Example sentences of "be [adj] and [indef pn] " 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 | When you speak on the C.B. you do n't use your name you have a handle you can make your own handle usually to do with something you are interested and one you do n't think any one else has . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Other people would hate that , it 's too restricting and er er and again it is , if you think about it , because if you 've got a , a regular date and you 're retired and something nice and exciting comes up , and that 's right in the middle of your , it bashes into your regular date , so then you have to say do I go or do I do or , or do n't I ? |
| 5 | If you 're ill and somebody says are you getting better , you say ‘ Well , no , I feel worse today ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | they 're conscientious and everything but the a child 's painting is seen ju a bit of scrap paper ! |
| 8 | Officers say prosecutions are likely and anyone found guilty under the Video Recordings Act faces fines of up to twenty thousand pounds per tape . |
| 9 | ‘ Know that you are human and nothing more , ’ might express the spirit of this inscription . |
| 10 | Just under 4 in 10 women aged 65 or over are married and one half are widowed . |
| 11 | The seeds , he says ‘ are flat and one half of a beautiful red colour and the other half of a deep black … the flowers have not yet appeared in England , but from a painting done from the plant in the country , they seem to be very beautiful . ’ |
| 12 | He had been angry and nothing more . |
| 13 | The people had stayed , said what a wonderful game it had been , the players and everybody else are happy and everybody 's now thinking about Tuesday night and of course , the short trip down the A four twenty to Swindon . |
| 14 | If two monads coincided in all their attributes , then they would be indistinguishable and one could not properly speak of " two " monads . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not a question of having money in the bank , the development programme must be visible and something that , ’ he went on . |
| 16 | One might be means-testing and one might be privatising ’ may well be justified . |
| 17 | So I 'll meet you tomorrow at Victoria , then , and do n't worry — I wo n't be late and everything will be in order . |
| 18 | But if I can get it to Andernesse somehow , she thought , then surely it 'll be safe and everything will stop … ’ |
| 19 | Yet a statement of national intent concerning the learnings planned and provided for a nation 's youth is surely a document which should be available and one which needs to be open to public criticism . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | By the time England won another Test they had played a further thirty , plus two that were rain-restricted and one washed out altogether . |
| 22 | The North West Airlines planes and the cargo trucks were empty and nobody was hurt . |
| 23 | The dormitories were empty and nothing stirred in the main corridor . |
| 24 | Neighbours projects being honest and everything has a happy ending . |
| 25 | Although long-lasting and generally reliable , their musical shortcomings were obvious and none have been manufactured since 1980 , although they are still in use in a few churches . |
| 26 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 27 | These facts were undisputed and one might have supposed the case to be a perfectly simple and straightforward one . |
| 28 | I mean I could n't have , what with being sick and everything , but still I would have liked to tell everyone that I was pregnant . |
| 29 | she kept running out of the room and being sick and everything so I thought |
| 30 | About them being late and everything else . |