Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make up your mind which it 's to be , Fran . ’ |
| 2 | As we have said , these questions are the subject of a large amount of current research which it is beyond the scope of this book to consider . |
| 3 | The importance attached to maintaining the ‘ prestige ’ of the emirs soon translated in practice into the importance of maintaining the autonomy of the Residents , and subsequent governors of Nigeria found almost without exception that Lugard had created an administrative monster which it was beyond their power to control . |
| 4 | The owner wished to find out whether such a relationship could be formulated and used to predict sales in other shops which he was considering adding to his chain . |
| 5 | She could sense some undercurrent of tension which she was at a loss to explain . |
| 6 | Please be warned : they are capable of getting through that gap which you are in two minds about bothering to block . |
| 7 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 8 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |
| 9 | When Dick 's lads are down to seven and a half hours which they are in the erm summertime , I mean we s the lads 'll come in I mean we ca n't pull them off now , but those lads 'll come in and clean up . |
| 10 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 11 | ( Her assassination in Nicaragua in April 1983 has had serious political repercussions which it is beyond the compass of this book to discuss . ) |
| 12 | But ‘ what is forbidden is to question the correctness of a decision or determination which it was within the area of their jurisdiction to make . ’ |
| 13 | We know that there are more of goods wagons which we are in the process of securing . |
| 14 | The child needs to learn how and why to use a potty and parents may need to be encouraged to take their child to the lavatory with them so that the child can imitate what happens , have a potty around , tell the child what it is for , and encourage him or her to get used to it by sitting on it . |
| 15 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 16 | But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning . |
| 17 | Consumption of butter today was only half what it was in 1980 and a quarter of the 1970s figures , Dr Buss said . |
| 18 | Millions poured on to the streets of London on 29 July 1981 to be able to say they were there on the day , to tell their children and grandchildren what it was like . |
| 19 | We was told to get a mortgage and that of course she she was on her own . |
| 20 | The odd thing was his first thought was her husband , Ed , must be told — Ed whom she was on the verge of divorcing . |
| 21 | But with the other companies that have been established , and all water companies have done the same , the way to increase profits is to go into er a business which you 're in competition with other businesses and you stand or fail as to how well you do on that . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it 's psychological satisfactions of that sort which he 's after and which Rosamund puts in his path . |
| 23 | that it appears to my Lords that this space of ground , including property in Downing-Street which the Board of Works has the power to appropriate to the purposes of public offices , will be sufficient for any new buildings which it is at present desirable to commence in that locality . |
| 24 | And remember , it 's for about three minutes only and the driver will be busy doing whatever it is inside the van . ’ |
| 25 | For his part , Edward sensed that the ice was cracking and since he desperately needed money , preferably without political complications — his lay subjects were restive now — he restored the archbishop 's lands and offered the primate and several magnates what they were by then demanding — confirmation of Magna Carta , the Charter of the Forest and some additional articles . |
| 26 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |
| 27 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |
| 28 | Time , when I ask people in workshops what it is like being a teacher , they say they feel unappreciated : unappreciated within the school by seniors , colleagues and pupils , and unappreciated by the world at large — parents , politicians , pundits , the media . |
| 29 | ‘ Any notion whom I 'm to special ? ’ |
| 30 | Questions which it is worth keeping in mind when reading the remaining chapters in this book would be the following : |