Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 2 | We are lonely and isolated so we accept the informal group 's dictates about ‘ how we get on here ’ with little evaluation . |
| 3 | Women are advised to tell the emergency phone operator if they are alone and to wait where they are not immediately visible to approaching traffic . |
| 4 | You can change the tension on either or both of the carriages , though I tend to be lazy and change only one ! |
| 5 | The various parts of society are seen to be interrelated and taken together they form a complete system . |
| 6 | You need to be selective and judge when it is appropriate to assert your rights . |
| 7 | It 's very important to be precise and know exactly what you 're talking about on these , cos you 'll get |
| 8 | It 's no good sitting down and moaning and , and being depressed and saying well I wo n't do that I wo n't do that . |
| 9 | If the top were to accuse the subordinates of being suspicious and covering up their suspiciousness , that could clearly upset the division heads . |
| 10 | When she was being important and rushing around she would push them up into her hair . |
| 11 | Wolski shuddered at the grim scene , made worse by this normally peaceful African tawny eagle being angry and stressed over nothing he could see . |
| 12 | He is put down by Gloucester for being illegitimate and ignored so one can not really blame him for seeking revenge against the wrong done to him and for his bitter character . |
| 13 | They were excellent and built up my strength nicely . |
| 14 | Be brave and list out your recent failures . |
| 15 | Just be patient and look around you . ’ |
| 16 | But , although the common ground is large and includes almost everything said in the first eight chapters about how to fill in the framework and conduct the disputes , unity then becomes too much for us . |
| 17 | For , as Leavis remarked , a great writer knows he is great and cares little what others think : whereas a minor writer , one might add , cares very much indeed . |
| 18 | it 's disheartening , it 's disheartening but do exactly what Amanda says , wait until September when all the colleges are in the paper , the colleges have got to be filled up , they get budgets and they got to fill them up , the colleges up with |
| 19 | An early knowledge of the panel requirements is essential when starting up your personal injury department . |
| 20 | Foundationalism , viewed quite generally ( though here we must exclude Wittgenstein ) , can be seen as the expression of the empiricist thought that verification and justification , telling whether something is true and backing up one 's claims about what is true , must rely eventually upon the evidence of one 's senses ; not in the first instance , maybe , but at the end of the day . |
| 21 | This last example of a conclusion is lengthy but notice how it confronts the question . |
| 22 | All we wanted was proof that John was alive and to know why he was being held , but government policy was so rigid that there could be no contact , no discussions . |
| 23 | I went to him and said I was sorry and held out my hand , but he would n't take it . |
| 24 | His blond hair was n't short cropped like the others , but was curly and fell over his collar . |
| 25 | It was warm and ran down their bodies in rivulets . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't understand , ’ whined Rose , who was cold and wondering when she would be offered another piece of chicken . |
| 27 | Her hair was loose and hung on her shoulders , a burning bush . |
| 28 | The governing body was concerned that setting up its own separate committee structure would not only be perceived as competing with the existing structure ( with all the attendant risks of a developing ‘ us and them ’ mentality where one rarely existed before ) , but would also be repetitive . |
| 29 | All this begging for money was time-consuming and degrading so I decided to concentrate on finding work . |
| 30 | Jack Backhouse , a jet lad scarcely in his teens , was drunk and smashed up his father 's house A letter in 1853 claimed Whitby was infested with thieving ‘ city arabs , cast out of their homes , orphans by day and burthens by night ’ . ’ |