Example sentences of "[prep] be [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , trying to analyse why she should want to see him again so badly , she realised that the only thing she could be positive of was that her wanting to see him again had nothing whatsoever to do with that infernal interview ! |
| 2 | ‘ All I am interested in is that our records sound good to my ears . |
| 3 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 4 | He would no sooner place his arm where he wanted it to be than his upper body was wracked by a spasm . |
| 5 | However , this was not to be since their drains were either late , abandoned , or non-existent , while promises of building sites were made and then had to be broken because of the absence of drains ! |
| 6 | The last possibility seems to be that our original conception of the rule amounted to the creation of a disposition to carry on the series in one way rather than another . |
| 7 | The answer I believe continues to be that our economic and monetary authorities have less of an appreciation than others of the lags in the economy in particular between changes in interest policy and business investment . |
| 8 | The other disadvantage has to be that your ferret must then be a line ferret , and it then suffers the disadvantage of having to pull an obstruction , albeit a small one , around any snag that exists within the burrow . |
| 9 | The testator 's intention once again appears to be that his daughter 's whole estate should devolve according to the rules of intestacy , and so end in her brother 's eager hands . |
| 10 | You 've had to be strong to survive — just as poor Nora had to be when your father died , and she was left on her own . ’ |
| 11 | The greater the isolation the greater the military 's aversion to civilian ways of life is likely to be and its willingness to attempt to supplant them . |
| 12 | Trade unions are only as strong as their membership allows them to be and their leadership can not be expected to perform miracles . |
| 13 | We just had to be or my centenary Open was going to be short-lived indeed ! |
| 14 | The first thing I would point to is that our training costs for last year averaged out at £5,100 per trainee . |
| 15 | What we have to hope for is that its control over the language and its position as an arbiter of the quality of that language are maintained . |
| 16 | Well that depends on whether you are actually doing it during an audit or doing it for other reasons , what they are looking for is that your system is getting better and that you have done the right things . |
| 17 | All Mr Landor and the other lodgers cared about was that their rooms should be kept clean and their food brought on time , and she was expert at both . |