Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The idea is for them eventually to be restored completely and turned into a working museum , ’ said Mr Rawlinson . |
| 2 | Reallocations will not be made automatically if the taxpayer has asked for them not to be . |
| 3 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 4 | I long for them not to be there . |
| 5 | The Association says there was no reason for them not to be rented out . |
| 6 | DoubleClickSpeed=452 : Longest time allowed between two mouse clicks for them still to be counted as a double click . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ Is that what you really want , Amy , for me not to be here ? ’ |
| 8 | It is impossible for me not to be absolutely certain of it . |
| 9 | So I suppose one day sooner or later we 'll have to do this disgusting thing in order for me not to be barren , but I do n't look forward to it . |
| 10 | I was talking to David this afternoon , and he feels it 's too much of a coincidence for me not to be Lilian Parsons 's surviving twin . |
| 11 | This should be accurate enough for the findspot to be plotted on a map and for someone else to be able to find the location . |
| 12 | Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good |
| 13 | I can still remember standing brushing his hair and then shouting after him not to be long because his dinner would soon be ready . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Daft of me not to be able to remember who the girl was , ’ he said , ‘ but I tell you what I do remember . |
| 15 | He was ever anxious about the weather and , when he could think of nothing else to be anxious about , he became worried that he must have forgotten something important that should have been causing him worry . |
| 16 | The three of them soon to be part of one fusion , still at this time isolated from each other : three figures representing and summarising between them so much that was central to the complex notion of the Romantic Age . |
| 17 | He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition . |
| 18 | Nor is the main character of yours likely to be a detective , of any sort . |
| 19 | This thoroughly amiable writer had been assigned by Villard Books to present the U.S.P.G.A. Tour through the eyes of someone yet to be afflicted with a hardcore interest in the pro Tours . |
| 20 | An alternative method for dealing with vector elements of different lengths is for an increment value of one always to be used , but for the modifier field to be suitably manipulated when an element is accessed . |
| 21 | ‘ You realize there 's the best part of four million pounds in those contracts — most of it still to be paid to us . ’ |
| 22 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 23 | It is n't easy for any of us today to be sure that we are getting all the vitamins that we need . |
| 24 | yeah , but for you not to be able to bend your head |
| 25 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 26 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 27 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 28 | Dorigo did the baddest tackle and got away with it only to be booked later . |
| 29 | The first hole in one ever to be recorded at the fourth gave Jeff Sluman the early momentum and his 65 caught Lanny Wadkins , who has now been under par in seven consecutive rounds at Augusta . |
| 30 | In fact , the only film director who flourished within the Ealing set-up , by focusing upon the studio 's evasions and working sufficiently within the grain for his deviations from it not to be too embarrassingly apparent , was Alexander Mackendrick . |