Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns out that if I choose a direction and look at the electron 's spin in relation to that direction then either its axis of rotation points along that direction or it is wholly in the reverse direction . |
| 2 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 3 | It 's been — delightful , and either you are a very good actress or you are genuinely innocent of guile . |
| 4 | Edward and Wallace Simpson , because Edward abdicated in order to marry a divorced American and so they then went to live in exile and he was eventually , after he died he was buried in Britain , but Wallace Simpson , or the Duchess of Windsor or as she then was |
| 5 | I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more . |
| 6 | Well the fact that we 've got three there , there there that 's how many we got on that card and we were quite happy about that . |
| 7 | so he looks at the buyer 's guide , business card and it 's thoroughly . |
| 8 | There are , however , many strands within this protestantism and they are frequently conflicting . |
| 9 | His first love was association football and he was highly regarded within that game both as a player and an administrator . |
| 10 | It has been calculated that , at some point in her life , one woman in five will be infected with this parasite and it is also generally accepted that the organism is almost exclusively sexually transmitted . |
| 11 | This paradoxical situation arose notwithstanding great endeavours to retain the strong links between physical and human geography and it was often thought ( e.g. Fisher , 1970 ) that a revival of the regional approach still offered the only method of recementing the two parts of the subject . |
| 12 | He knew what was happening in the boathouse and it was too ordinary to convert into anything exciting . |
| 13 | 2.35 In claims for the death of an infant child there is rarely any actual dependency but there might be prospective loss and it is well established that prospective loss is sufficient to found a claim by the parents . |
| 14 | I do n't think I 'm the only volunteer who 's ashamed of their early attitude to AIDS and I 'm only glad that we had the sense , collectively , to listen to reason before the calls began . |
| 15 | Judge Kenneth Richardson told him : ‘ You have been convicted of a shocking murder and it is only by sheer luck that it was not two . ’ |
| 16 | The park has been used regularly for 30 years by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and it is also home to Middlesbrough rugby and cricket clubs . |
| 17 | I was talking to someone who knows a Leeds solicitor who is involved with the club and he was allegedly letting this colleague in on some inside info . |
| 18 | ‘ Eleven years later it was like a dream come true when I played my first game for the club and he was still in goal . |
| 19 | She 's not just another trollop and she 's obviously concerned about her father . ’ |
| 20 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 21 | Er er he tried one time , he 'd got his daddy 's photograph and he was actually trying to draw his father from the photograph |
| 22 | We did n't have the finances to run a proper test programme and we were just falling behind the other teams . |
| 23 | Even the government 's limited plans for post-war intervention aroused their opposition and they were far more opposed to the far-reaching controls advocated by Beveridge . |
| 24 | Being Labour 's money man is never easy , even when the party is still in opposition and you are as persuasive as Mr Smith . |
| 25 | Just before the war about a hundred thousand passengers flew from Britain to the Continent and they were mostly businessmen , not tourists . |
| 26 | A disquieting picture of the girl in the basement came into Ianthe 's mind and she was almost shocked to realise that she did not like to think of her looking after John . |
| 27 | Visions of heavy counselling sessions come to mind and it is often felt that the grieving person must be helped to ‘ come to terms with it ’ , whatever ‘ it ’ might be . |
| 28 | But if the Government keeps changing its mind and it 's then it really is |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll have to forgive me , Chief Inspector , I 've got a one-track mind and I 'm here only to locate the man called Colt , the Englishman who murdered an Agency man in Athens . ’ , |
| 30 | One of the men voiced his somewhat belated fear and it was immediately taken up by others . |