Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | . But 'll stay as it is . |
| 2 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 3 | In summary , Collins have pulled out of participation in the National Corpus Project and Longman have given a commitment to participate in the National Corpus Project , which leaves us having submitted a proposal a revised proposal to the D T I , erm fully documenting Longman 's contribution , erm but leaving O U P's role and financial contribution to the project open in anticipation that there is likely to be some rearrangements amongst the industrial partners , that is there may be a reallocation of funding between Longman and O U P and maybe the addition of new partners erm or it may just stay as it is erm . |
| 4 | All citizens need a highly concentrated er episode in their lives where all they do is think about what is right in the circumstances and this will give them good practice , good training to being an enlightened voter . |
| 5 | I I I think really they er they forget that that there 's a quite a large number of the population , they do think about what 's going on , and they 're not all children and they 're not and are n't all that easy easily persuaded . |
| 6 | She could n't bear to remember the dreadful things she had said that day , any more than she could think about what was happening to Maggie now . |
| 7 | In a way a baby seemed less likely than before Claudia was pregnant : perhaps we did n't dare think about what was about to happen . |
| 8 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 9 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Notwithstanding exceptions to the rule that a solicitor may not act for both seller and buyer , in any such case a solicitor can not act as there is a conflict of interest between the parties . |
| 11 | She complained to the police and the NSPCC but was told they could not act as there was no visible bruising on the boy . |
| 12 | What do you know about what 's going on ? ’ |
| 13 | Not that people used to let you know about they were hard up I mean , they just would n't would they ? |
| 14 | The unlimited liability aspect of Lloyd 's is impressed upon every name , so for a name to say after the event that they did n't know about it is a load of cobblers . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps you 're just playing your cards close to your chest and the first we 'll know about it is your engagement . |
| 16 | Ellen Jebeau brought her lips tightly together and drew them inwards between her teeth before she said , with deep bitterness , ‘ I do n't know about it being a time for plain speaking , I can only say that time has shown your ingratitude for what I 've done for you over the years . ’ |
| 17 | Danny , you 're , you 're getting your er , you 're gon na wait for yours are you ? |
| 18 | there are , all that lot 'll have to go onto the seats , mind your fingers can you go down there , open that door no you 'll have to come this side , I 'll have to pass them through to you okay on the floor Paula might be bet the heavier stuff , then if it does fall off it 's not going to make a mess |
| 19 | ‘ What will survive of us is love . ’ |
| 20 | He said he was sure Presidents Bush and Gorbachev would approve of what was happening in Germany , and believed France and Britain , who had given such support during the long and difficult years as well as ‘ our East European neighbours ’ would understand . |
| 21 | The matter has a long history and is illustrative of how law can lag behind what is thought to be economically desirable . |
| 22 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 23 | From the time you fall in love with a property to the time you move in , you can count on it being an average of three to four months . |
| 24 | Well do n't count on it being short then . |
| 25 | Since they have their own Society and Journal , collectors of bookplates may object to them being categorised as ephemera , but they are certainly among the periphera of interest to book-collectors . |
| 26 | But I did object to her being in an interview for those people who were basically teachers ? they were professionals . |
| 27 | Mr. Pannick , for the Secretary of State , did not object to it being raised here ; but he observed that we have no evidence from the department on the topic . |
| 28 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 29 | Perhaps you should include one for each section every issue , so you can focus on what 's wrong with it . |
| 30 | Mummy and daddy can wait on us are n't you ? |