Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that I mean is one of the major criticisms against a functional approach , that sometimes you need to know what 's going on inside the box fully to be able to fully appreciate the behaviour anyway . |
| 2 | I remember being one of the most disgusted when Susan Grillet married a Beastly Baronet nearly three times her age . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend will realise that his statement on corporation tax for small companies needs slight adjustment and I am sure that he is considering a major adjustment on capital gains , which I understand is one of the taxes where the cost of collection exceeds the revenue . |
| 4 | Point taken , and I really feel sorry for Rocky at the moment , and hope he does n't leave , but I think with a player like Strachan at the club , who I believe is one of the best players in the Premier League at the moment , I think it would be foolish to leave him out . |
| 5 | And this I I find is one of the helpful things and when you get together not during the actual talking the actual session but er . |
| 6 | When , therefore , I say ‘ The colour I saw yesterday was a white colour , , or ‘ The sensation I feel is one of tightness ’ , in both cases the attribute I affirm of the colour or of the other sensation is mere resemblance — simple likeness to sensations I have had before , and which have had those names bestowed upon them . |
| 7 | And that I think , I feel is one of the loopholes in the Sale of Goods Act , because it does n't lay down a definite time limit . |
| 8 | Because the trouble is , I can go back to nineteen sixty four , Industrial Relations Act , which I thought was one of the best things ever bought out , whereby er the erm terms were levied to do so much training . |
| 9 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 10 | I thought was one of the other books I ordered for you with regard to what they call it |
| 11 | He 's actually sacked his own foreman , the main contractor cos the main , the foreman turned up on site and this I think is one of the lessons to be learnt , is that foreman turned up on site and saw what was happening |
| 12 | we know where we are all the time , which I think is one of the huge advantages , |
| 13 | yes , any colour you can think of , I mean erm , blue I think is one of the worse , but thinking of lampshades we used to sell a lot of er lampshades for putting on table lamps er and erm , we 'd have just about every colour and somebody would come along and say well erm have n't you got one in purple and of course I 'd refrain from saying thank god no I have n't |
| 14 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 15 | So I think there 's an element still to come out in , in that area , er but if you look at er , er the er issue generally , there 's a lot in the White Paper on er more than I expected actually , on energy efficiency , which I think is one of the keys to getting down er levels of carbon dioxide , and there is discussion about some of the many many ways in which the role of the motor car will affect er how we reduce our C O two . |
| 16 | Use of plant I think was one of the things you were concerned about ? |
| 17 | It was never on the agenda in Britain which I think was one of the major problems in the early days . |
| 18 | I had been one of the twenty-eight ( twenty-six plus two tellers ) Conservative Members who voted on 29 July 1954 against the conclusion of the treaty with Egypt under which that evacuation took place . |
| 19 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 20 | If I had been one of their advisers when TV came along I would have said : ‘ Do n't meddle with it . ’ |
| 21 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 22 | Sausage rolls or something Yes that 's er had a for that we cou we stopped there at I 've never been up that wa that way at that 's about the farthest north I 've been one of these coaches erm two , two , two or three times and er and er I 'd seen that Betty 's on er on television before . |
| 23 | And it 's certainly been marvellous to come and listen to it , as I have been one of your loyal supporters over many years . |
| 24 | I intended being one of the three people to live in Oxford Street , until I saw the place . |
| 25 | Course measuring , which has been one of the most important areas of work in road racing over the past few years , has certainly not suffered for want of funding . ’ |
| 26 | Hence the belated and misguided call from Kenneth Baker for longer school days — again betraying a rather narrow view of the use of time — which has been one of the unremarked and growing features of secondary curriculum development of the last twenty years . |
| 27 | They are devout members of the hierarchical Catholic Church , which has been one of the main influences on their lives . |
| 28 | The event , which has been one of the most successful new launches in recent years , is now in jeopardy for the coming season , although both the RYA and James Capel are seeking a last minute sponsor . |
| 29 | of having sort of help set something off and then tiptoe away which has been one of my functions , that , that , that it can happen |
| 30 | Mr Alan Houghton , group director of the Selby mine complex , of which Stillingfleet is one of five collieries , said : ‘ Everybody knew exactly what we were doing . |