Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |
| 2 | Conversely , music that is ill-chosen or ill-performed can actually be a hindrance to commitment , as can a service or preaching which is poor . |
| 3 | I hope people wo n't intrude or think he 's odd . |
| 4 | The detector is a channel electron multiplier or channelplate which is sensitive to ions and fast neutrals . |
| 5 | Familiarity with the case , product or service you are discussing may make you blinkered . |
| 6 | But to be of any real use giveaways must be both useful or decorative and relevant to the product or service you are promoting . |
| 7 | Both Britomart and Radigund forgot their skill in battle ( whether they also forgot their feminine nature or revealed it is more difficult to determine ) . |
| 8 | Writer is ignorant or stupid or thinks he 's clever . |
| 9 | Some bastard 's rumbled I 'm here — or thinks I am . |
| 10 | The connections between gender and class were apparent enough in the early modern period , and if the transvestite was a pervert or invert it was precisely in the pre-sexological senses of these ideas ; whether actually or only in the paranoid imagination of the dominant , she was regarded as upsetting the entire social domain , even when her sexual ‘ orientation ’ was not the issue . |
| 11 | They ride out by companies , whether it 's hunting or hawking there are always enough of them to make for safety . |
| 12 | So we never had time to think or enjoy what was going up . |
| 13 | For the widowed or divorced there was no difference between those with and without children nor any significant trend with the number of children . |
| 14 | To maximise your income — which may mean , for example , exploring the possibility of a part time job , or checking you are getting all the state benefits to which you are entitled . |
| 15 | The four basic steps on the road back to financial health are : To Maximise your income — which may mean , for example , exploring the possibility of a part time job , or checking you are getting all the state benefits to which you are entitled . |
| 16 | I do n't want to complain about our marriage or suggest I 'm dissatisfied , but I just do wish that once in a while you 'd tell me , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 17 | We tell them to be quiet because we want them to look at television , or say it 's too wet to go out for a walk when they are wanting to wear their new wellies . |
| 18 | As enforcement of water pollution regulations places demands on polluters of time , manpower , and money , one of the basic premises informing routine pollution control work is the assumption that every discharger has a substantial economic incentive to evade enforcement : ‘ Everyone will try to get out of it , or say it was n't them . ’ |
| 19 | Or say there 's more than one person working on a project . |
| 20 | There has recently been a sharp rise of interest in artificial intelligence — very broadly the attempt to write computer programs to work at a human level of intelligence and performance in such tasks as identifying and recognising objects in cluttered environments , understanding ordinary human languages such as English , or diagnosing what is wrong in cases of human illness or machine failure . |
| 21 | I have never changed my view that whatever colour or race we are there is this common humanity . " |
| 22 | More exactly , since these five writers differ not only from other New Critics but also among themselves , I shall for the sake of clarity and simplicity concentrate on two texts , Wimsatt 's The Verbal Icon and Brooks 's The Well-Wrought Urn , referring to the work of the others only insofar as it corroborates or develops what is said there . |
| 23 | Cashiers ' keys which identify the cashier or shift which is printed on the folios ( bills ) vouchers and audit journals . |
| 24 | In many Endopterygote insects , more especially those whose eggs are deposited within plant tissue or in other concealed situations , the distal abdominal segments become attenuated and often telescoped to form a retractile tube or oviscapt which is used as an ovipositor . |
| 25 | With regard to safety , if a product is misused or overheated it is better if unpleasant or acrid fumes are given off rather than sweet smelling , pleasant fumes that may be toxic |
| 26 | Though he never idealised it or pretended it was anything but ‘ the rude rags of nature ’ , he saw things in it to which Crabbe was completely blind or hostile , and he felt their loss when change and ‘ improvement ’ came : |
| 27 | I wondered what would happen if I ignored the call or pretended it was n't me , but I had a strong feeling that they knew it was me . |
| 28 | Or has nothing been said about that yet ? |
| 29 | Do you disagree with any of the points raised or has anything been left out ? |
| 30 | Instead he said , ‘ Is there , or has there been , a gun in the house ? ’ |