Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 2 | Well Liberties sell a fabric that they call poult , P O U L T for what was it ? |
| 3 | mhm Well you 've told me a bit about what 's it 's like to be inside Kuwait , what about the Kuwaitis outside Kuwait ? |
| 4 | Yeah and the best bit about it is I have n't started to indicate but it was still a dangerous place to overtake . |
| 5 | The only bit about it is you have to sit around when the vicar comes in and |
| 6 | I said the funny part about it was we never had at home |
| 7 | Paying £40 for it is nothing less than extortionate . |
| 8 | " Running our risks for us are you — like El-ahrairah ? " |
| 9 | One would need to know things — technical things — about speech , about why and how rhythm worked , about selection of nouns and word order to explain how he could state with finality — so that the words for it were his words — simple truths . |
| 10 | All on Stenness , they never went to Harray for there were plenty of fish in Stenness you see . |
| 11 | The tragedy of it is it could have been avoided . |
| 12 | I reminded her about the things she said last night — the things you apparently overheard , so you say — and she now realises she was quite wrong to say those things , even if they were supposed to be some kind of joke … and … she is sorry for saying them because she now understands that those careless words of hers were what basically caused the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 13 | There is actual evidence that he did do it in his childhood , and th so they 're not erm , they 're kind of building everything on a single sentence like Leo does , you know , amazingly enough , Leo 's book starts with entry of Who 's Who in a single phrase , where she calls herself daughter of , her father . |
| 14 | That side of me 's it 's this side of me now . |
| 15 | What side of him was she about to have inflicted on her now ? |
| 16 | It is something which seems such an ordinary thing to do , and yet the effect of it is something which has not been seen in pictorial art since Giotto . |
| 17 | No , I 'll get a , I 'll get a replacement off my parents , but sorry , she changed the film cos sixteen pictures of it were my ones cos I had n't used the film |
| 18 | A related point requiring emphasis is that much of what one is inclined to regard as the mere ‘ facts of the case ’ are often ‘ institutional ’ facts our recognition of which is itself partly the adoption of an attitude . |
| 19 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 20 | In the car with her were her boyfriend Peter , his sister Jane and another school friend Lucy . |
| 21 | There 's no rude words in it are there ? |
| 22 | Have you got a couple of settings on yours is it a high and a low ? |
| 23 | It 's no good to me is it ? |
| 24 | And then I Well it 's no use me telling me because they 're no good to you are they them ? |
| 25 | no good to us is it ? |
| 26 | Bet you Perivale 's no good to us is it ? |
| 27 | Certainly no weight to it is there ? |
| 28 | You would n't let me turn the telly on which is what most people want to do on a Saturday evening , off |
| 29 | He must know what their closeness was doing to her , if its effect on him was anything to go by . |
| 30 | You asked , sir , a little earlier for a definition of integrated and balanced community , and erm I 'm disappointed that er you did n't recall my paragraph three fifteen of my submission to you were I set out erm I thought erm |