Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 58% of subjects believed that people with TB should be quarantined , and 63% perceived TB as a severe social stigma , endorsing the item ‘ if you have TB no-one wants to be around you , even people you thought were your friends ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 4 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 5 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 6 | OF COURSE someone had to be blamed for the Grand National that never was . |
| 7 | ‘ This is the kind of acting part I want to be offered in future . |
| 8 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 9 | But it is so poorly executed , muddled in its narrative and just plain old-fashioned dull that the screening I went to was soon humming with critical snores . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that I feel strongly about this issue , I remain open-minded and by seeing as much as is attainable my ideas will develop and so determine the kind of practitioner I hope to be . |
| 11 | This means that any of those experiments in plant association which prove to be unsuccessful can be scrapped without too many regrets . |
| 12 | To pacify the law and order lobby , a distinct difference was recognised , between property offences ( 95 per cent of all crime ) , viewed as amenable to punishment in the community , and crimes of violence which need to be punished more severely in order to protect the public . |
| 13 | Mr Carey said : ‘ We submitted a bid which tried to be clear about the problems , and to arrive at a view of what is practicable , which disturbs MPs as little as possible , while giving the broadcasters what they want . |
| 14 | This was followed by the Harpers & Queen Grand Prix which proved to be another success for Markus Tecklenborg this time riding Franklin . |
| 15 | This is the Japanese giant 's exhaustively researched and meticulously executed ‘ best shot ’ at luxury saloon design — a car which seeks to be the best , and very nearly succeeds . |
| 16 | The ‘ Crossroads ’ experiment presented a mentally handicapped child within the dimensions of a programme which purports to be about real people and real life , and to explore some of the issues raised in having such a child . |
| 17 | The former Young Pretender himself lived to be 67 , and on his death , in Rome on 31 January 1788 , his brother Henry began to call himself Henry IX . |
| 18 | We are left only with the memory of fleeting colours , perhaps a small note-group which appears to be half-familiar ( like something we have heard before ) , or some spectacular moment like the boom of a gong . |
| 19 | Auditors checking Department of Energy accounts have discovered that the ministry wrote off £9.54 million spent on research which had to be cancelled following nuclear research cuts and plans for electricity privatisation . |
| 20 | Already two-thirds of children with tumours can be cured ; there is still a great deal of research which remains to be done . |
| 21 | Aromatic bathing and massage became a nightly ritual which had to be carried out before Owen would go to bed . |
| 22 | There may be a number of complex reasons for one simple fault which need to be fully identified . |
| 23 | Much of the market uncertainty which has to be organizationally buffered in the West is displaced outside the organization in Japan . |
| 24 | Israeli officials estimated that this figure would increase dramatically in 1990 , an appraisal which appeared to be based partly on persistent reports of a threat from anti-Semitic groups to the safety of Jews in the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | He may also have had expensive tools or special equipment of some kind , or a car or boat which has to be sold . |
| 26 | There is a problem with pollution with visual intrusion and noise intrusion which needs to be solved and this goes a long way towards solving it . |
| 27 | As you will have picked up , in my opinion fundamentalism is a dangerous enemy which has to be attacked at the level of the mind and of the heart . |
| 28 | It is one of those forms of crime which appear to be ‘ catching ’ , as a disease is communicated from one country to another and one continent to another , like the importation of smallpox from India into London . |
| 29 | Ragusa was seen as a rival which had to be subdued and brought under Venetian control . |
| 30 | Although there was almost unanimous praise of Eliot 's poetic or sheerly musical abilities ( which in any case had their roots deep in his American experience ) , there was a certain distrust of the religious sensibility which seemed to be expressed in the sequence . |