Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [adj] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I lay on my bed in a cheap lodging house and cried and I tell you Ellen I wished I was with you and receiving your kindness which was great to me .
2 Well so many other counties would like a a pt a a seat which is coterminous with them , I know Norfolk would , but the rule is that constituencies should have as far as possible , equal numbers of electors .
3 I believe that those sexual practices which fail to recognise the essential humanity of other people are bad ; the man who rapes an unwilling partner , the individual who takes delight in the infliction of pain upon a partner who does not desire it , or the one who forces another into any sexual practice which is obnoxious to him or her is using the " partner " as an object rather than interacting with him or her as a human being .
4 No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , but you will only be able to respond to task mail which is outstanding for you .
5 erm the managerial action which is available for you , t to take him out of there and put him into a different post , because he 's not capable of doing .
6 So , the money must have locked Froggy in to some deal which was important to him and important to Supersight . ’
7 Such people need help in maintaining their environment in a condition which is safe for them until their mood improves .
8 It can be done also while the train is moving , which is why we want to know if there was anyone in the dome car who was unknown to you all .
9 ‘ She was thrilled to bits , ’ he said : ‘ The pictures are innocuous and she never gave any indication she was unhappy about them .
10 Prices are so low in the market because there is such a bumper crop that it is simply not worth them harvesting , as a result it is rational for them er just to leave the apples um , pears and what have you on , on the trees .
11 As a result it is difficult for them to make business contacts .
12 As the Royal Bank is firmly established as a leading provider of services to the securities industry it was natural for it to assume responsibility .
13 The first thing and these are statistical problems that we wo n't spend too much time on them but just make sure they are our error term in this equation , right , is no longer a random error term it 's dependent on it 's value in the previous period right , cos B T actually represents U T minus sumfunction of E T minus one right .
14 Barbara has always known what emotion it is appropriate for her to feel .
15 Finally , the 1987 Act provides that where a minor has acquired property under a contract which is unenforceable against him , or which he has repudiated on the grounds of minority , he may be required by the court , when it thinks it ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so , to return the property , or else property representing that which he has acquired ( without prejudice to any other remedy available to the plaintiff ) .
16 Section 3 of the Minors ' Contracts Act 1987 empowers the court , where it would be ‘ just and equitable ’ ( i.e. fair ) to do so , to require the minor to return property which he has acquired under a contract which is unenforceable against him .
17 Er , the second issue is did the plaintiff , Mr ask Peter to get him out of the contract between exchange and completion er that is clearly in dispute but if he did then the further issue is this , were the defendants in breach of contract in failing to advise the plaintiffs at a stage as to the effects of national condition of sale twenty two two and a way out of the contract which was open to him .
18 The King could reasonably take the view that he was doing no more than exercising the right to encourage , one of Bagehot 's famous trinity of rights , and that he was encouraging his Prime Minister in achieving his aims , rather than pressing MacDonald to adopt a course which was unwelcome to him .
19 It must also be borne in mind , even where the language versions are entirely in accord with one another , that Community law uses terminology which is peculiar to it .
20 Now if ‘ I can only be known by description , and the only description which is true of it is ‘ that group of mental states , caused by the same living body ’ of which the envy and my judgement are members ' , it follows that anyone who does not describe ‘ I ’ in that way , will not know what ‘ I ’ means , and so will mean nothing when he says ‘ I was envious yesterday ’ .
21 The court noted that Mr Curtin had not exercised either the informal right of appeal against the Assistant Director 's decision which was available to him , nor his statutory right to appeal to the Master of the Rolls .
22 How do we collect the income which is due to us ?
23 This means that actors are expected to be able to control any regional or foreign accent which is natural to them , and deliver a text in what may best be called ‘ the classical style ’ .
24 But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf .
25 you 're responsible for mine and if I 'm at work I 'm responsible for yours , I wrote to the D H S S
26 Thus the pilots who are flying several different types of glider , or a glider which is unfamiliar to them , must ask themselves before each flight , ‘ Do I need the stick forward to lift the tail , or back a little to lift the nose ? ’
27 In them he perceives a devil-may-care attitude which is attractive to him .
28 He found himself smiling widely as he went to obey her and for a moment he felt he had dropped into a home which was familiar to him .
29 I think the question which is critical to us is how would an additional ten hectares in Richmondshire harm the strategic objectives of the County Council ?
30 ‘ If you must write — you do n't need to by the way , I can earn enough to support my family — but if you really must , you should always write ‘ Mrs Nigel Hughes ’ at the end of it and tell the editor you are married to me . ’
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