Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [be] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |
| 2 | Never use silver dip or abrasive powders on gold and be sure to check that any commercial cleaner you are using is specifically designed for gold . |
| 3 | Throughout this period what is striking is the perpetual fluctuation between the serious and the humorous , between a desperate situation and an ironical response . |
| 4 | You may be getting a friend or neighbour , and handy some s social event they are planning be careful losing money or credit cards while out shopping , your interest can help you with your career , meeting this month may solve problems with high finance . |
| 5 | All this publicity we were getting was not getting us work . |
| 6 | This bridge we 're guarding is of great strategic importance . |
| 7 | This tale he was telling was surely a lie . |
| 8 | Well the interesting thing which is happening is that we 're getting better at preventing these things happening . |
| 9 | Fine er what we 're , what we 're saying to you basically is , right , and , and another thing you 're doing is proving that you 're capable of doing it , now if I was training you from cold , right , and you had n't done it |
| 10 | An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility . |
| 11 | On one of these outings , the nervous mare I was riding was already unsettled by strong winds . |
| 12 | District councillors are under no illusion that the extra cash they are providing is enough to solve the problem entirely . |
| 13 | The serious point I 'm making is that , too often , in schools , the kind of questions are focused on just what is least interesting , not the , people 's attitude to witches , or to their bodies , or their attitudes to women , to children , all these things which are now considered part of the historian 's province , but instead we get saddled with the Treaty of Uncia Scolesi and the Repeal of the Corn Laws , and this is worrying . |
| 14 | There is a need for this facility and the real reason it was mothballed was not because of the need for rationalisation — but it was an embarrassment . |
| 15 | To the outside world what was happening was a tightening-up of some matters , a clearing out of unexamined clutter and the creation of a sense of accountability . |
| 16 | The second thing we 're doing is we 've we are going to attract a lot of money from what we call a specific grant for mentally ill . |
| 17 | . So to work out how much energy you 're using is , how quickly am I using up energy , well I 'm using it at a rate of ten kilowatts . |
| 18 | What do you think that disk you are holding was ? |
| 19 | Well that site they 're proposing is over my private road . |
| 20 | Or course the sawn-off shotgun he was reloading was a bit of a giveaway , though . |
| 21 | The basic point I am making is I , you know , and this is quite unfair . |
| 22 | Following the extension until Dec. 31 of the period of transition to multiparty democracy which was to have been completed by Aug. 28 [ see p. 39041 ] , Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh officially dissolved his government on Sept. 1 , but asked its members to continue in a caretaker role . |
| 23 | This little shoemaker I 'm carving is a leprechaun [ he pronounced it ‘ leprehorn ’ ] and the priest will say there 's no such thing . |
| 24 | The colour of the filthy dress she was wearing was indistinguishable from the deep brown of her skin . |
| 25 | What we were criticized and several senior councillors quite rightly said , the five thousand pound we were spending was only going to a very few . |
| 26 | If the mutational jump we are considering is a very large one , the number of possible destinations of that jump is astronomically large . |
| 27 | When the international loan you are proposing is less than sound , you may secure the guarantee of a third party to shore it up . |
| 28 | The developmental role which is implied is a notion of individualised service planning — an approach which is exemplified in the process of negotiating individual programme plans for mentally handicapped clients . |
| 29 | ‘ Currently the most important influence we 're seeing is from athletic sportswear . |
| 30 | The dangerous alternative to the psychiatric help he is offering is Despair . |