Example sentences of "[prep] be [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she just been over some house in Trafford Road and er , I think she left some , some by there by what she said or to who , who it were , but it must of been them who put them onto us , because she come in |
| 2 | These difficulties have resolved themselves into the question : is the comment " fair " , in the sense of being one which the commentator could honestly express , on the strength of such of his facts as can be proved to be true ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm on the verge of being one meself , child , if I had the name of that person who gave Lizzy the drugs I 'd scalp the face off them . ’ |
| 4 | Possibly he 'd reached the stage of being one who would merely use them for his own ends — especially his sex life . |
| 5 | But I of course have the advantage of being one who condemns that degree of maladministration whether it applies in the democratic sector or in the quango sector and unfortunately , unfortunately despite all the corruption , I I 'll give way to the honourable gentleman if I could just er finish the point I 'm making , unfortunately despite all the corruption and all the mismanagement and all the fraud for which the Secretary of State is personally responsible as Secretary of State . |
| 6 | She was suddenly in alien territory again , being accused of being somebody she could never be , except on stage with a script in her hand . |
| 7 | As for these murders , as you name them , the first one only , that of the child , was done in malice , when I had no knowledge of those states of being which you , not I , can enjoy — to wit , life and death . |
| 8 | The first is the role of women as housewives and mothers and the devaluation of domestic work , how this creates a self-image of being someone who has to be provided for . |
| 9 | The ones he was proudest of were what he called aberrations ! |
| 10 | There 's talk of is it my box ? |
| 11 | Because as soon as the national agreement come into being our our of the meetings dropped down dropped down dropped down until there were very few attending . |
| 12 | The trouble with being what you were was that although your judgement was impeccable , the rest of the world just did n't always know it . |
| 13 | Our identity is tied up with being someone who never achieves these goals . |
| 14 | Erm we do n't know the details of the consideration that has been given by the authorities , what we are concerned with is what they are now proposing . |
| 15 | The opportunity we now presented them with was one I am convinced they would gladly at that time have done without ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 153 ) . |
| 16 | Do n't fit got ta be something I something A |
| 17 | So far from being something which was realized ( where it has been realized ) when universal suffrage was finally achieved , that very substantial and important achievement might reasonably be regarded as only the first step on the road to the creation of a fully democratic society . |
| 18 | After a while skateboarding changed from being something you do to being everything . |
| 19 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 20 | From being someone who simply happened to fail his first driving test , he becomes a person who ‘ always goes to pieces when sitting beside the examiner ’ . |
| 21 | So clearly in this period the U K holidaymaker moved from being someone who primarily took their holidays in the U K very definitely into someone who was now taking their holidays abroad . |
| 22 | In being who he was : that was his vocation , and discovering how far he could go and even , fatally , what he could get away with . |
| 23 | But since we have failed to produce a clear notion of context , what we include in context is likely to be whatever we exclude from semantics in the way of meaning relations . |
| 24 | ‘ I was asking you to be whatever you wished to be , cara . ’ |
| 25 | Erm , I wear make up as a mask basically gives me confidence and it stops me having to be myself which I feel is n't good enough for the public |
| 26 | And why , why did it have to be him who found her ? |
| 27 | They 're born , they grow old , and they die like us ; and when they 're old , they can turn foolish , and even when they 're young , they can deceive you , and they 're actually capable of telling lies , pretending to be what they are n't : to be sick when they 're healthy , and healthy when they 're sick . ’ |
| 28 | It is like flour in cooking : no recipe consists of flour alone , though many utterly depend on it to be what they are . |
| 29 | Since one of the skills acquired on this course is an inability to express what you are , Mr Eyre contends , the English become adept at ‘ pretending to be what they are n't ’ . |
| 30 | When made with the addition of stock they Jose all character and cease to be what they were intended to be . |