Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Mawhinney acknowledges that a majority nudging 10,000 was ‘ never natural ’ for such a community but is confident of hanging on . |
| 2 | My sister goes That 's right ? |
| 3 | Resident partner at the salon Ian Watts said the decision to go smoke-free was prompted by concerns for the health of his staff and clients . |
| 4 | Fun Ski and the travel company Made to Measure Holidays Ltd are in partnership , therefore all enquiries and booking can be made through Made to Measure , telephone 0243 533333 . |
| 5 | Whereas previously , however , by deferring their pension individuals could boost the amount above their two-thirds earnings , under a 1989 Budget change this is no longer allowed . |
| 6 | Babur thinks this is completely not the point . |
| 7 | Computer Shops Ltd is not responsible for Ti'ko machines . |
| 8 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 9 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
| 10 | It was not the decision to jump that was unreasonable , it was placing himself unnecessarily in a position where he might be confronted with such an emergency . |
| 11 | On the other hand , a sudden large weight gain that 's not from eating good food , but from retaining large amounts of fluid , could be a sign of pre-eclampsia , a condition that restricts the blood flow to the placenta . |
| 12 | well it 's the other side has all been shaved off ! |
| 13 | The LOB collocation dictionary makes a contribution to the recognition process that is significant to the 95% confidence level . |
| 14 | A murmur rose that was quickly silenced . |
| 15 | Her chin rose , but her attempt to pull free was easily thwarted . |
| 16 | Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard . |
| 17 | If your child 's a restless sleeper and constantly loses his duvet , invest in a Tidibed , a duvet cover that 's partly attached to a fitted sheet so the duvet will stay in place . |
| 18 | A judge interviewed in the programme says this is inviting juveniles to commit crime . |
| 19 | Ransford says this is unlikely to work in areas where demand outstrips supply . |
| 20 | Only when independence under majority rule seemed assured were statutory corporations established by the departing British in an attempt to distance broadcasting from the newly Africanized political and governmental arena . |
| 21 | In the drawing shown this is not the case . |
| 22 | Some families deliberately create pet names for their children — research shows this is a middle and upper- class phenomenon , whereas working-class families tend to call the child by its full birth name . |
| 23 | A witness reckoned both were write-offs . |
| 24 | courses in Music and Drama , which as a condition of the College remaining separate are arranged in conjunction with the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education , are the only courses in Wales designated to train teachers of these subjects for secondary schools . |
| 25 | The design will often slowly on the fabric face that is away from the patterning bed . |
| 26 | One way of making a smallish bedroom look larger is to build in a wardrobe with mirrored doors . |
| 27 | Nothing less than clear and unambiguous advice to obtain independent legal advice would probably be necessary to avoid the restraining hand of equity ; unless the attempt to give this was frustrated by circumstances beyond the reasonable anticipation of the creditor : see Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 28 | For instance a large chunk of those voters who did declare firmly their intention to vote Labour were still prepared to recognise that Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP for the town since his election victory in 1983 . |
| 29 | A guarantee that all rents raised in West Lothian will be spent in West Lothian and a rent guarantee that is linked to inflation . |
| 30 | When the UK renewable energy programme began this was regarded as being the most promising alternative method of electricity generation and eight separate teams worked on different methods . |