Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean David 's talking about the leaf stem I could n't care less about the leaf stem I 'm with most people I understand that Councillor Barry Jackson 's offered to look after it in his garden cos he likes it and he 's welcome to do that . |
| 2 | The Italian the other children spoke in school was not a dialect like my Triestino and in many subjects I was in any case behind the others , a thought which made me very unhappy . |
| 3 | ‘ IT 'S NOT the number of winners I am after this year . |
| 4 | Secondly , the torts considered in this chapter may also come into question in cases of alleged unlawful competition between traders , but in practice they are of little significance because of the common law 's refusal to adopt any principle of ‘ fair competition ’ other than the prohibition of obviously unlawful acts like torts and crimes and breaches of contract . |
| 5 | I mean there are some Conservatives who do actually believe in the social welfare of the but there are also , I 'm I 'm sure there are large numbers who actually know what vicious streak there is behind a lot of the other measures of social control that have gone on in this country since consensus was in nineteen seventy nine er you actually realise what what a tragedy it is in this area . |
| 6 | It 's my fault he 's in this mess . |
| 7 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
| 8 | It 's just like an inverse it 's of that number |
| 9 | Small it is in this poore sort |
| 10 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |
| 11 | ‘ Then it would surprise you , perhaps , to learn that Kao Chen was one of the two assassins you were after that day ten years ago . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 13 | And I feel sorry for the officers ' families who have to know that every time they go to work they 're in this sort of danger . |
| 14 | But for other cancers they were of little use . |
| 15 | Moreover , if there was maladministration it is of little consequence now in that the new regime established by the Financial Services Act of 1986 has rendered the DTI 's role in this matter redundant . |
| 16 | As a symbolic act it was of much importance since it offered the prospect of a framework for a wider Anglo-Irish settlement and provided a hope of genuine political involvement for the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland , not in a failed local assembly but through their co-religionists in the south . |
| 17 | And in case you 're in any doubt , that was a compliment ! ’ she added tartly as she climbed from the bag and began to struggle into her now dry clothes . |
| 18 | Just in case you are in any doubt though , you can treat this as an enthusiastic endorsement . |
| 19 | She saw him cross impetuously to his wife , lift her bodily by the waist , and kiss her heartily ; and she knew that before the latch clashed into place they were in each other 's arms . |
| 20 | For the sake of clarity the ascending-node longitudes have all been set equal to each other , though within each group they are in any case much the same . |
| 21 | So he has accepted an offer to drive the new Vector at Silverstone , but insists at the moment it is for this race only . |
| 22 | A the moment it is in most cases just about possible to say that , according to a family history , a certain risk exists . |
| 23 | After studying the small lake he knew instinctively that if there was a fish it was in this pool . |
| 24 | She just sat on the stairs eating biscuit after biscuit until , just before midnight , the telephone rang and she heard the voice of the surgeon telling her that the operation was over , that it had been a complete success and that Paul was likely to make a rapid recovery It was after that call that Annette realised that she had steadily munched her way through two and a half packets of biscuits . |
| 25 | It 's not from a chip shop it 's from that Londis shop . |
| 26 | Antiques day at a the , this is the all the places it 's at this Sunday and it 's er , in Chester . |
| 27 | What humbug it is for some Opposition Members to say that one should buy British and then travel around in foreign cars . |
| 28 | and then the next day I was in that shop working away and on my life this was |
| 29 | Some pieces of work , on the other hand , require a lot of reading and study time during composition ; and for these you are likely to produce better work if you choose questions that genuinely interest you , or connect with problems you are in any case interested in outside your literary work , rather than if you feel your work is being done out of obligation or under duress . |
| 30 | Although ( according to attitudinism ) ethical statements express attitudes rather than beliefs they are in many ways quite comparable to factual statements which express beliefs . |