Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cecilia was about to let herself in when the young woman called Alice , who had been there when she heard the bomb go off , opened the door to her . |
| 32 | And yet she knew it had been there when she closed the book and put it back on the shelf . |
| 33 | It was lucky you were together when you found the bodies . |
| 34 | So that you 're , in other words you either , you 're , by having the money back in your hand you are then restored to the position you were in before you bought the goods in the first place . |
| 35 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 36 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 37 | ‘ We are pretty certain Watson just mugged because they were there and he saw the chance of easy pickings without much danger of violence being offered back to him , ’ said a policeman . |
| 38 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 39 | My hon. Friend is right that we have the most generous system in the developed world for supporting students . |
| 40 | ‘ It 's only since we saw the video that we found out whose boot it was . |
| 41 | that 's only cos I use the keys |
| 42 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 43 | But she said she does n't need them for Monday because it 's only when she takes the tests she gets in a panic not when she 's she said she can do it in the practice classes . |
| 44 | I suppose that it 's only when you have the financial means that you get the treatment everyone deserves . |
| 45 | He reckons it 's only because he loves the world and the people he knows that he hates the prevailing ‘ world order ’ . |
| 46 | It 's basically that we feel the group has to be thrown into different circumstances if it 's going to be stimulated , if it 's going to change . |
| 47 | It is only after you have the key words on paper that you can begin to structure them . |
| 48 | So it is only if he admits the strength of the argument from error that he can think he is getting anywhere by refuting PC k . |
| 49 | It 's best if he arranges the transport cos he knows what 's there . |
| 50 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee . |
| 51 | However , our real weakness is not that we lack the potential , but that we lack the will to act . |
| 52 | In fact what young children demand of us is not that we dilute the work , but that we make it more exciting , more tightly focused . |
| 53 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 54 | ( Smart , 1959 ; Armstrong , 1968 , 1980 ; Lewis , 1966 , 1972 ) What is distinctive about this view is not that it takes the episodes of consciousness to stand in such causal relations . |
| 55 | It is not until he sees the motto ‘ Quit you like men ’ on the Vallens tombs in Flavonia that ‘ the burden of fear and foreboding slipped from him ’ and he sees the task before him not as that of a king struggling after an impossible ideal but as that of a man playing a man 's part : |
| 56 | Monica will be alright she know 's what she 's doing , it 's just whether she has the time to do it , she would liked it if we had done this before Christmas , so that while you were away John |
| 57 | It 's just that we thought the programme might benefit from a new face . |
| 58 | It 's just that we feel the human body can take so much and the English season is a long and punishing one as it it . |
| 59 | It 's just that she likes the odd nip . |
| 60 | It 's just that I prefer the other rooms . ’ |