Example sentences of "[is] be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , well , what I 'm ringing about is am I allowed back in there or am I barred ? |
| 2 | The rest is history , but one which records her pivotal work with the Ordinary Life initiative more than ten years ago , from which so much else has flowed ; working with Maureen Oswin on bereavement which culminated two years ago in the latter 's Am I Allowed to Cry ? , helping to get the Campaign for Mentally Handicapped People ( now Values into Action ) off the ground ; respite care ; and the initiative to get children out of long-stay hospitals . |
| 3 | How that 's done I do n't know how do we reach these people there 's a broad sheet that goes to the school 's am I right Jan ? |
| 4 | Mr I assume it 's are they free to go out and use firearms ? |
| 5 | Briquettes who 's are they , briquettes ? |
| 6 | then you , you and me came back on , but it 's finished and it has n't been replaced , it 's are you out of breath |
| 7 | He 's not going in there now it 's are you sure it 's not foxes or cats ? |
| 8 | No , Anthony will you stop banging on the radiator , no it 's are you happy and , if you 're happy and you know it clap your hands , if you 're happy and you know it clap your hands |
| 9 | You going that , what 's are you going to , down to Paul 's twenty first ? |
| 10 | Yeah , it 's are you |
| 11 | All other doctrines are very secondary to that , and the question is are we to express that reality or must we continue to obscure it . |
| 12 | Er and the other point which e you might like to comment is are they in effect set out in any order of precedence . |
| 13 | All the court wants to know is are you pleading guilty or not guilty . |
| 14 | The only thing about work is are you working with oil ? |
| 15 | I went into the gardens one Sunday morning with the dog found a body in a sleeping bag and I really did n't know whether I thought it was alive or not alive so I went rather closer and I got a very defensive angry stare from a young man and I said to him I 'm not going to ask you to move , because you 've probably got nowhere to go , my real concern is are you okay . |
| 16 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 17 | As you say the main problem is , as you say is are you going to change your whole team , game |
| 18 | The question is are you actually interes , attracted to her enough to want to , you know what are you |
| 19 | Choppy Spencer is are you prepared to accept the conclusion that some people might be suggesting right now that this whole stunt of opting out is a political fumble ? |
| 20 | This is were I pull this up and go . |
| 21 | So you 've been robbed , raped and swindled , the question is were you asking for it ? and what are you going to do about it now ? |
| 22 | And the other thing is were you running from the hard drive or from that floppy ? cos I did n't want the tape-recorder travelling . |
| 23 | And my aunty Gwendoline said is were you asleep ? |
| 24 | It 's being it is being prescribed t for huge numbers of people , it 's being promoted as a very safe drug , it 's a very profitable drug , and we already know that it causes a very large number of quite serious side effects . |
| 25 | If they come up with a question maybe just find out what 's being it erm not just reaction to a particular behaviour , but asking them how the feeling , you know maybe pointing to the bit in their body that 's actually feeling butterflies or whatever and trying to help them to express the fears and , more importantly , to make them concrete in terms of play , drawing , or acting it out . |
| 26 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
| 27 | Now is a good moment to emphasize that however friendly and informal the interviewer is being you should not fall into the trap of overfamiliarity . |
| 28 | We 'll be on that boat up and down the River Tyne at the finish , that 's were we 'll end up I think . |
| 29 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 30 | What 's were they made of metal ? |