Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A parameter entity is an SGML construct which may be thought of in simple terms as like a variable declaration in a programming language : the effect of using them here is that each base tag set can provide its own specific definition for the constituents of texts , which can , moreover be modified by the user . |
| 2 | One reason for including them here is that the bombings and assassinations of today are the legacy of the civil disturbances of the 1960s . |
| 3 | Yes , I can see , Bill , that the reason why you invited me today is that I am Mr Clean , not being a Local Authority Councillor of any shape or hue erm and I seem to remember |
| 4 | I am bigger than any of them , but I think the reason they let me through is because I am older : they assume I am crew . |
| 5 | What pleased her enormously was that over these garments Tina actually wore one of the patchwork aprons she had made and given her years before , with little hope of their ever being used . |
| 6 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 7 | The only thing that would have made it better was if it was in 3-D . ’ |
| 8 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 9 | Now , unless she could rescue herself , she had not even a place on the outside of Mrs Browning 's life and what troubled her most was that she cared . |
| 10 | ‘ The thing that surprised me most was that they did n't know how to make a quality tube at AISA and we showed them . ’ |
| 11 | I 've got I 've got the currency and you 're sort the way we 're sorting it out is that we pay a quarter and you pay a half |
| 12 | What did surprise me however was that some of my colleagues in the Commons took it on themselves to force me and others to change their minds . |
| 13 | One fact that contradicts it immediately is that women are often in the vanguard of linguistic change towards the standard variety . |
| 14 | Now , what I was gon na do now was go through this quoick transformation right , you 're not gon na be asked t to produce it in an exam or anything like that , but the reason why I 'm doing it now is that you will need it for your er , your Q M exam not er your exam , your project right , cos there is a similar applicat , it 's quite a commonly used tool you 'll find er , where wherever we have a , erm , an expression with an infinite number of erm possibilities or an in infinite number of arguments . |
| 15 | The reason why this amendment in my view is one that can take us forward is that it places responsibility now for clearing up the mess clearly where it belongs and that 's with the Labour group . |
| 16 | ‘ They used their failure to get sponsorship as an excuse to get out , ’ says Mario with understandable bitterness , and what hurt him most was that they strung him along until well into 1976 , despite the fact that he could easily have had another drive . |
| 17 | It was held : ( a ) When the police took the deceased into custody they assumed certain responsibilities , including that of passing on information which might affect his well being when he was transferred to the prison authorities . |
| 18 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |
| 19 | I mean it sometimes is that for instance we we have a daughter in York and I have parents in London |
| 20 | What must be hurting him today is that others did not have the courage to do the same to him . |
| 21 | What bothered him most was that the past seemed to get closer and closer to the present . |
| 22 | The sort of stuff that you get in in y'know sort of everyday gossip between friends about y'know when people talk about each- other , oh I think he 's a bit er I think he 's a bit camp , or I think he probably is but erm yeah yeah all that kind of thing yeah erm is is like the the informal repertoire , the informal repertoire that you do between friends erm , between people to whom it sort of y'know it 's not very important if you give them the wrong impression sort of thing . |
| 23 | Wainfleet did not want it back , the only reason he was carrying it around was that he had jotted a telephone number on the back . |
| 24 | Er again , it 's all down to where you 're going to stand to take the photograph , and I 'm not so sure that you I think you 've gone a little , no you know , I , I criticized the other one a bit , from the same person I think it possibly is because it 's the same style , the same sort of mounting . |
| 25 | The reason you do it usually is because if you do n't succeed you 're not going to eat . |
| 26 | ‘ What struck me most was that everybody in America smiles all the time . |
| 27 | What distressed her most was that she began to find herself liking the woman , with whom she realized she had much in common . |
| 28 | The reason a black hole ‘ remembers ’ the electric charge , angular momentum , and mass of the matter that collapsed and forgets everything else is that these three quantities are coupled to long-range fields : in the case of charge the electromagnetic field , and in the case of angular momentum and mass the gravitational field . |
| 29 | The reason for discussing it here is that , under the Sexual Offences Act 1967 , this offence is not committed where the act is done in private , between consenting males , both aged 21 or over . |
| 30 | Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it . |