Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend to artists in England after the war in which Apollinaire had fought was another combatant , the poet and critic Herbert Read . |
| 2 | Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years . |
| 3 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 4 | What supporters seem to overlook is that football is a game of two sides — one side has to lose otherwise it is a draw . |
| 5 | Sleepily goes into spiel about what kind of care would she like , has she chosen a hospital yet , how does she feel generally , this is her first , is n't it , a lot of nonsense talked nowadays about active births and so on , what people fail to realize is that birth is potentially highly dangerous for the mother and the child and that with a bit of foresight and the right equipment it 's possible to etc. , etc. , etc . |
| 6 | So in fact I 've always concentrated and what people have wanted is some specific direction namely wills dying and what happens if you have n't done something about it . |