Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand there are people like Neil and Assif who are obviously trying to make names for themselves . |
| 2 | If I say a little bit about Moat er , we are a registered housing association who are obviously monitored by the housing corporation responsible to a committee of management . |
| 3 | A part-time soldier who was nearly killed when a grenade exploded just six feet from him celebrated his 50th birthday at home . |
| 4 | Any musician who is seriously embarking on a career in the music business should join the Musicians ' Union . |
| 5 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 6 | Constance had no time to assess the bewildering exchange of tone that the lunch party had taken before Giancarlo was walking towards her with a vivacious woman by his side who was busily blowing kisses and calling ‘ Ciao ’ to the tables she passed . |
| 7 | They stretched their lead at the top of the Premier League to five points , beating an Aston Villa side who were gradually becoming the force everyone else feared . |
| 8 | As with most things in this 24 hour a day town , the bar never closes which is good news for pool and table-football fans who are well catered for here . |
| 9 | There is the one where a madcap home supporter gingerly urinates from above on opposition fans who are innocently drinking tea in what they take to be a gentle drizzle . |
| 10 | Universally panned by the critics , the film fans who were already vanishing in their droves from the theatres by the mid-Sixties , were given further encouragement to stay away and heads rolled at Warners . |
| 11 | Both groups contained a number of fans who were scathingly referred to as ‘ part-time ’ supporters by those in the Rowdies and the Town Boys groups . |
| 12 | Then it was Kylie who was always introduced as Dannii 's sister . |
| 13 | Oh , it was good food , Sally-Anne thought gratefully , tucking into it , beginning to enjoy herself now that her ordeal was over , and was happy to sit there with Dr Neil who was also enjoying his supper , by his expression . |
| 14 | How on earth was she to stop him — her dear Dr Neil who was so distracted by love that all his sense appeared to have left him ? |
| 15 | Only the person to whom the duty of confidence is owed will be allowed to sue ; in other words , an outsider who is adversely affected by trading in shares to which the information relates , will again have no remedy . |
| 16 | Add to these two schizophrenic cats , two bears with what look like severe cases of acne , and several reindeer who are just asking to end up on the wrong side of a roast dinner . |
| 17 | Half the men were already straggling back into the Residency building or into the hospital in order to form a new position while the remainder did their best to hold off the sepoys who were already swarming over the ramparts . |
| 18 | In an appeal on June 11 Iran called on the UN to protect between 500,000 and 900,000 Shias who were reportedly trapped in the marshes of southern Iraq surrounded by 100,000 Iraqi troops and airborne units [ see pp. 38081-82 ; 38211 ] . |
| 19 | Do you want to talk about disarmament or do you want to help those in the White House and in the Kremlin who are really trying to do something effective about it ? ’ |
| 20 | But conversely ( as Mr. Utley did not feel able to dispute , although he did not formally concede the point ) a defendant who is legally aided at first instance and in the Court of Appeal , but who for any reason then ceases to be aided and incurs the full costs of successfully resisting an appeal to the House of Lords , is eligible to recover those costs from the board . |
| 21 | The miniature was much damaged by being placed near a large stove in the house of the defendant who was nevertheless held not liable to L. |
| 22 | It is perhaps worth making the point ( for readers who are just beginning their enquiries into the history of this period ) that a lord did not usually own all the land on his manor but had certain defined rights , which differed from place to place and even between neighbouring settlements . |
| 23 | For those readers who are optically minded , you might also like to ponder over the design difficulties associated with a lens system which comes into direct contact with water , where the refractive indices of the organic water-based lens and the surrounding watery medium itself are very similar . |
| 24 | Vide my earlier comments about size and rates : I have resisted the temptation to calculate the possible profitability for a well-run establishment and leave it to those readers who are suitably motivated . |
| 25 | The kindness and generosity of the owners has been especially welcomed by one of the readers who is mostly confined to her home . |
| 26 | We agreed on the use of Gordon Ingles for another commercial film and Leon suggested I could make any necessary further contact on such matters directly with Hellen who was apparently designing film sets , writing scripts and sometimes directing Shelly productions . |
| 27 | Training to be a teacher and with a wisdom that belied her years , she explained that it was her half-brother who was now living in Mainz and had suggested that Erich ( the Dusseldorfer ) travel down to Tonga to look for a wife . |
| 28 | Leaving his cry wafting after him , he disappeared in pursuit of a housemaid who was busily removing all the clean antimacassars that had only just been placed lovingly in position for the oil-bedaubed heads that would shortly be resting on them . |
| 29 | Rachel stood up , brushing twigs and leaves from her clothes , then she turned to David who was still sitting on the bank staring up at her . |
| 30 | Samuel is one of the few informants in this study who was actually born in Jamaica and spent several years there . |