Example sentences of "[that] be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the people in the world awaken to the rights that are theirs , governments will no longer dare to defy them and set them at nought . ’ |
| 2 | They a they er they 're not going to know that are they ? |
| 3 | What , koi carp and all that are they Tony ? |
| 4 | Experience the atmosphere and feelings that are yours when you own and sail the superlative Swan 46 . |
| 5 | Now the all important thing about a piano is , apart from the fact that it t can be at the centre of an orgy , the important thing is that are you able to collect it ? |
| 6 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 7 | Like , and there 's other people in there that are you know , they should be wrote down , and she looked at me |
| 8 | Oh you 're going to use that are you ? |
| 9 | And if you 're coming round the corner you 're not gon na knock that are you ? |
| 10 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 11 | Nor can we believe that were we to allow this application , potential future witnesses would be deterred from co-operating in investigations yet to come or the police feel inhibited from giving future reassurance as to the consequences of such co-operation in the self-same terms as at present . |
| 12 | And the corridor down and kitch two or three kitchens that were we we went er I asked one of th the attendants I got a I grabbed the another chap with me we we 'd come across together . |
| 13 | I hope that Opposition Members accept that were we to attempt a rushed account this evening it would of necessity be incomplete . |
| 14 | So I think there are difficulties and I might er just finally add that were we to go along the lines he mentioned , we would of course need primary er legislation because we could n't introduce in orders under the relevant legislation this , so it would have to be a matter for another day , were we to er consider that seriously , but it is not the intention of the government . |
| 15 | So what actually happened that were they were brought down ? |
| 16 | As always I got up at once so that I might cherish the ninety minutes until we assembled for work — minutes that were mine — not the authorities . |
| 17 | Heseltine faced the tactical dilemma that were he to campaign openly and be seen to be instrumental in splitting the party and bringing down the Prime Minister , he would be criticised as divisive and disloyal . |
| 18 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 19 | When the psychologist Donald Griffin describes the ability of great tits and chickadees to obtain milk from bottles by ‘ pecking through their shiny coverings with the conscious intention of obtaining food ’ ( 1984 : 35 ) , it is obvious that were he not talking of a ‘ conscious intention ’ , in the normal human acceptation of the phrase , he would fail to arouse the average reader 's curiosity and sympathies . |
| 20 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 21 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that were he to make representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , there is no constitutional impediment to the Chancellor abolishing taxes before Budget day ? |
| 22 | It sounds slightly improbable that my right hon. Friend will be called to a meaningful debate on Scottish constitutional matters in the near future , but will he assure Conservative Members that were he to be so he is fully aware that people in England would take it amiss if any proposition were seriously entertained which allowed Scottish Members to decide matters in Scotland and then to have a say in English matters in England ? |
| 23 | I have no doubt that were he here today he would tell us that he was merely offering the hypothesis as a basis for argument ; but bearing in mind that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is the author of the words that I uttered a moment or two ago in support of the analysis of the historical nature of the government of Scotland , the Government should certainly take some account of this further straw in the wind . |
| 24 | ‘ That may be true , ’ Claudia said , knowing that were she in Berenice 's shoes , she would let Garry go . |
| 25 | Aye that 's , right , that 's it , that were us |
| 26 | ‘ The lion signified the power and strength that were his , the unicorn , he wrote , symbolised the happiness Lucia brought to his house . |
| 27 | But Gentlemen for your deliberations to be useful they must be free — your opinions must not be shackled by authorities ; & I know that were I present your candor and delicacy towards me would be such , as to prevent that freedom of discussion and investigation , which is absolutely necessary to obtain a knowledge of facts . |
| 28 | Specifically the grotesque threat that were I to penetrate a woman I would lose my penis . |
| 29 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 30 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |