Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he reluctantly yielded on several occasions to such pressure , he much more quickly , and quite as often , violated his word afterwards ; in this he was but his father 's son . |
| 2 | If the Stormy Petrel does not seem priggish it is because his appetite for action and mystery is always as evident in the stones as his steadfast loyalty and his intelligence . |
| 3 | She simply told me how relieved she was that her husband had not put to sea that day . |
| 4 | So the more conscious we are the less likely it is that our activities become habitual . |
| 5 | Roughly speaking , the lower the socioeconomic group of someone 's father , the more likely it is that his or her full-time education ended in school , rather than college or university . |
| 6 | He believes there were many contributory factors to his sacking but the prevailing one was that his views often clashed with Gedge 's . |
| 7 | But perhaps above all it was that his candidature was unreservedly supported by Tawney , who knew him well , which convinced the appointing committee that Jacques had the background experience , commitment and personal qualities required by the District at a particularly difficult point in its existence . |
| 8 | How unlucky it is that my good master is not at hoe . |
| 9 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 10 | She says that between three and four thousand people in the country have so far registered complaints about the drug with their solicitors — they will have to be examined before any action is taken to get expert advice on how probable it is that their problem was caused by the Myodil injections . |
| 11 | And , Sir , I come to crave of you a boon , that you will give me Rodrigo of Bivar to be my husband , with whom I shall hold myself well married , and greatly honoured ; for certain I am that his possessions will one day be greater than those of any man in your dominions . |
| 12 | ‘ I said how disappointing it was that her annus mirabilis had turned out to be an annus horribilis . |