Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [noun sg] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or else you can be on the way back from from from Europe and suddenly find , Oh I 'm sorry that plane 's not leaving tonight Mister would you mind going and spending the night in the holiday hotel in so and so and so and so . |
| 2 | Erm , so the editorial task each each time is exactly the same , you had to rewrite the extract in modern standard English , and then comment on any differences , and explain why those differences occurred , but they are quite often , erm , eighteenth or nineteenth century extracts from books , descriptions of things , erm , dialect , descriptions of of events , and things like that , and last year 's one , on , the one of last year 's paper was er , a middle English one . |
| 3 | Where 's that that man 's ever so nervous ai n't he ? |
| 4 | Was it possible this urchin was really the repository of cataclysmic sexuality as Ewan claimed ? |
| 5 | We shall see that since 1925 this code is now replaced by a new scheme of intestate succession , which applies to all the property of a deceased person ( see pp. 111–13 ) . |
| 6 | I am just grateful this injury was not as bad as first feared . ’ |
| 7 | Thereafter , however , their share increased steadily until by 1850 this market was more important than either the European or North American market , in both of which home cotton manufacture had become significant . |
| 8 | Oh really , what 's that another fuchsia is n't it , erm |
| 9 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 10 | We were told that on a taxation on the indemnity basis the result is usually a recovery of a high percentage of the costs actually incurred but that some percentage is always taxed off . |
| 11 | In the politically charged and uncertain years of the late thirties this imagery was very powerful . |
| 12 | So what we say on on the basis of Mr Justice er victory Nat West and Midland bank and the er authority in er that this evidence is not in this report , does n't assist you and what is relevant is |
| 13 | There 's there 's one , I think that 's gon na need clarifying , and that 's that this course is n't about presenting , er , it it maybe about adopting a selling approach but it 's not about presentation skills . |
| 14 | I can tell you that that this area is not far from the area that was hit last month , also in helicopter raids , by forces . |
| 15 | Er and and on all counts the necessity for bringing forward this policy , given the existing controls that exists , given the controls that will exist in the normal operation of the development plan system , development plan lead system should I say , erm mean that that this policy is totally unnecessary . |
| 16 | The abuse being hurled at the SNP by Labour this week was not theatrical but real . |
| 17 | But it was brutally clear that love was not a feature in his thinking . |
| 18 | Because the resources of the Redundant Churches Fund are fairly slight related to the large number of churches which are falling into disuse , it should be equally clear that conversion is often the only way in which a creditable building can be saved from complete destruction through neglect and vandalism . |
| 19 | It was soon clear that rowing was not my strong point . |
| 20 | For the villagers of Kidlington in the 1890s that privilege was not only rare , it was also a startling novelty . |
| 21 | What we 're looking at in this half hour is why and how we use drugs and what we might change . |
| 22 | yes yes absolutely , oh yes this this course is entirely about verbal presentation |
| 23 | And Jesus saying this this this this salvation is not something that you do , it 's something that is done within you ! |
| 24 | Oh you 're quite enjoying this this morning are n't you ? |
| 25 | Thank you , breezy this morning is n't it ? |
| 26 | As the lakes in the district are usually linear this technique was most useful in foreshortening a long lake and so forming a more round midground subject . |
| 27 | That 's the kind of strange double-think this country is so capable of . |
| 28 | " Mr Grout , " Starke sighed , laying the pen down again , " I 'm afraid this interview is n't really getting us very far . |
| 29 | A turnout of at least 40 per cent was required to make a first round vote valid , but on Sept. 30 this threshold was not met in the majority of constituencies ( turnout nationwide was only 36 per cent ) , necessitating a second ballot for more than 80 per cent of council seats . |
| 30 | But regarding 2 this teacher was not especially charismatic — in fact more self-effacing than naturally the centre of attention . |