Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb -s] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are the victim of a burglary , the value of the property that has been stolen might be large or small , but the emotional upset and the feeling that someone else has been in your home can live with you for a long time . |
| 2 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
| 3 | I think that what she really wants is for words to be more like numbers . |
| 4 | The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her ! |
| 5 | I see that the television game show that inspired letters to you recently has been at it again . |
| 6 | I 'm actually very dubious about this idea indeed because I , I do n't think that anybody actually likes being in a situation where they simply have to do what they 're told |
| 7 | Because during the course of our discussions today I 'll ask you to introduce me to others if , and only if , you think this meeting with me today has been of benefit to yourself , would that be okay ? |
| 8 | ‘ He always has been in the past , so the Abwehr have found . |
| 9 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 10 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |
| 11 | And any influence of Cézanne that there may be in the Demoiselles as it now appears is of the most general kind . |
| 12 | The Third Annual Punch Egothon ( Spring Edition ) : while it presumes to expose the year 's most overbearing , vain , egocentric celebrities , all it actually does is to unwittingly credit these attributes to your own good selves . |
| 13 | ‘ Mine never has been at a Channel port . |
| 14 | Or it certainly has been for me . |
| 15 | Now , we should not quibble about Schmitter 's definition of pluralism ( which is somewhat different and rather more wordy than is our own perspective on this theory ) since Schmitter is intent on making the point that the system of interest politics as it currently exists is at odds with the pluralist viewpoint in crucial ways that bear on the nature of interest groups and the access of particular interests to the state . |
| 16 | Cos what normally happens is with tetanus , that the reason it kills you is that you stop breathing because your muscles that work your lungs , the diaphragm , the intercostal muscles between the ribs , those seize up and you just stop breathing . |
| 17 | So are you omitting to say what exactly has been in numbers . |