Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a number of closed doors there was a feeling of discouragement and uselessness but I thank God that another door has opened — not in a direction I had originally looked but one which I am sure is right for now . |
| 2 | I am taking action which I am sure is responsible and necessary . |
| 3 | have n't got the plan in What has just been pointed out to me is that the er smaller site , that is the one with Oakwood on it , which I 'm sure is familiar to er anybody present , that 's just opposite Skelton Manor and Court , and the larger site was the land to the east of Oakwood incorporating this much larger pond w with what appears to be an island in it , er running right up to the boundary of the conservation area , I think . |
| 4 | I put this on the agenda erm the phrase at the moment seems to be flagging things up and my concern is opposite Dave is the but as everybody I 'm sure is aware we 've got erm divisional A L O's based within as Crime Prevention Officers , the main concern for my particular area is Bill although based at has actually for the last three years built up a good working relationship and inspected staff from and . |
| 5 | I 'm practising being spontaneous . |
| 6 | She was a sly one , a crawler , with a facade of laughing bonhomie which I was convinced was egg-shell thin . |
| 7 | ‘ I think you 're confusing being rude with being truthful . ’ |
| 8 | You 're supposed be glad that it 's old and do n't sit in there , you know th but er it 's bad , but though is n't it ? |
| 9 | On death row in San Quentin , California , Maureen Timmins for the first time met the convicted murderer she 's convinced is innocent . |
| 10 | Said we were lucky being high on the hill like the new cathedral on St James 's Mount . |
| 11 | In this way those candidates who recognise that they are unsuitable are able to drop out of the process early on . |
| 12 | Although these floods , which have been termed streamfloods by Davis , are rare and of short duration , the amount of work of which they are capable is enormous . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Experience will tell you how hard they have to be tightened : generally 1¼ turns after they are hand-tight is sufficient for 15mm fittings ( 1 turn for 22mm ) . |
| 15 | Her people when they are important are moral agents ; and when they are good they are usually nice as well . |
| 16 | The story goes that it was a very merry party — maybe they were celebrating being able to get in the hay after a bad spell — and they stepped on the bridge to enjoy some music , a very Tallentire thing to do . |
| 17 | They said that the reason they were authoritarian was due to the pressure involved with the job . |
| 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 | Really I I I just go out mainly , I 'm not , not cos I do n't , I just , I go out because there 's nothing else to do and it 's boring being stuck in on your own all the time ! |
| 20 | ‘ It 's horrible being able to see Hametabad from here , ’ said Steve . |
| 21 | Oh I I think I shall have to turn this one up a little Dad says it 's alright being long cos it makes me look taller well I do n't know about that what do you think ? |
| 22 | When he recently received a César , France 's answer to the Oscars , Mr Depardieu lumbered up to the stage , giggled as if half-drunk and whispered ‘ It 's tough being alive and lonely ’ . |
| 23 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 24 | It follows that the principle of the liability of the state for damage to individuals caused by a breach of Community law for which it is responsible is inherent in the scheme of the Treaty . |
| 25 | Here then is this man who has this very unusual interview with Jesus Pilate the hard hearted and hard headed governor of Judea , the representative of Caesar the might of imperial Rome and he has upon his hands for trial a man whom he is convinced is innocent . |
| 26 | It was tough being jealous of a nobody . |
| 27 | That he was deficient was obvious , given his neck ; that gargantuan root , with an Adam 's apple big as a fist . |
| 28 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 29 | Cos he was double is quiet and three . |