Example sentences of "[verb] be " in BNC.
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| 61 | Similarly , letters received are filed for the same purpose . |
| 62 | The pulses received are counted by the driving software and give a direct reading of the cursor 's position on the screen . |
| 63 | Almost all grants received are regarded for tax purposes as reducing expenses incurred , or reducing the cost of the development in question for the purposes of calculating capital allowances . |
| 64 | The vendor should insist that monies received are used to satisfy the oldest liabilities first . |
| 65 | Thus , although the monies received are capital in nature they are deemed to be income for the purposes of giving the taxpayer deductions and reliefs and they are charged under Case VI of Schedule D. Thus , for instance , the remittance basis would not be applicable although there is no reason why general principles should not be applicable so that income arising overseas and received by a non-resident would not be chargeable under general principles whilst income arising in the United Kingdom could be chargeable under general principles regardless of who it is paid to . |
| 66 | He might find the ladies behind the counter ‘ large and ugly ’ ( his words ) , but most chippies I 've frequented are family owned and the service comes with a smile , even if the figure is rather rotund . |
| 67 | You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me . |
| 68 | She would 've been all fat there once , and a baby growing inside of her . |
| 69 | I rub my face quick so she do n't see I 've been crying . |
| 70 | It 's my fault really , cos the window should 've been open . |
| 71 | I should 've said that to Marie — I reckon that would 've been OK . |
| 72 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 73 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 74 | Drivers must 've been celebrating too . |
| 75 | ‘ You must 've been crazy ! ’ she told herself . |
| 76 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 77 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 78 | Betinna said , ‘ I hear you 've been a hero . ’ |
| 79 | ‘ Should 've been you , ’ Hoomey said . |
| 80 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 81 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 82 | Oh , we 'd 've been tête a tête yet |
| 83 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 84 | ‘ 'Ll 've been emptied . ’ |
| 85 | I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda ! |
| 86 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 87 | I said , ‘ What I told you before — you were dreaming , you must 've been dreaming , you know . |
| 88 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 89 | ‘ Pa would 've been livid with me for getting pregnant , and he would n't want his precious fiddle going to pay for anything to do with it . ’ |
| 90 | ‘ It should 've been with the batch of papers given . |