriculum , though again this initiative was very much identified with a dynamic coordinator of IS who has since left the school . |
| 15 | The re the essence of was they made more or less the customers ' requirements . |
| 16 | The next thing Paige became aware of was someone trying to cut her in two . |
| 17 | Erm but f what it moved towards was them recognizing that they could sort out their own problems , and perhaps sort out each others . |
| 18 | Racing manager Jimmy Nunn said of the Northern Ireland bred racer : ‘ She looks like being one to watch . |
| 19 | I could n't agree more with Are we breeding the Lolita generation ? |
| 20 | He never told me much , but some of the people he mixed with were nothing to do with show business , or any other kind of business . |
| 21 | A good one to start with is what happens when the time is equal to zero ? |
| 22 | ‘ What I would n't agree with is someone coming over here to play and picking up a cheap cap . |
| 23 | Well actually I feel a lot happier if you say that , because can I actually one of the first questions you asked , which I never got a chance to answer , though Terry did , was which what sort of criteria one would use to say that a Prime Minister 's good and erm I was sort of thinking of that as Terry was answering and I think the thing I came up with is you want somebody who represents , or is sensitive to at least , a very wide swathe of views across the population , but also someone who 's intelligent and caring enough to take into account the minority views , and you want somebody who 's aim is to make most of the people happy most of the time , sort of thing , erm but who 's also prepared to take unpopular steps erm if he believes it 's necessary . |
| 24 | They 've come from next door got ta be they 've bor , burrowed down a ha , another |
| 25 | It 's got ta be something telling that bell to ring |
| 26 | Mr did n't wan na work tomorrow really though cos I 've got ta be I 've got ta meet that new dentist tomorrow but obviously I owe him . |
| 27 | erm , the one thing that I thought was under person who is who is talking he 's got ta be I think he 's got ta be firm so that the person understands that erm that what is required but he 's also got ta be fair at the same time has n't he ? |
| 28 | Signs of this were evident at Christmas and , happily , at Easter , too , Not only did Channel 4 go out in peak time with Granada 's king Lear on Easter Monday but also had the bright idea of showing us on that day , in Are you having any fun ? archive material demonstrating how the British had determinedly convinced themselves they were enjoying themselves as long ago as 1896 and as lately as 1964 . |
| 29 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 30 | What he was particularly interested in is he 's been taught the Yamaha method in fact |