Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm kind of emotionally retarded … but basically I 've just written about things how I 've felt about them , myself , emotionally . |
| 2 | They are but I 'm just I mean y'know it 's cos it 's not really correlation yet so I 'm sort of u that 's why I 've put quotes round association . |
| 3 | for dinner and dinner parties so I 'm sort of frantically trying to cut down , and then , you know , one dinner party and then I put it |
| 4 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 5 | So you 're sort of thinking at different levels . |
| 6 | So you 're sort of right in a way that it 's two sine squared X but this wrong . |
| 7 | So you were sort of head to tail ? |
| 8 | ‘ All Ah 'm askin' from ye is the man 's present whereabouts . ’ |
| 9 | Inside she was aflood with seas of flame . |
| 10 | So we 're sort of both playing two sides against the middle . |
| 11 | So we were sort of wondering , you know , where |
| 12 | Or perhaps there are schemes for the disabled to rent computers at lower rates ? |
| 13 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean , perhaps there are modes of reflection which have become luxuries , ideas we dare not frame , we dare not permit ourselves — ’ |
| 15 | According to this analysis , [ 25 ] is equivalent in import to [ 27 ] : Perhaps there are contexts in which a speaker of [ 25 ] would intend nothing more than this . |
| 16 | Perhaps there are clues in the archetype of the Great Mother ; we must bear in mind , though , that we can not go back to some primitive image of the priestess , but must give it life and meaning in today 's terms . |
| 17 | Perhaps there are links of which you are unaware . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps there 's hope for me yet , he thought as he unrolled the fillet on the cutting board . |
| 19 | I wondered which had come first , the chill and disenchantment of her worldly sophistication , or the lack of warmth in her son : and perhaps there was ice in both of them , and the one had reinforced the other . |
| 20 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 21 | Perhaps there was trouble with the gaming table ? |
| 22 | Suddenly there was work for everybody and the deaf community took full advantage of this change of climate , as reported in the 1944 annual report : The effect of the war on industry has given the deaf and dumb opportunities such as they had never enjoyed for many years and it is with great pleasure that the committee places on record the excellent work the deaf Have done . |
| 23 | Suddenly there was competition for capital , and interest rates rose . |
| 24 | Suddenly there was movement in the hallway ; whispering voices and soft footsteps . |
| 25 | Suddenly there was anger in his voice . |
| 26 | Before she could scream a damp rag had been clamped over her mouth , and suddenly there was pain behind her eyes and all was darkness . |
| 27 | Suddenly there was fear in his eyes . |
| 28 | Naturally there are signs of omission , such as arguments of which only one side is presented . |
| 29 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 30 | By 8.00am there was 16ft of water in the hold which the pumps could not reduce . |