Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I think one of the most worrying things that for the soldiers at the front was will their family be looked after and will their land sort of be alright when they get back |
| 2 | He 's not going to be pleased that you 've kept this little morsel to yourself . ’ |
| 3 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 4 | ( Elizabeth said that she was not quite sure whether she ought to be pleased when I told her this ; but I am sure she was pleased . ) |
| 5 | The results of the second set of tests again turned out to be negative and she refused any further investigation . |
| 6 | ‘ I asked you to be honest so I 've no right to complain because you 've spelt it all out . |
| 7 | I think they 've got their cost structures er a a little bit out of line and I have to be honest that I think that some of them have thought that er all you have to do is , you know , keep a brass plate outside your door for fifty years and the work would roll in . |
| 8 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 9 | I , I would normally say to you now , right what 's your objectives for the two days , but to be honest if we do that , er , I do n't think it helps very much , erm , but if anybody wants to make any comments about any specific part of it , er , then I 'll try and just talk you through it . |
| 10 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 11 | In other words , publishing commitments have to be substantial and it does not take much to sap confidence when the risk is so high . |
| 12 | Total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all is unlikely to be reasonable where it occurs because of acts or omissions within the control of the party in default , which are caused by negligence , incompetence or inadvertence but not wilful default ( " inadvertent default " ) . |
| 13 | Several directors are believed to be unhappy that he has kept details of the negotiations from them . |
| 14 | Thousands of boys and young men , pale , narrow-chested , hunched-up , miserable specimens , smoking endless cigarettes , numbers of them betting , all of them learning to be hysterical as they groan and cheer in panic unison with their neighbours — the worst sound of all being the hysterical scream of laughter that greets any little trip or fall of a player . |
| 15 | To be effective , an innovation has to be simple and it has to be focused . |
| 16 | ‘ Business was brisk in the last quarter of 1992 and it continues to be encouraging as we settle into 1993 . ’ |
| 17 | This plan 's only going to be successful if they do n't suspect anything , and if they see her around they 'll suspect lots . |
| 18 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 19 | Anstey 's approach to this edition was initially intended to be thematic but she has reverted to the chronological format of the first edition , thus not only dispensing with the problems of placing the themes but also giving the reader a parallel in comment on Thomas 's development both in poetry and prose . |
| 20 | ‘ This might be just a game to you , but I 'm working , and I 'm going to be late if you hold me up ! ’ |
| 21 | Others in the group argued that up to a point all those things were right , but that often a subject was complex , often it could be constructive for everyone to have a chairperson who would guide discussion , not control it , who would be able to be supportive when someone talked too much or too little . |
| 22 | A syllable will tend to be prominent if it contains a vowel that is different in quality from neighbouring vowels . |
| 23 | All statements of fact and information contained or referred to in the Disclosure Letter are true and complete and are not misleading in any respect , all statements of opinion therein have been made after due and careful enquiry and are reasonably believed to be correct and nothing has been omitted from the Disclosure Letter which renders any of such matters misleading . |
| 24 | Paul Deacon , 33 , was lucky to be alive after he made a dash through the flames in his flat in Ford Way , Bishop Auckland , County Durham , in the middle of the night . |
| 25 | But I do n't want to be alive when you reject me for it . ’ |
| 26 | We wanted him to be well before he started school , so we took advantage of the health care scheme offered by my company and by many other companies and trade unions . ’ |
| 27 | The parents have said they do not want their schools to be self-governing but they see the legislation as the only way to avoid closure . |
| 28 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |
| 29 | Here also everything seemed to be normal until he started opening drawers and looking into cupboards . |
| 30 | No doubt there will be an extensive scrutiny from those who expect everything to be perfect but it passes pretty well from my point of view . |