Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He is also told to , ‘ never cease your labour , your care and diligence , until you have done all that lieth in you , according to your bounden duty , to bring all such as are or shall be committed to your charge , unto … knowledge of God ’ .
2 Things to look out for are that all of the many Airworthiness Directives have been complied with .
3 should of been but they 're the wrong colour
4 Well she we to start with she went I think it might of been that cos we put Guy in it I think , that might have upset her .
5 could of been that , yeah
6 I do n't know but he could of been ill , he could , it could of been that he could n't take any more you know that but Margaret was terri terribly bitter about him Margaret not coming , but he could , he could n't stand it
7 my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten
8 and the other may or may not of been like I said just the fact I 'm shaking your hand , weapon he goes and does a frenzy test but the evidence on those three were , was n't very , was n't very conclusive and it
9 It may of been when between there
10 you know like it 's reversed they thought they , they , the words , so they must of been if that 's how it is
11 Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy .
12 but it could n't of been cos it came out last week
13 Yeah he would of been cos he was , he was , he was on about that , erm the
14 and it must of been because of that
15 Yeah , I thought of being that once but I would n't mind it in the wards , but I would n't want to be in the operating theatre , I do n't know why , the blood do n't put me off or anything , but
16 You know , I thought of being that once but I would n't mind it in the wards , but I would n't wan na be in the operating theatre .
17 He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation .
18 It was rather extensive at first and consequence of being and a necessity of taking in clothes of all the paupers who , with , which on a , on a waste of after a week or two the number of the workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers and the board were in , were in and then in which the boys got back , were , were a large was a cop was a copper at one end , after which the master dressed in an apron and assisted by one or two women and they ladled the gruel at meal times .
19 Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making .
20 He knew he was disappointing where the riding was concerned , although no one had actually told him so — the whole business of being as one with the animal he rode seemed to elude him .
21 I was pleased that he was more diplomatic afterwards instead of being as over the top as ever .
22 The thematic of historicity … has always been required by the determination of Being as presence …
23 Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the .
24 One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music .
25 One thing I can be certain of is that we have all been involved in rows , misunderstandings and quarrels .
26 The only thing you can be sure of is that US interest will always come first .
27 ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’
28 What we can be sure of is that Tangshan rates as no more than third in the cataclysmic league .
29 What they lose sight of is that the only possible justification of the expense of supporting these vast bureaucratic machines is to ensure that the necessary high standard of safety is established and maintained .
30 The first thing that that litany reminds us of is that when it came to success , in the immortal words of Mae West ( put into her mouth by scriptwriter Vincent Lawrence ) , goodness had nothing to do with it .
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