Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'm just content that things have been going pretty well on the field so far . |
| 2 | I 'm just saying that things might be less confused , and less dangerous , if he could soberly entertain the idea of being homosexual . |
| 3 | I 'm merely saying that Gramps could not have been the father of her child ! ’ |
| 4 | I was partially sighted and doctors talked about scarred retinas . |
| 5 | In any argument you develop , we have suggested that it is important to distinguish between views you are taking for granted , views you are directly asserting and views with which you disagree . |
| 6 | ‘ You and Eddie , well , you 're both proof that miracles happen ! |
| 7 | Recall that we are temporarily assuming that irreducibles and primes are one and the same thing in Z. |
| 8 | As we explained in section 4.2 , the model we are considering assumes that prices in each market move each period to equate supply and demand in each market . |
| 9 | We 're always reading that prisons are far too overcrowded these days . |
| 10 | We got our first publishing contract through that , but we were just signing as songwriters and we made the odd grotesque , poppy single ! |
| 11 | They are good little theoretical exercises because they are easily described and algorithms for solving them are easily programmed , but they have a lot of symmetry , which is most uncommon in real life . |
| 12 | The general principle is that advocates ' rights should be determined only by whether they are properly trained and members of a professional body whose rules of conduct are ‘ appropriate in the interests of justice in relation to the court or proceedings concerned ’ . |
| 13 | But Mr Fallon claimed most war disability pensions were tax free : ‘ They are only taxed if pensioners ’ income exceeds £4,000 a year . ’ |
| 14 | They are only sprayed when numbers become a problem . |
| 15 | ONCE praised as heroes , they are now denounced as villains . |
| 16 | Most exporters would like to avoid exchange risk by invoicing in Sterling but they are now finding that markets will set the price and the method of pricing . |
| 17 | They are much prized as servants , for their ability to turn onion skins into gold leaf and many other magical spells , and were imprisoned in brass bottles or finger-ring compartments from whence they were summoned to do the bidding of their captor . |
| 18 | Two other factors are worth mentioning here because they are often given as reasons for dispersals that could not obviously be justified otherwise . |
| 19 | The principal hunting weapon may have been the bow and arrow ; arrows , as with all tools , are rare in early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries ; they are often viewed as weapons of warfare but constitute the most obvious hunting weapon amongst the range of artefacts and their rarity in cemeteries may only be a reflection of their importance to the community . |
| 20 | We will introduce rights for customers of all financial institutions , ensuring they are fully informed when changes are made which do or might affect them . |
| 21 | Real problems , problems that they 're currently facing or issues that the company 's facing , they like real problems activate things . |
| 22 | Apart from rifling the chests of the Excise offices in the towns they had occupied , the Scots had while in England behaved with remarkable correctness , but now they were increasingly described as thieves and ruffians , an attitude epitomised by the verses written about a group of Yorkshire sportsmen who formed themselves into a unit of amateur warriors known as ‘ The Royal Hunters ’ : |
| 23 | They were also handicapped as conmen by not being able to master the language so , after a few months , they landed back in England with altered names and appearances . |
| 24 | the landlords in Saigon are if you like more commercial , more capitalist , it might be they were better organized than landlords in the north . |
| 25 | They were commonly shown as half-figures carved in relief within a frame . |
| 26 | It 's already known that women who take the contraceptive pill are much less likely to develop it . |
| 27 | I always reckon it 's tremendously flattering that viewers want to talk to you when they meet you in the street . |
| 28 | The hotplate is safe and easy to use — because it 's completely sealed and spills are easily wiped away . |
| 29 | Add to that the dreadfully long hours that doctors and nurses have to work — sometimes 16-18 hour shifts — and it 's little wonder that mistakes are made . |
| 30 | It 's always said that Oppositions rarely win elections , Governments lose them . |