Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time we used to fight from then on , I used to pretend I was Johnson and the other kid used to say he was Sullivan or somebody . ’ |
| 2 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 3 | The difficulty is to know which are species . |
| 4 | It was almost impossible to know which were coopers and carpenters and which smiths . |
| 5 | This is the second survey commissioned by The Economist to discover which are Britain 's most admired companies ; the first was published in September 1989 . |
| 6 | They need to know who 's game by August 3 . |
| 7 | To date , there is no test to discover who are carriers of A-T . |
| 8 | Banderas plays the innocent , but he 's savvy enough to know there 's gold in them there coat-tails . |
| 9 | They seemed to know there was cash on the premises and threatened him with a knife . |
| 10 | Perhaps we just have to accept it is God 's will that the unorthodox individual is doomed to years of frustration , ridicule and failure in order to act out his role in the scheme of things , until his day arrives and mankind is ready to receive his message . |
| 11 | Manchester airport has a planning application in already to increase it 's capacity from twelve to thirty million passengers per annum by the year two thousand and five . |
| 12 | In order to increase it 's market share and to build exciting long term business prospects it was quickly realised that Noble Metals would have to provide more value to it 's customers that their competitors . |
| 13 | A new town plans to increase it 's population by fifty percent during the next five years . |
| 14 | That 's the of con of considerable concern , and it will mean possibly that faith er farm workers who rely on overtime to increase it 's wages will will suffer as a result . |
| 15 | Improving the security of your home wo n't do much to increase it 's value — but it may prevent a break-in . |
| 16 | But I live in fear of calling out the rescue team for a solitary figure glimpsed high on a darkening summit , only to find it 's Hamish McInnes nipping back up to fetch a dropped mitten . |
| 17 | And then the church bells began to ring , and she woke up to find it was Christmas morning . |
| 18 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 19 | People want to know it 's cash value , they want to know what it does erm what it 's worth in very practical terms . |
| 20 | She did n't need to see his face to know it was Niall . |
| 21 | If you think about this it 's based on the four carbon structure so you 've got ta have a few in the name there is a carbon carbon double bond so the basic structure we 've got is the Butane but as there is more than one position you could have that carbon carbon double bond now , to indicate this position and so this one would be called futes it would normally be a butane but to indicate it 's position bute one E and again you 're taking the lowest number so instead of it being a bute three , it 's a bute one E you start at the appropriate . |
| 22 | Arlene gave her a small push to indicate it was time and she moved out . |
| 23 | It knows the right and wrong which have been instilled into it and — a contentious assertion — sometimes it seems to know what is right or wrong even although it has no behavioural conditioning for that situation . |
| 24 | Mum always stood up for Liza , her longtime favourite , telling Dad she had enough sense to know what was right and wrong , but I doubted she did . |
| 25 | Submerged oxygenating plants and floating subjects gain most of their nourishment directly from water , so attempting to feed them is time consuming and undesirable . |
| 26 | But the medals have continued to arrive in this country and among the latest batch of heroes to receive one is Darlington man George Stevens . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've got to remember there 's money involved . ’ |
| 28 | WHEN Al Haig 's brief and troubled spell at the State Department came to a sudden end in June 1982 , Ronald Reagan 's inspired choice to replace him was George Shultz . |
| 29 | After a fourten day deadlock , the council now looks set to reverse it 's decision . |
| 30 | No problem it 's just g it 's a bit funny if there 's more than one of them if you get two or three you do n't say two ox if you had two or three boxes fine but with ox it 's one of these silly words you just have to remember it 's oxen . |