Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handy argues that an efficient organisational design for the future is the " shamrock " organisation : one leaf of the shamrock contains the " core " professional staff , those with the crucial knowledge on which the organisation depends , from whom much is expected and to whom much is given . |
| 2 | Handy argues that an efficient organisational design for the future is the " shamrock " organisation : one leaf of the shamrock contains the " core " professional staff , those with the crucial knowledge on which the organisation depends , from whom much is expected and to whom much is given . |
| 3 | The roofs of the tents and pavilions collected water until the weigh t burst the material and everyone inside was drenched . |
| 4 | If the universe was created with bricks and mortar and free-will , then someone somewhere is bound to drop a free-falling brick on someone else 's toe . |
| 5 | Until September 23rd the Sun passing through you opposite sign of Virgo is almost certain to create disagreements in matrimonial or partnership affairs , and someone somewhere is bound to spotlight your failures or indiscretions . |
| 6 | I would have savoured this piece of news with greater relish had I not been booked on BA724 to Geneva at 0845 that morning . |
| 7 | Using my 7 × 50 binoculars I was able to locate it at once , though I would not have had the slightest hope of finding it had I not been told exactly where it was . |
| 8 | How should I not be discovered ? |
| 9 | Maybe not , but in a world of feminists demanding freedom of speech and equality everywhere possible , Why should I not be allowed to present my view ? |
| 10 | ‘ So why am I not being compensated for loss of office according to British scales ? , |
| 11 | Eventually I was able to convince my senior officers that anthropology was one of the social sciences , perhaps only because I somewhat sardonically returned a memo which asked ‘ why , if anthropology is not approved , have I just been allowed to read the subject on a Bramshill Scholarship , on full pay and allowances ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So I just been told . |
| 13 | Frank Kelly thanked us for our efforts and I somehow was volunteered again to make the reply . |
| 14 | I once was engaged to conduct a concert in Mannheim and the pianist who had been engaged was Frederic Lamond . |
| 15 | The 16-year-old whilst wiping the tears streaming from his eyes asked : ‘ Will I ever be allowed to see my father again ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Tell me , Uncle Orrin , shall I always be regarded as my father 's heiress , never seen for what I truly am ? ’ |
| 17 | I always was attacked on the grounds that the world I wrote about did n't exist and it 's only in the last five to ten years here in Ireland , that my work is seen to be actually true . |
| 18 | The second I saw was an Alan Ayckbourn , considering that I was only six at the time and I did n't understand some of it I still was enthralled with the acting and enjoyed it almost as equally enough as the panto . |
| 19 | ‘ It was 5.30 in the morning and I tried to reason with Otto by saying how could I possibly be drunk at that time . |
| 20 | In 1816 he was admitted to Lincoln 's Inn but there is no record of his ever being called to the bar . |
| 21 | They my also be approximated by the use of composites theory combined with experimentally determined orientation functions ( Ward 1975 ; Seferis et al. |
| 22 | The effect of this constraint on the relationship between the models in Figure 7.29 results in the same rotations imposed on model I also being imposed on model 2 . |
| 23 | A common response from farmers left out of these schemes is : ‘ Why ca n't I also be paid for providing environmental services ? |
| 24 | I had a spell off instruction and became the assistant to the chief ground instructor and , in that capacity , I also was instructed to carry out preliminary inspections of crashes that happened at Kinloss during that period , and a most unpleasant task this was . |
| 25 | But I also was injured 'cos her friends were hittin' me . |
| 26 | I really am fed up with other people 's old hat views about abseiling . |
| 27 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 28 | If I became part of his fantasy landscape a certain amount of security , great pleasure even , was possible , at the cost of feeling split and unknowable afterwards and unsure whether I as I felt I really was had experienced anything . |
| 29 | MAY I please be allowed to comment on just one of the points in Mr Prytherch 's letter ( WCM July ) , written in refutation of mine of last December . |
| 30 | She wore a dark two-piece suit and a pert little hat with a feather that set it off well and I immediately was drawn to her . |