Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the procedure and function names below and decide which is the easier to read . |
| 2 | Presently a man with greying hair and specs came in and said he was the doctor who was going to remove the polyps . |
| 3 | yes it 's Richard , wait a minute , lets go down and see what 's the matter with Ri , what 's the matter Richard ? |
| 4 | What matters most is that we should accept the peculiarity of the method rather than assume it is the natural and only way to behave . |
| 5 | Or I 'm responsible for erm and she did what she did rather than saying I 'm the indoor sales exec or the the account handler or the telesales person who is or |
| 6 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 7 | COCA-COLA took over sponsorship of the League Cup in a £2.25 million deal yesterday and confirmed they are the ‘ real thing ’ for football . |
| 8 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 9 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 10 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 11 | He reaches into his bag , brings out a sandwich , then stands up and inspects it is the projector beam to see what it contains . |
| 12 | Sometimes I 'd wake up and find I was the only one in the middle of the big bed . |
| 13 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 14 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 15 | In years to come , when the new road has fallen into disuse and the plaque has been worn away by time , people may come here and wonder what is the hidden significance of the stones ; or maybe by then , they 'll have discovered that Stonehenge was built by some ancient farmer , commemmorating a new bypass . |
| 16 | I think I 'd better go backstage and see what 's the matter . ’ |
| 17 | I just turned round and says mine was the cheapest price anyway ! |
| 18 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |