Example sentences of "[pron] be [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of his project of recasting psychoanalysis in post-structuralist terms , Jacques Lacan has rewritten the Cartesian cogito in a way that might be seen as approximating more to Augustine 's formulation than Descartes 's : ‘ I think where I am not , therefore I am where I do not think ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll let you know where I am when I know it . |
| 3 | ‘ You know where I am when you tire of the game , my sweet . |
| 4 | So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious . |
| 5 | Men only seem able to do it when they are in their teens — which is when they peak sexually . |
| 6 | Dryness , a dry , hacking , barking cough in cold air , which is when they feel most uncomfortable ; copious expectoration of mucus in the warm which produces a general amelioration . |
| 7 | G. and I trek round to the sampling point for the discharge to the canal for the cooling water , which is when we see the plant is closed . |
| 8 | which is when you 've been there for a for genuinely over an hour and a half . |
| 9 | For example , if original bearing was 030° , then twice that is 060° , which is when you stop timing . |
| 10 | There is the Laundry Room on the second floor , scene of trysts and quickies and what the team here call knee-tremblers , which is when you do it standing up . |
| 11 | If you wish to discuss any of the above in private , please feel free to call me — after one , which is when I rise , and before four , which is when I begin work . |
| 12 | If you wish to discuss any of the above in private , please feel free to call me — after one , which is when I rise , and before four , which is when I begin work . |
| 13 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |
| 14 | Which is why we prefer to work face to face . |
| 15 | Which is why we 've recently abolished some charges altogether and simplified others . |
| 16 | Wella understands this , which is why we 've created the ultimate hair treatment range : System Professional . |
| 17 | Which is why we 've developed our Ultra Sound Diagnostic Scanner to offer peace of mind to prospective parents . |
| 18 | Which is why we 've got to get the typescript to her by the end of January . |
| 19 | What we did was we based our forecast , which I think Mr raised that point , we based our forecast on the admissions that we did at the Department of Social Security and I 'm glad to say that we have been significantly under that level and partly I think because er we 've had people who have genuinely diverted into home care and who 've been able to which is why we 've put the pressure on home care and on the occupational therapy services and partly because erm the , there were some inappropriate admissions I must say that . |
| 20 | Having said that I mean I think there there has been obviously some concern about some security measures , other than terrorist or so called terrorist threats in relation to staff personal security in the building which is why we 've actually moved towards more one stop per section area so there are limits to where the public are actually free to move around the building . |
| 21 | erm and we have to persuade people , really through the medium of , of P R ; through good editorials , through the world 's press and T V erm that it 's safe and then , through the medium of advertising — which is why we 've got a lot of extra money — we have to persuade the world that it 's affordable . |
| 22 | We 've had virtually no rain in the last five weeks which is why we 've got water problems in many parts of the country , but it 's not just us that 's suffering you 'll be glad to know . |
| 23 | It is always pleasant at our large gatherings for the Society to present a unified image which is why we ask particularly for all those taking part in the open classes to wear ALL MEDAU BLUE OR ALL NAVY BLUE . |
| 24 | Which is why we take a cab . |
| 25 | I think in general by virtue of the fact that we go to great lengths to make sure that people fully understand exactly what they have got I mean we 're not in a in a situation where we want people to think that they 've got something they have n't , which is why we go to the lengths that we do erm to make sure that people are fully aware of what they 've got , and if they 're unhappy with what they 've got then obviously within the fourteen day period we give them the right to cancel . |
| 26 | Mostly our air arrives from the west which is why we sit up and take notice of the weather in America , although actually it can change a great deal on the way over here . |
| 27 | ‘ They will be , ’ Vitor said , ‘ which is why we wish to buy your house . ’ |
| 28 | The idea is to make it a bring facility at the moment , which is why we like the station centre and the yard behind it , because people tend to drive out that way as they go to Exeter and back . |
| 29 | Which is why we offer Pictorial Aerogrammes in a choice of six evocative designs . |
| 30 | Which is why we offer CompuAdd Starter Packages . |