Example sentences of "[adj] be [noun] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is piecework and it pays next to nothing . |
| 2 | My name is Alan and this is Terry and we 're Group Two . |
| 3 | The freedoms of childhood include flirting with father and attempting to seduce mother in the safe knowledge that this is play and it will not get out of hand . |
| 4 | The term used for this is polydispersity and it is described by parameters derived from the statistics of the method used for molecular weight determination . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe this is folklore/legend but it 's another version and I too would be interested to hear the authentic account , ’ says Dick . |
| 6 | Shelley , Shelley come round to me right , and she was , she was , she was stroking Dempsey and I walked in the room , this is Dempsey and he walked past me wagging his , you know when they put the tail down and |
| 7 | This is Stone and he 's got round Lewis and done well here Stone and the goalkeeper makes a good interception in the near post . |
| 8 | This is ambition and I 'll have none of it ! ’ |
| 9 | This is Tuesday and it would have been appropriate for him to have raised this matter then . |
| 10 | celebrating your wedding with Chase but this is Ayr and it 's the only dry spot in the British Isles . |
| 11 | This is Sharon and she 's does n't mind college , it 's a bit of a dump ! |
| 12 | So he came in and he he said this is Father and I said , oh are you better ? |
| 13 | This is Paula and she do n't mind college . |
| 14 | Erm hello this is Natalie and I 'm going to interview Amy . |
| 15 | No problem , a disaster like this was forecast and she had wisely brought extra supplies ! ! |
| 16 | This was March and I was n't due out until August . |
| 17 | After all , this was Hackney and there were probably by-laws about such things . |
| 18 | In most cases this was slander but I have seen instances where it was not far from the truth . |
| 19 | Well , well I think I would , I would rath it I mean i it they 've got the responsibility to whistle blow now , you know , professional they 've got , er you know , they 're they these are professionals and they should , they should whistle blow and I mean Maxwell is a perfect example of how nobody , nobody blew the whistle and if you read through the writs , those lots of these people knew what were what was happening an and the whistle should have been blown and I see no reason why the why the pension regulator is going to get any different , different response and also I mean really these people are being in many cases given by th given information by their clients , you know , and I think it 's a very difficult situation to turn round to , to somebody like Mr Maxwell and say well look I 'm terribly sorry Mr Maxwell , we 're going to report you to the pensions regulator , you know and I think that , that er you will just find that that I just do n't feel that the pension regulator in , in that respect , I mean I , I think that I might like to if Peter suggested a pension fraud squad that , that had a open telephone line and the same sort of er powers as the Serious Fraud Office you know , so that if er anybody in a pension fund could , could ring a number and er and people absolutely descended th that , I mean they ge they say somewhere in the report that the pension regulator is going to have er powers and monies to do spot checks . |
| 20 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 21 | These are apartments but our visitors have renamed them piggyback bungalows . |
| 22 | These are apartments but our visitors have renamed them piggyback bungalows . |
| 23 | These are apartments but our visitors have renamed them piggyback bungalows . |
| 24 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 25 | Among the illustrious guests present were Rameau and his wife and daughter , Clerambault ( presumably Evrard Dominique ) and Mondonville , who signed as witnesses . ’ |
| 26 | Outside the windows all was darkness and she understood they had stopped in the tunnel . |
| 27 | I I agree with you that those are concerns but I would not like things like grammar to be isolated out from other language skills |
| 28 | Those are rocks and you are sitting on them gazing out to sea . |
| 29 | Trainer Geoffrey Hubbard 's assistant , Ferdie Murphy , said Vaguely Artistic was ungenuine and he was happy with the riding of the grey . |
| 30 | Of Edward 's six seneschals during his first twenty-two years as king , however , five were Englishmen and none of them acted as Grilly had done , amassing a patrimony for themselves and their heirs in the duchy . |