Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire . |
| 2 | CONSIDERING the vast worldwide market that exists for sexual material of all kinds , it is remarkable just how bad mainstream cinema has been when it comes to portraying sexual passion . |
| 3 | Your Lordship er will see from paragraph three eleven that what the letter er says is as we discussed on the telephone , the advantage of the landlord 's objection is that it gives you time to put your finances in order , if the licence was forthcoming now you would be obliged to complete the transaction which at this stage you are unable to do . |
| 4 | What this case clearly shows is that one has to be very careful in assuming that in restraint of trade cases a phrase ascribed a meaning in one case will also be ascribed the same meaning in another . |
| 5 | What he really means is that he putted like the devil and it was grossly unfair — there is even a feeling that it is ‘ not quite golf ’ to win by superior skill on the greens . |
| 6 | What it means is that I have to be with him , except when I 'm working , since he ca n't always take time to be with me . ’ |
| 7 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 8 | He said and what he often does is because he lives over this area . |
| 9 | One question that immediately arises is whether it refers to the content of speech or to the form — the sequencing of utterances , for instance . |
| 10 | If we have only indicators what his methodological reasoning suggests is that we look for patterns among indicators which might suggest that we have found something of substance and significance . |