Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb mod] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , if you do n't feel you want to cooperate with me I shall be justified in going ahead with my job and in leaving you free to act in any way you think fit . ’ |
| 2 | I was interviewed by the Sudan Agent in London who gave me lunch at his club , and told me I would be called before a selection board when I came down from Oxford . |
| 3 | The assistant governor [ AG ] who I saw four days after I got into prison told me I 'd be going to Cookham Wood or Bullwood Hall in two to three weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ If you need me I can be contacted on the phone . |
| 5 | Yes , you can tell them I 'll be speaking to my mother as soon as she gets back , tonight . |
| 6 | No , I 'm just trying to work out how long I 'm gon na be practising for West Side Story tomorrow because you might have to take my money my pocket money tomorrow I might not be able to get like home , sort of cos er I I might be practising till bloody six o'clock for all I know so I 'll get some chips or something . |
| 7 | As as I see it er it 's and I I may be corrected on this , Professor Lock 's hypothesis is that we over-provide land and then limit release once an |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , yer can tell 'er I 'll be callin' on 'er tomorra . |
| 9 | Even I itself can be factorised in a variety of ways ; as one example , if J is the square matrix which has units in its secondary diagonal and zeros elsewhere , which we shall call the reversing matrix , then |
| 10 | At the time my idea of manhood was personified as someone who had to work hard at a job he hated in order to support not only himself , but other people whose very existence he resented ; someone who was forever having to make difficult decisions and take frightening initiatives , both of which ended in frustration ; and someone who might be called upon to fight in wars ( National Service was then still in operation ) and kill people . |
| 11 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 12 | Successful schemes always had someone who could be identified as the driving force , someone who pushed and who steered the project through to a satisfactory launch . |
| 13 | Someone who could be trusted with confidences , give advice , and yet not be constrained and influenced by being your parent . |
| 14 | Generally , it is best to send out a strong opener , that is someone who can be relied upon to go all out for a victory . |
| 15 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |
| 16 | See yourself as someone who will be going to China . |
| 17 | I myself will be interviewing from tomorrow along with Spencer and Willis . ’ |
| 18 | Stocker was at pains to say : ‘ We have nothing which could be tested on humans … nothing yet which can help Aids patients or people infected with the Aids virus or any other virus . ’ |
| 19 | They agreed to do nothing which could be construed as recognition of the current Soviet government . |
| 20 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 21 | They can be teamed up with an additional pair of short curtains hanging above them which would be drawn at night , thus giving a tiered effect . |
| 22 | But they reaped no advantage ; there was nothing moving towards them which could be deemed to be a consideration , with the result that the case is one in which the contract is made , but remains unenforceable in law … . |
| 23 | The danger of over-embalming is not there because these fluids are designed to be mixed , not like old fashioned fluids with which nothing could be mixed except some Fairy Liquid for lanolin content . |
| 24 | This is another in our series from the university , in which I shall be discovering from people in the wider community what they know about us and what the points of contact are between the university and them . |
| 25 | ‘ In the prevailing economic climate , dominated by low dollar oil prices , the task is not easy and demands a high level of cost consciousness which I shall be promoting throughout the group . ’ |
| 26 | Even the weaker version — that the theories simply implied a relationship between low social class and crime — came later to be dismissed as an artefact of class-biased law enforcement ( however , the argument about the relationship between social class and crime is a complex one to which I shall be returning in Part Two ) . |
| 27 | Secondly , there 's an item in the management team tele-conference minute which are due to be confirmed today , the which I shall be querying about work in the office , out of office hours . |
| 28 | But these must wait , because they are no longer in Basse-Navarre but in the third Basque province of the Soule , to which I shall be coming in a moment . |
| 29 | It certainly is sir the last day on which I shall be appearing at either of these enquiries . |
| 30 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |