Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social worker must believe the best results for everyone are achieved when both parties have an equal right to be heard . |
| 2 | The plot of ‘ Great Expectations ’ is a very concentrated one , where everything and everyone are linked in the same plot . |
| 3 | Has everyone been encouraged or allowed to speak ? |
| 4 | ‘ Has everyone been briefed ? ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , it 's the erm , the one Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken . |
| 6 | Well , I think that a few words from me are called for , as you say . ’ |
| 7 | The advantages that skill and intelligence once gave me are nullified by shop bought electronics and an ’ Ever Ready ’ Power Pack . |
| 8 | All my pleasures will be solitary , even when I happen to be in company ; I shall not be exhilarated simply because the people around me are enjoying themselves , nor depressed because they are in low spirits . |
| 9 | For example , the stressed housewife may take rights 3 and 7 and decide that : ‘ I have the right to suggest to my elderly mother-in-law that she enquire about the possibility of a home-help , as the demands she is making on me are wearing me out ’ . |
| 10 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 11 | Because , tomorrow … tomorrow , head , you and me are leaving . |
| 12 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 13 | A year or two later , expanding on her analysis , Iris Murdoch dubbed the journalistic novel ‘ loose and cheerful ’ , adding gaily that she was inclined to start writing a novel in the hope that ‘ a lot of people who are not me are going to come into existence in some wonderful way ’ — though frustrated , sometimes , by the prevailing theoretical power of her own philosophical mind . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm just pleased I had the idea and that anglers with a lot more skill than me are showing what can be done with it , ’ he said modestly . |
| 15 | He , I tell you want he does n't do , I should n't let you hear , but , when he , when him and me are arguing when we were younger , and me dad used to wind Colin up , and wind me up , and I 'd get madder and madder , and me dad used to love it . |
| 16 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
| 17 | Lurking in unfamiliar corners of your class-divided towns , men like me are gon na smash your fortunate houses down . |
| 18 | Mummy me are gon na go in there |
| 19 | Oh mum me do it , me are gon na do that and that in a minute |
| 20 | Dad erm her and are gon na go there and you and me are gon na |
| 21 | There 's me been putting sugar in his Ovaltine for the last fifty years . |
| 22 | ‘ And how long has this news about me been known , Parson Tringham ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ What would have been Britain 's level of development had millions of them been put to work as slaves outside of their homeland over a period of four centuries ? ’ asks Guyanese professor of history Walter Rodney . |
| 24 | There 's a lot of them been closed since then . |
| 25 | A huge cast of characters — each of whom are given intermeshing chapters to narrate the US perspective on the mess and sacrifice of World War Two — is flung out all over the globe . |
| 26 | The Law Society acts through its Council which is composed of 70 solicitors , 56 of whom are elected by members of the Society with the remaining 14 being elected by the Council itself . |
| 27 | The tightness of the circle extends to professional staff at the Palace too , all of whom are appointed on personal recommendation . |
| 28 | The festival is the brainchild of performer , director and playwright Cordelia Ditton and freelance arts administrator Dominic D'Angelo , both of whom are determined that the overall tone will be celebratory and upbeat . |
| 29 | We have taken the industry as being the member firms of The Scotch Whisky Association ( SWA ) , all of whom are engaged in distilling , maturation and warehousing or blending . |
| 30 | the paper and this report introduces the draft version of the highly transportation from it with consultation of organization down in the business , some whom are listed in section two |