Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [indef pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 2 | Reaction to the latest rise makes it clear that everyone is watching out for another eruption of internal discord on the exchange rate between Sir Alan Walters in Downing Street , and Mr Lawson in the Treasury . |
| 3 | Thus when analysing organisational goals , one must be clear that one is referring to the objectives officially sanctioned in the organisation , and not to the goals that organisations pursue . |
| 4 | Well the other morning we were there and everything was quite in order what the police were afraid that somebody was going to get hurt . |
| 5 | She 's afraid that something 's going to happen tonight . ’ |
| 6 | Their style was exceptionally clear and one was carried along in the unfolding of an argument which seemed as majestically inevitable as the development of a Bach fugue . |
| 7 | ‘ Different styles made it thoroughly entertaining and nobody was complaining apart from me ! |
| 8 | The North West Airlines planes and the cargo trucks were empty and nobody was hurt . |
| 9 | It was really quite funny cos everybody was laughing at us . |
| 10 | Here are some sentences in which two consonant sounds are identical to look at but sound slightly different because one is voiced ( the vocal cords vibrate ) and the other is unvoiced . |
| 11 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 12 | It was probably frightening , but right now she only felt weak and tired , grateful that somebody was taking charge . |
| 13 | Luckily the weather was so awful that nothing was flying , so there was only routine work to attend to . |
| 14 | In the full sense of the word , it is arguable that nobody was governed before the later nineteenth century ; it would certainly be foolish to maintain that either royal or princely government in the twelfth century operated according to fixed rules or without intermission or over all the inhabitants of a defined area . |
| 15 | For a while , there , she 'd been convinced that everything was coming together . |
| 16 | At least it was the same for all traffic and Adam was soon convinced that no-one was following him . |
| 17 | Stephen became convinced that someone was following him . ’ |
| 18 | Regional studies seem more appropriate if one is to assess colonic permeability . |
| 19 | ( One can of course question whether or not the axioms are appropriate if one is trying to model a concrete example . ) |
| 20 | In reply , Freud considers the rationalist argument that murder is not engaged in because it makes social life impossible if anyone is allowed to murder anyone else . |
| 21 | It was a very strange incident but thankfully not serious and nobody was hurt . ’ |
| 22 | Although this seems clever when one is told about it , a few minutes-hands-on experience demonstrates that it is not AI at all — it is a parlour trick . |
| 23 | But these ‘ less-eligibility ’ arguments are surely at their weakest when applied to food , and virtually untenable when one is talking about people incarcerated for fourteen years or more . |
| 24 | It is always sad when someone is driven into a corner and becomes desperate . |
| 25 | But wherever possible if somebody 's working in your area right now we 'd send you there . |
| 26 | I 'm going to school dead brainy and everyone 's going |
| 27 | Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said |
| 28 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |
| 29 | At present little or nothing is known about these patients . |
| 30 | While there was , from the platform , evidence of considerable care and attention being paid to the potential physical hazards of the industry , little or nothing was said by the industry 's speakers about the effects of chemicals or their by-products on the environment . |