Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] [pron] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , Daley Thompson , the celebrated Essex Beagles decathlete , was brought up in a home where he was denied parental encouragement for his sport . |
| 2 | If we are to believe late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century etiquette writers ( which I do n't altogether ) this was a period when it was thought gross to talk about food except to your cook , and in bad taste to discuss your host 's wine . |
| 3 | He then returned to the sitting room and sat in front of the television where he was found asleep by his father and the others when they returned 40 minutes later . |
| 4 | The breadth of the catch-all provision was , I imagine , the reason why it was thought appropriate to make the power exercisable ‘ where … it may be deemed just to rectify the register . ’ |
| 5 | Did you go to the sort of school where it was made easy to go into science , or did you go to the sort of school where nice girls did the arts or something quite different ? |
| 6 | Beverley 's achievements made the headlines last year when she was named outright winner and Science and Technology Section winner in the Cosmopolitan /Clairol Achievement Awards , a competition which aims to highlight women who have attained excellence in their professions . |
| 7 | At the time when he was posted missing , she was in a fever of anxiety about her own family who were in the concentration camp at Treblinka , and even then being sent to the gas chambers . |