Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , the signs are that he died as a result of poisoning but this has to be confirmed . ’ |
| 3 | I wondered what the place with towers and searchlights had been that we passed in the night . |
| 4 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
| 5 | There is indeed a single gene male which has recently been and it acts as a switch . |
| 6 | ‘ You need to know where they all are if you work for the Royal Mail , ’ Coltman says . |
| 7 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 8 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 9 | And the result of that , according to the Forum of Private Business , can be that they go to the wall , taking hundreds of jobs with them . |
| 10 | An alternative to thinking that Harald had been in England since 1016 , and returned to Denmark with part of a disbanded fleet in 1018 , might be that he had in the interval been expelled from it , and sailed with the fleet in 1018 in an attempt to regain control . |
| 11 | A managerial action could be that he transfers with the outside party services . |
| 12 | The behaviourists ' answer would be that I have in the past been reinforced by coffee when I have gone to C , but not when I have gone to B. This could well be correct . |
| 13 | yeah but I , I 'm and I sawed through the board and you ran away so fast |
| 14 | One way of making it more difficult for the Community Charge Registration Officers to trace people will be if they disappear from the electoral register . |
| 15 | Of course , there will be the process of introducing the council tax as there would be if we listened to the Labour party and introduced its tax . |
| 16 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 17 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 18 | I suppose you have to be if you sleep with an erstwhile nun . |
| 19 | I I I I 'm until you spoke to the collators department , they told you simply that they knew each other . |
| 20 | Tottenham 's dilemma was well chronicled last year , but one wonders how long it will be before they return to the same situation . |
| 21 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 22 | At some point or other , though Jack has never discussed the possibility in public , he appears to have suspected that all might not be as it seemed in the Nicholson household . |
| 23 | Well , you do n't tell two old people that a year and a bit too late you 're out to find what the sticking power of their son will be when it comes to the choicer interrogation techniques of KGB . |
| 24 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 25 | tangle it , just trying to tangle it up , cos the idea being if he gets round a weed , often enough he go that means , basically it gives him a lever , I mean they 're very clever you know , these fish , they 're not , they do n't just sort of sit there and wait . |
| 26 | Yes , we had the , we had the six foot drop in February do you remember ? were cos we live on a steep hill and |
| 27 | Dexter noticed for the first time how thin his legs were as they wandered along the corridor . |
| 28 | Whatever reservations they had about dealing with me were as nothing compared to the reservations they had about dealing with each other . |
| 29 | Yet they were as nothing compared to the eighty-eight major rings that clustered near the apex of the dome . |
| 30 | One familiar view is that nothing qualifies as a genuine proper name unless it singles out its object in an unambiguous fashion , and that this task can be accomplished only by a logically simple symbol . |