Example sentences of "[no cls] and [pers pn] be a " in BNC.

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1 Well he di he did a video a and it 's a wonder it were n't banned !
2 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 .
3 Erm now it 's my spot er and it 's a quality promise .
4 I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today .
5 Er and it 's a force commitment it is n't I mean short of saving up over a period of years which we are not allowed to do
6 Er and she said yes and er er and it was a wedding shop
7 In China huge numbers of elderly people practise Tai Chi and it is a joy to watch the grace and beauty of old age still fluid and in motion .
8 Well I 'm , I 'm easy , I mean the thickish cord erm , washes ni , they wear better I think the thickish cord but I mean erm and they 're a bit warmer , but if you shop about usually you can get them erm the same price as the needlecord I 'll leave that with you , right .
9 erm and hers were a quarter of the odds , plus she lost her stake on the part that was betting on them to win .
10 Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well
11 erm we have to continually fight , but to say we have to fight as well for our children and that is , in many ways , you know , the odds start off being stacked against us in my view erm and it is a continual battle .
12 Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time .
13 Erm and it 's a birthday issue and and a quite an important one for setting up for the Euros and the mail action .
14 Erm and it 's a shame .
15 They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do .
16 I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier .
17 There was a man , totally unconnected with the event I think , running away from a flaming van in Horseguards Parade erm and it was a wonderful picture opportunity for the world 's press to carry , but I do think that memories are short from this .
18 And I think it 's a re and it 's a bit er
19 and i and it 's a very fine clay when it 's dry .
20 Australian Aborigines are very direct about this so they , so they do expect something back for the initiation an and it 's a kind of reciprocal thing where okay , you initiate me and I 'll put up with all this crap from you , but you know , you give me a wife , you 've got daughters I want a wife and er if I do n't get it , there 's gon na be real trouble and this is how the system works .
21 I mean the w the pelican crossing case started with , when I was a councillor before nineteen eighty eight an and it 's a difficult one to detect but if you have n't occasionally come back late at night and there 's no traffic that you can spot it because no vehicle d detect vehicles when there are n't any .
22 No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed .
23 He said : ‘ I am still not 100 per cent and it was a bit of a gamble playing against Ipswich , but it paid off . ’
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