Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pers pn] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many people birds become an obsession — but for most they are but one part of the whole countryside experience . |
| 2 | The interest of how things are resides in their figuration , discernible and expressible by the deeper realist , of how things will be only in so far as that futurity is the truth and the end of how they are and always have been . |
| 3 | We have to produce some account of how it is that a belief can achieve this status and play this special role . |
| 4 | Where you think that one of your disbursements is likely to be challenged you should get the expert to produce a breakdown of how it was that the fees came to be charged , whether on a fixed rate basis or an hourly charge basis , and this should be available to disclose to the opposition and to be used on taxation . |
| 5 | Such an object is not so very different from a table or a cow , concerning which I can have similar information of where they are and what they are doing . |
| 6 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 7 | I mean Preston is about twenty miles south of er where we are but I know that there are gardens north of where we are that do grow good peaches but what they do they cover the er plants during the early spring round about February time and they cover it with very fine ne net , that 's all they need to do with it just cover it up when the flowers are out , make sure that they lift it off every now and again to do the pollinating , get them set and then when the frosts have gone take the net off . |
| 8 | On the contrary , the study of the humanities is essential to society as a whole , since ‘ the humanities are concerned with a truthful understanding of where we are and where we come from ’ . |
| 9 | A Diocesan Assembly is the coming together of the whole Diocesan family to take stock of where we are and to plan our next step . |
| 10 | You 're not sure of of where it is that you feel you might . |
| 11 | In the gasping aftermath ? he had no idea of where he was nor how much noise he had made . |
| 12 | He looked lost and nervous , as though he was unsure of where he was or why he had bothered to come . |
| 13 | After a seemingly timeless period , during which he drifted in and out of consciousness , he became gradually aware of where he was and what had happened . |
| 14 | I lose track of where I am and all I know is that my baby is on the other side of the world . |
| 15 | I became conscious of where I was and what I was doing so I quickly stood up and dried my eyes . |
| 16 | And please , if you have not already done so , keep us informed of where you are and what you are doing now . |
| 17 | She remained conscious , but became increasingly disorientated , losing all awareness of where she was or what was happening to her . |
| 18 | For company , and a reminder of where she was and how much she had to do , she switched on the radio , let the cat out , filled the kettle and began to plan her morning 's round of visiting . |
| 19 | The heat of humiliation surged to the surface of her skin as she became conscious of where she was and what she was doing , kneeling there still bare-breasted , her attitude one of despair and defeat . |
| 20 | Travis 's husky question brought her to realisation of where she was and with whom . |
| 21 | I shall isolate six points of difference that seem to me important to our appreciation of why it is that children normally find writing difficult . |
| 22 | The appearance of a weaning-trauma in early agricultural cultures explains the paradox of why it is that a loss of the ideal mother — that is , a frustration — leads to an over-involvement with her . |
| 23 | The future must take care of when it was that the appellant would be released . |
| 24 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 25 | And you ca n't get too comfortable with where you are because you could be a nobody tomorrow . |
| 26 | I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place . |
| 27 | And from here it was but a step to suggesting that women did not take the whole thing seriously as a profession . |
| 28 | From there it was but a small step to parliamentary representation : |
| 29 | Rule off from where you were before I want you to get some information down about our solar system . |
| 30 | Hugh 's mother , climbing out of her taxi with a zip bag full of baby clothes , heard the laughter and wondered if she should contact Hugh in wherever it was and suggest that he came home . |