Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [adj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only need I have where you 're concerned is for you to leave me alone , Luke — ’ She froze momentarily as he lifted a hand , passing light fingers over the bright satiny curls at one side of her head . |
| 2 | Where they were wrong was in leading you to believe that the package they were selling you represented good value for money . |
| 3 | Certainly the argument that law will be brought into disrepute if it enters areas where it is unenforceable is motivated by a concern to protect law 's reputation . |
| 4 | Yes , and he goes arriving he 's only got Frances then James and that I 'm sure is . |
| 5 | It 's there and er that I 'm sure was the opening observation in the paper that will be written about responsibility and |
| 6 | ‘ All right , your claim that I was superfluous is probably valid , so why was n't I made redundant in the usual way ? |
| 7 | The fact that she was pregnant was forcing both their hands in a way which was nearly amusing . |
| 8 | Is that the line of argument that you 're that 's underpinning what you 're saying ? |
| 9 | You should be feeling confident , bold and assertive now making this an ideal time for meeting your boss or bank manager and getting support for a new idea , concept or venture that you 're sure is a winner . |
| 10 | It 's best to bring an early morning , mid-flow sample with you , because the hormones that show that you are pregnant are most concentrated in your early-morning urine . |
| 11 | I would disagree that er , humans are n't used in experiments because I think that we 're all being used at various |
| 12 | ‘ The reason that they 're sparse is because when I 'm singing it 's kind of hard to be very rhythmic , so it 's the voice first and the guitar parts fitting around that , with the whole thing being locked together by a pretty solid and very basic groove . ’ |
| 13 | In this way those candidates who recognise that they are unsuitable are able to drop out of the process early on . |
| 14 | Given that there are good correlations between the two , this would imply that they are both being caused by a third , unidentified event . |
| 15 | My reason for dwelling at some length on this matter of accuracy and acquisition is that the assumption that they are identical is a corner-stone to the whole edifice of a theory recently propounded which claims to provide a solution to the problems of language teaching which have plagued us for so long . |
| 16 | Ken Smith , electronics director of the Scottish Development Agency , thinks that these firms have helped to promote the growth of other electronics firms in the region and the fact that they are foreign-owned is unimportant . |
| 17 | And the only reason that they were undamaged was because he had n't made up his mind whether simply to destroy them , his original intention , or whether to try to sell the designs to someone else . |
| 18 | For the current purpose , demonstrating that they were different is sufficient to illustrate two main points : that understanding a place involves uncovering the multivariate and inter-related nature of its culture , for which the three components of the schema in chapter 3 provide a valuable framework ; and that without understanding the nature of a place in all its complexity , it is difficult to appreciate what happens there during particular events — simple , monocausal explanations ( often located in the sphere of production ) are usually insufficient . |
| 19 | I think that it 's that 's very very rude ! |
| 20 | Yeah , turn that power off before you do any more to that it 's silly is n't it ? |
| 21 | To say that it is peaceful is an understatement ; it is so quiet as to be almost unsettling for anyone used to the never-ending noise of the city . |
| 22 | Double glazing may discourage intrusion , but claims that it is burglar-proof are rather exaggerated . |
| 23 | And once when Maman was fretting over his painful joints , I heard Jean-Claude retort that it was better being a physical rather than an emotional arthritic . |
| 24 | The fact that it was childless was cited as one reason for its collapse . |
| 25 | That it was difficult was of no surprise to the duty obstetrician . |
| 26 | She had to admit later , on renewing her lipstick in the Ladies ' , that it was fun being seen out with such a charismatic man . |
| 27 | what 's happened , but it does say in it that at the beginning that you assume that he is a youth because he 's got , come from university , but when he 's in the graveyard the fellow , it , it comes out that he 's thirty is n't he ? |
| 28 | To learn that he is bisexual is enough to plunge his wife into an abyss of torment , anger , pain and fear . |
| 29 | Tony Grant , of Coopers and Lybrand , who chairs the initiative , hopes to take advantage of the deregulation of German , French and other European financial sectors that he is sure is coming . |
| 30 | Rumours floated in the West that he is alive are not true . |