Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three of them are presiding over us like a tribunal . |
| 2 | Directors are treated as being in a position analogous to that of trustees , so powers conferred upon them are given to them in a fiduciary capacity . |
| 3 | Where an employer seeks to impose new terms , he necessarily faces the problem of the previously bargained contract of employment and must initially show a sound good business reason to justify the changes when dismissals resulting from refusals to accept them are assessed for their fairness . |
| 4 | Both of them are fleeting in their nature . |
| 5 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 6 | Both of them are captivated by what I shall call ‘ the myth of the sense behind the sentence ‘ . |
| 7 | Many of them are engaging in their own complex negotiations and renegotiations around language and music , for example , borrowing elements from ‘ white ’ , Afro-Caribbean and Asian forms and creating new syncretic versions ( Jones , 1988 ; Hewitt , 1986 ; Gilroy , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Most of them are tilted in their orbits at an identical angle to Earth 's ( the exception being the inner and outer two planets ) , proving that they have all evolved together . |
| 9 | Well dey are known by dere fruits |
| 10 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 11 | Had I been infected by my owl ? |
| 12 | Had I been told at his birth that he was not ‘ normal ’ I would probably have hoped he would have died before being taken home from hospital . |
| 13 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 14 | I am thinking about my spectacles lying on the desk before me as I write . |
| 15 | and the distance between us , I am thinking of you . |
| 16 | In the novels I am thinking of he attributes certain ideas to certain characters and utters them in the prevailing manner of the novel , while also submitting them to question within it . |
| 17 | I am thinking of our annual Parish Picnic , when everybody comes — babies in prams , children , young couples , older folk of all ages . |
| 18 | Yet , at best , this is unreliable , as when I am thinking of your beautiful wife while discussing with you the state of the nation . |
| 19 | ‘ I am thinking of someone else . |
| 20 | But it would seem to me that er there may be a marginal undersupply in Bradford on the basis of the current U D P and that is assuming that we we have the same balance between Bradford and between North Yorkshire as I am implying from my my particular figures . |
| 21 | I am confirmed in my conclusions by the terms of the Order of 1991 . |
| 22 | And look how white I am compared with you ; your tan still has n't faded completely . ’ |
| 23 | The rock is utterly dry , without seepage or dampness , and I am struck by its temporary appearance . |
| 24 | Reading my letter fifty-one years later , I am struck by its vigour , but I deplore a certain over-writing and perhaps a ‘ one-must-not attack Mr Eliot ’ tone . |
| 25 | I am honoured beyond my deserts . |
| 26 | ‘ I think you have many sources of life , ’ said Franca , ‘ but I am touched by your gratitude . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I am touched by your concern . |
| 28 | I am touched by his childlike affection and I half expect him to call Perry ‘ Uncle ’ . |
| 29 | Firstly , I am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four , five and thereafter , and then we 'll see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how that 's been done . |
| 30 | At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’ |