Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I had been 'cause I took CSEs at school and I got sort of fairly average grades ( 1 in music ; 2 in English ; 3 in history , general science and woodwork ) . |
| 2 | Peel told the NME : ‘ The Wedding Present 's virtues are that they make records which are direct and uncomplicated and it seems that these are now being regarded as vices in some quarters . ’ |
| 3 | And then the ultimate differences between the states are that they have control over their spending . |
| 4 | Important characteristics of expert systems are that they provide advice in problem-solving based on the knowledge of experts , facilitate learning through experience and allow the use of natural language processing . |
| 5 | The majority of the training is within the Options Agency , erm , achieve a positive outcome , and I do apologise with all the jargon that will creep in , erm , positive outcomes in terms of these programmes are that they achieve jobs . |
| 6 | The facts are that I asked Warren Beatty not to cast Sean Young in the role for Dick Tracy . ’ |
| 7 | The advantages of restricting the stories in length in this way are that it saves time , forces students to focus only on details which they regard as essential , and yields versions which are comparable in terms of length and economy to the Hemingway version . |
| 8 | Disadvantages of the stuff are that it attracts fluff , hair and biscuit crumbs . |
| 9 | Now , now I , now I , personal arguments has always been that we raise people 's standards , out there , throughout the world . |
| 10 | The strong points in their argument have been that they exhibit voluntaryism in its purest form , that they are free of any obligation to find a programme for the tutor-organiser to teach and that , in managing on voluntary effort alone , they are saving the District that portion of a full-time salary which would not be covered by government or local authority grant-aid . |
| 11 | For the Governor , though , the main benefit has been that it gives prison officers ‘ permission to be concerned ’ in a structured and consistent way . |
| 12 | Prejudices , we 're all born with them , they 're if you like perceptions which are only changed very often through experience . |
| 13 | I am if they put houses up there yes . |
| 14 | I ca n't even stay in a hotel because people find out where I am and they make life a bit of a pain . |
| 15 | The only occasions on which you will have to pay anything are if you take advantage of some of our other services linked to the Current Account , which are subject to their own costs . |
| 16 | I still ca n't read him ; I 'm not able to tell whether he thinks this is likely or not , whether he thinks this is evidence I 'm not his man or he still thinks I am but I had help . |
| 17 | Monsieur thinks I am but I know Madame Duvalle does n't agree . |
| 18 | But erm oh they 're a great family they really are but I think George and J Joy 's having Edmund because although Dan lives in the town er what 's it called , New Haven ? |
| 19 | If I have been primarily expository hitherto ( and I have been because I believe Callinicos ' book to be the best on this subject that we have ) I will now begin to turn to criticism ; or at least to trying to ventilate that reservation which , faced by Callinicos , certainty , will not be stilled . |
| 20 | He 's more likely to die than I am because he loves life , his mother tells me so . |
| 21 | It may be that they have feelings stronger than law-abiding persons , which is why they have committed crimes . |
| 22 | Perhaps she was not feeling well , or it could be that she resented Lissa 's intrusion into the office . |
| 23 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 24 | It may well be that she considers China to be as much of a long-term complication for the West as for herself : too capricious to make a dependable ally for NATO , too ambitious to fit into America 's design for the Pacific , too shrewd to challenge vital Soviet interests . |
| 25 | The first requirement , when a man passes ‘ out of darkness into light , from the power of Satan to God ’ ( Acts 26:18 ) would seem to be that he needs assurance . |
| 26 | It may well be that he considered payment of the levy was a necessary prerequisite of obtaining the licence and hence amounted to a form of compulsion . |
| 27 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 28 | It may be that you receive praise for a piece of work well done , and suddenly you feel that you made the right decision to leave the family home and strike out on your own . |
| 29 | It could well be that you have agoraphobia or some kind of depression . |
| 30 | Similarly , some goods are unaccounted for and it may be that you have sales items but are not shown on our list , ( including publications ) . |