Example sentences of "the [noun pl] be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A mere allegation that the goods are his , without any attempt to show how they came on the premises , will not do , for ‘ to allow such a statement to be a justification for entering the soil of another , would be opening too wide a door to parties to attempt righting themselves without resorting to law , and would necessarily tend to breach of the peace . ’ |
| 32 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |
| 33 | Upstairs where the machines are it is terribly hot . |
| 34 | and , and what do you do about it , you know whe when they er y you know , I mean , I mean I think one of the things is you , you can start off erm you know very open and so on , but if you 're not careful y y you actually take on responsibility for them you know in a , in a way which is actually not helpful to them and is probably very bad for you |
| 35 | There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life . |
| 36 | The things is I got list everybody in the order in which they spoke . |
| 37 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 38 | All the memories are yours . ’ |
| 39 | Not killing the germs are they ? |
| 40 | So wh what was it In what way do you know , I mean is it the About the flats themselves , I mean are they are they the same , or have they gone What about the flats are they are they any different to w when you first came here ? |
| 41 | Never mind the regulations is it good enough ? |
| 42 | I think one of the problems is they had a break in and had quite a lot of gear stolen , and that 's why they want a concrete roof , so they ca n't er get in through the roof . |
| 43 | One of the problems is you ne , it 's alright saying something on the environment , you have to tighten up what it is you 're gon na do . |
| 44 | But one of the problems is you 're also reporting on year seven and eight then at |
| 45 | I was sorry for her , but in my opinion she had only herself to blame for being in such a mess , and I was smugly self-satisfied that the problems were hers and not mine . |
| 46 | Course one of the problems was you were checked in and checked out and if er you had n't come out there was a bit of a panic , Where is the person ? |
| 47 | Can we go on and that 's the bill for the tables is it ? |
| 48 | A MAGISTRATE set bailiffs on to two companies for being £26,000 behind with business rates — without realising the firms were HIS . |
| 49 | He was saying people going on the trains is it when you worked there rather than animals |
| 50 | He asked me whether I was a country person I asked what the qualifications were he said country born and bred , well I was born in Liverpool spent my childhood and early adolescence in rural Nottinghamshire , moved to Highfields , emigrated to the West Indies and now live in sub rural Blavey so I do n't know whether I qualify as a country person or not , but I 'd like to bet that I 've milked more cows by hand than he has if that 's any qualification . |
| 51 | You do n't have to pick your conversation for this , right , where 's the cats are they out ? |
| 52 | Have you checked the aways is it ? |
| 53 | Ten or eleven for lectures , erm that erm I I think that the is is quite a strong reason , well the other reason is at the weekends are we providing enough cover ? |
| 54 | Yeah but it 's not so nice for people who look through the windows is it ? |
| 55 | What I 've told the players is we 've got to go up and play as well as we can to beat a team like Blackburn . |
| 56 | It was you doing the games were you ? |
| 57 | They er di the strange thing about the critics is it 's a theatre town and being like er Nottingham has been made m much more so by the the money that 's been spent on the theatre as in Norwich . |
| 58 | They er d the strange thing about the critics is it 's a theatre town and being like er Nottingham has been made m much more so by the the money that 's been spent on the theatre as in Norwich . |
| 59 | They er d the strange thing about the critics is it 's a theatre town and being like er Nottingham has been made m much more so by the the money that 's been spent on the theatre as in Norwich . |
| 60 | They er d the strange thing about the critics is it 's a theatre town and being like er Nottingham has been made m much more so by the the money that 's been spent on the theatre as in Norwich . |