Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Stone floor panels dating from 883–612BC , uncovered in the Assyrian royal palaces at Nimrud , Balawat and Nineveh , contain patterns that are generally accepted as carpet designs ; thee are also a number of reliefs and carvings showing men carrying what can only be tapestries or rugs .
2 Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ?
3 But I want really , in conclusion , to jump straight to the central part of the poem in which the ways of God to man , got to me are most clearly justification 's most clearly involved , and that is the actual process of the fall .
4 People who think like me are simply protesting against the Government 's action in a perfectly legitimate way — we think they 're wrong to attack Egypt and we want to stop them before any further damage is done .
5 By then Keenan and me are pretty drunk ; and they keep stealing our bottle from the dressing room , so we 'd go across the street and get another jug .
6 VOTERS like me are surely one of the reasons why the Conservative Party was returned to power .
7 I notice , however , that your reasons for not sleeping with me are purely practical .
8 There is the unity of the moment : different tactile and proprioceptive sensations amount to a coherent body image ; different visual sensations cohere to a visual field ; and sensations from different modalities converge to a general sensory field , an organized moment-by-moment presence of a world , so that the feeling in my hand as I hold a stone , the sight of the sea and the sound of the seagull behind me are all not merely present but co-present .
9 By this time Keenan and me are really drunk and I said , ‘ Well , what are we waiting for ? ’ and we go over .
10 I keep in touch with some people who are still inside — most of the people that were in with me are still there .
11 The ‘ grounds ’ that most interest me are about 6in beneath those once trod by the aristocrats , so I 'm sure the snobbish doctor 's ghost will tolerate my company for an afternoon .
12 My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train .
13 If I am dependent on you ( subordinate-boss ) , then your perceptions of me are more distorted , and vice versa .
14 Some people , it seems to me are never satisfied .
15 The hundred books on the table in front of me are so many tongs that pinch out the nerve of independent thought … one can not go one 's own way independently enough " ; and , from 1868 , a sardonic dismissal of " the philologists of our time " for " their joy at capturing worms and their indifference to the true problems , the urgent problems of life " .
16 Thursdays for me are mainly rest days .
17 M I mean , let's be fair I mean most of the stallholders that I 've found in Nottinghamshire erm are perfectly honest and reputable and many of them been there many years anyway .
18 The long hours — most of his staff are working 18 hours a day — and the pressure are taking their toll on his campaign team , many of whom are clearly very tired .
19 Her condition is irreversible and she writes , ‘ this is not so much news as an appeal to Somervillians who might bring the existence of these neuropathies to the attention of the public , some of whom are probably in the early stages . ’
20 I , I , I would wonder if Mr 's questions need to be erm , taken up with the chief public health inspector , because I think that that , or it , that appears to be , or possibly the trading chi=standards , trading standards officer , neither of whom are here .
21 And the evidence suggests that PRP is discriminatory against women and ethnic minorities , both of whom are strongly represented in nursing . ’
22 The opponents maintained that the secondary market serves only a tiny fraction of American artists , most of whom are already quite rich .
23 But if the problems of training staff and investing in the necessary hardware and software systems are proving burdensome to national institutions , they will surely place an intolerable strain on the budgets of local archival services , many of whom are already faced with reduced hours of opening and the like simply in order to survive .
24 Even feminists , most of whom are traditionally opposed to pornography , have voiced approval for what the amateur performers are doing .
25 In the Stormont debate on the events of 5 October , Craig referred to NICRA as ‘ an omnium gatherum made up of members of the Londonderry Housing Action Committee , the majority of whom are also members of the Connolly Association , of the Republican Party which includes well-known members of the IRA and Sinn Féin , of the Young Socialists and of the Communist Party ’ .
26 But for the painful bout of constipation , the aesthetics of mass eating — coping with hospital food when sharing a table with sixteen others most of whom are also carrying some form of umbilical , from blood to urine — everything was fine .
27 The Scottish Select for tomorrow 's match includes Carol Maclean ( Livingston ) and Debbie Strang ( Glasgow City Brightsiders ) , both of whom are also in the national squad preparing for internationals against Wales at the end of March and the Home Countries Championship in Glasgow in April .
28 WHO now has some fifty staff in the area , half of whom are locally engaged .
29 Altogether eighteen artists took part , all of whom are either practising or have been carpet designers in the past .
30 The famous names of this generation include Robert Rauschenberg , Jasper Johns , Jim Dine , Roy Lichtenstein , Andy Warhol , Claes Oldenberg , James Rosenquist and Ed Ruscha , all of whom are prominently featured in Schimmel 's selection by works of art created at the beginning of their careers .
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