Example sentences of "be [adj] and [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have erm an absolute dictatorship , in which the values of the dictator are that and nobody asks anybody else anything about it . |
| 2 | His institute 's estimates of the country 's current economic level relative to Western Europe are high and he concludes from this that economic reform can be based largely on domestic resources . |
| 3 | Xu 's ingredients are fresh and he uses just one board |
| 4 | However , the research findings have not always been consistent and there has been controversy over their significance . |
| 5 | Surely marriage and prostitution are separate and it insults marriage to infer that they thrive on one another ? |
| 6 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 7 | People know this , they identify with this , they recognise that you 're back-tracking and it looks as though your ke case is hereby weakened . |
| 8 | They 're unique and what makes them unique is that they do not know it . ’ |
| 9 | If you 're ill and somebody says are you getting better , you say ‘ Well , no , I feel worse today ’ . |
| 10 | When we 're unhappy and nothing seems to be turning out right , it 's tempting to despair — to feel as though God is abandoning us . |
| 11 | He 's got a musical test which says do n't they 're tired they 're tired and then he said the pig says I 'm not and then the people said Oh dear and then he said I 'm hungry and then they said they 're hungry and he says I 'm not and he 's sleepy . |
| 12 | You 're busy and what comes through ? |
| 13 | It is recognised in planning circles that planning applications for fish and chip shops are contentious and it has been said that whilst ‘ Joe Public wants hot food shops he does not want them near him and he is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house ’ . |
| 14 | The learning process from this project has been invaluable and it 's allowed Save The Children to move forward in several other countries . |
| 15 | Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time . |
| 16 | Like the insect , its span has been short and it has already been superseded by the Double Whammy campaign . |
| 17 | I mean she 's she 's been up and been busy and she 's had a warm bath and she 's had a bottle of |
| 18 | Its moisturising formula is ideal for natural curls or for permed hair as both hair types tend to be dry and it costs £1.19 for a 200ml bottle . |
| 19 | He does n't like to be seen with mum and dad , but when I 'm poorly and he takes me out in the wheelchair , he does n't mind who he meets and he says : ‘ Hi fellas , this is my mum . ’ |
| 20 | Either the man she is with is not ready for a long-term commitment , he may be violent and she wants to keep him away from the child . |
| 21 | To be effective , an innovation has to be simple and it has to be focused . |
| 22 | Some of the forty-three police units now have visibly autocratic chief officers who consistently spell out their public accountability yet pursue very personal perceptions of what they consider to be disorderly and what needs to be controlled , and such constructions of reality generate systems which enforce power differently from force to force . |
| 23 | Contemporaries believed that Edward was persuaded to revive his claim in 1337 by Robert of Artois who , according to a story which may well be apocryphal and which has attracted widely differing interpretations , placed a heron before the king at a banquet . |
| 24 | Mean Malcolm whistles at him , an old lady helps him over the road , teacher expects his writing to be tidy and he has to read the part of the spineless Rapunzel . |
| 25 | In other words , publishing commitments have to be substantial and it does not take much to sap confidence when the risk is so high . |
| 26 | She 's got no practice ones for the two , the other two she 's got to do which are obviously going to be harder and she 's got no idea , not , well she 's got the guidelines but no real paper to sit and look at . |
| 27 | ‘ Although I 'm champion and it 's been a wonderful year I feel I ca n't truly call myself the title holder until I beat Joey on the roads . ’ |
| 28 | All statements of fact and information contained or referred to in the Disclosure Letter are true and complete and are not misleading in any respect , all statements of opinion therein have been made after due and careful enquiry and are reasonably believed to be correct and nothing has been omitted from the Disclosure Letter which renders any of such matters misleading . |
| 29 | Miller liked his ground cover to be permanent and he has not included ‘ any of the undershrubs , which are of short duration , such as Southernwood , Rosemary , Lavender , Lavender Cotton , etc. because whenever these decay , they occasion gaps in the plantation . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah cos he realise I mean , he often says oh well , you know , she made me turn against my family and be horrible and he says I have n't had time , he says I realise how wrong I was . |