Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pers pn] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds that it is nature 's intention , for the purposes of generation , that some foetuses should turn out female . |
| 2 | Oh , looks like it 's coffee break time — again . |
| 3 | My desk now looks like it 's Christmas . |
| 4 | No , no he looks like he 's trigger happy boy . |
| 5 | ‘ At the end of the day , who cares if they 're boogie boarding off Newquay or riding big waves in Scarborough ? |
| 6 | At the end of the day , who cares if they 're boogie boarding off Newquay or riding big waves in Scarborough ? |
| 7 | He wonders whether it is time to head back to the city with its purified air , sweet , crystal water and groomed inhabitants . |
| 8 | First of all they say that if she thinks that they 're waxworks she should pay , and then they say that if she thinks that they are real , she should be talking to them . |
| 9 | Dr Dowling thinks that it is time that we stopped ‘ tinkering at the edges of the problem ’ of the preregistration year and totally rethought our responses to it . |
| 10 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 11 | The argument goes that it is women who are in fact doing all the reproducing of labour power and servicing other people 's escapes . |
| 12 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper of his client as ‘ an important , refined , knowledgeable collector ’ , he says that it is Lloyd Webber 's intention to ‘ buy only world-class art already in Britain with the aim of keeping it here ’ . |
| 13 | Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet . |
| 14 | Taking an existentialist approach , he says that it is God who delivers us into freedom , which is not something which we can accomplish for ourselves . |
| 15 | He says that it 's part of the town 's heritage . |
| 16 | He says that it 's rubbish — the recession is n't over , and anyone can see this just by looking at the number of failed businesses . |
| 17 | He says that it 's rubbish — the recession is n't over , and anyone can see this just by looking at the number of failed businesses . |
| 18 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 19 | The relatives of both Leofsige , abbot of Ely from 1029 to 1044 , and of Ælfwine , bishop of Elmham in Cnut 's reign , granted estates in Norfolk , Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to Ely when their sons entered the monastery , and the Liber Eliensis says that it was Leofsige 's own policy to accept no monk who was not well-educated and of good birth , so that the church might be enriched by liberality . |
| 20 | But she says that she 's years ago she used to put an onion in her ear or something . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's a guy on the phone says that he 's Linford Christie , the European Indoor athletics ’ champion , and he badly needs help . ’ |
| 22 | He says that he 's nt been offered a grant , and the case has been refered to higher officials . |
| 23 | Well it all depends if it 's value for money because we er , we fe we felt that it 's only one day . |
| 24 | Well it just depends if it 's market day she goes to market stays up till two or three in afternoon and then goes to sleep for six about six hours . |
| 25 | It depends whether they 're ASCII input or whether they 're binary input format . |
| 26 | Erm de depends whether it 's path or not . |
| 27 | Once it becomes night what happens ? what happens when it 's night ? |
| 28 | Tracks include It Only Hurts When It 's Love , Baby I 'm In Heaven and How Can I Say Goodbye ? |
| 29 | I 'm gon na get her a dolly which you push his left arm and his , he cries and he 's teeth grow or something . |
| 30 | We 're just saying oh well we 'll see how it goes and we 're sort of putting it down whereas I suppose we should hit them straight away . |