Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 2 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 3 | I believe that the very speed at which they have been absorbed into the school system indicates an uncritical acceptance of the package because it is new and modern and fashionable and that there has been little serious examination of which aspects are relevant and which are not . |
| 4 | Note that bass notes are mostly dissonant with the melody , and that there has been little attempt to remove note-relationships which conventionally would be regarded as crude and unmusical . |
| 5 | The fact that women have decided to participate in the difficult but just struggle of El Salvador has meant that they have developed politically and ideologically and that there have been many changes in men 's attitudes , After the triumph , I believe these changes will become more apparent . |
| 6 | It has never been able to serve as a unifying force and if anything has been more of a divider . |
| 7 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 8 | This was the first time they 'd been out together since the alleged phone-calls , and if there 'd been any more since then she had n't mentioned it . |
| 9 | Matters of town planning , of course , and all local land charges that are exempt from registration are the same as in unregistered conveyancing , and if there has been any development of the property you 'll need to satisfy yourself before exchange that formal town planning and by-law permits will be handed over or inspected on completion . |
| 10 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 11 | Give a statement showing whether or not , as far as the directors are aware , the company is close for taxation purposes and whether there has been any change in that respect since the year end . |
| 12 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 13 | Pursuant to the reply that the Minister gave earlier to the hon. Member for Ross , Cromarty and Skye ( Mr. Kennedy ) , and as there has been much speculation that there will be no GATT settlement at all this year , will the Minister confirm that , should there be no GATT settlement , he will oppose the MacSharry proposals for the rest of this year ? |
| 14 | Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out . |
| 15 | But if there had been any doubt in my mind it would have been immediately resolved by my first breath of the crisp , tangy air . |
| 16 | But while there has been little analysis of the social relations of earlier , equally formal though smaller , or less formal and indeed informal institutions and associations , there ought to be some theoretical hesitation . |