Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If someone is present who does n't enjoy speaking or is prominent through being an outsider , on a much lower level , or even a different gender from everyone else , make sure they get included . |
| 32 | It appears they did ( we learn later , 11 , 102 ) , but the next time they think someone is Saruman it is Gandalf . |
| 33 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 34 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 35 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 36 | Miss Jeanette told Teesside Crown Court : ‘ As a policeman came across Darren said ‘ If he asks where I was say I was with you . ’ ’ |
| 37 | I was suspect they the same problem with France and Germany . |
| 38 | ‘ I was askin' yer mother , ’ he said , ‘ but she 's — ‘ |
| 39 | No I was trainee you you were teaching . |
| 40 | ‘ If I was Empress I would be a constitutional Empress only , ’ said Pakeezah , drawing herself up . |
| 41 | Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there . |
| 42 | But theirs are reasons which apply to them and which do not depend on , i.e. are not meant to reflect , reasons which apply to their subjects . |
| 43 | Then one must distinguish between " straights " which are bonds which just earn interest until maturity and " convertibles " which are bonds which give the holder the right to convert , on specified terms , into another security , usually the equity of the issuing company . |
| 44 | Then one must distinguish between " straights " which are bonds which just earn interest until maturity and " convertibles " which are bonds which give the holder the right to convert , on specified terms , into another security , usually the equity of the issuing company . |
| 45 | I learnt something about myself , I learnt a little bit about how members of the class view me , certain physical characteristics which are habits which I try to stop . |
| 46 | And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else . |
| 47 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 48 | Top left represents SQL life cycle tools , which are tools which have has been delivering for the last three years which address each of the needs of the entire project life cycle . |
| 49 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 50 | Central to these were the sterling balances which were liabilities which had accrued during the war largely to poorer countries within the Commonwealth . |
| 51 | I missed out at geography , which I loved , English Lit , French , art and maths , all of which were subjects I enjoyed . |
| 52 | The only difference they were very well written but they were signed you know Mohammed and which were names I used to go there . |
| 53 | He points to Derrida s fascination with fourfold elements , evident in his deconstruction of the Hegelian triad — thesis , antithesis , synthesis — to add a fourth element , which is deconstruction itself . |
| 54 | Roller looms take the weaving process one step further with a development which is simplicity itself . |
| 55 | whereas other parts they have gone into more detail which is ones they 've gone into more details with |
| 56 | Yet the January , February , March the temperature is high which is temperature I ca n't tell by looking at that , which one 's temperature and which one 's rainfall . |
| 57 | Erm and then the next one after that is is I know is March the fifteenth which is Adrian who 's the er woodworker . |
| 58 | Litter is left on the slope , much of which is plastic which will never breakdown , but will blow around the mountainside for many years . |
| 59 | Evidence of the Host 's appearance is said to be the red crotal ( lichen ) stain found on rocks the morning after a heavy frost , which is blood they have spilled during their aerial spats . |
| 60 | Even when as we 've done here we 've got which is timber which is cut like the slices of a cake from the outer rim to the centre . |