Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant .
2 six months was down to the two three pounds under the weight I was when I started .
3 ‘ The vote I 'm after is the Christian patriot ’ , he avowed .
4 It is reasonable to assume that an alarming number of dolphin deaths must be occurring around the coasts of the continent which are as yet unreported .
5 When you apply for a grant , be it by way of proving a will or of administration which is when there is an intestacy , part of the er documentation is an oath where you swear as to the size of the estate .
6 In chapter thirty Hilton 's analysis of the process of reformation of feeling comes to a climax as he brings together the implications of his analysis and imagery in a synthesis embodying his full sense of the process of contemplative life as lived discovery of the meaning of the Incarnation.The experience of the darkness reveals to the soul its essence which is that its being does not inhere in the dimensions of time : " for soule is no body bot a lif vnseable " ( 30.102r. – 252 ) and has its own mode of knowing that is not entirely dependent on bodily senses or imagination .
7 So Chairman I offer in lieu of three point one , the formal recommendation an alternative recommendation which is as follows , it is recommended that further consultation take place with Norfolk County Council and Breckland District Council at
8 A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai .
9 Gillian paused , changed gear , pursed those lips which were and yet were n't at all like her mother 's lips , and said , ‘ She waits . ’
10 Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished .
11 There is an inherent danger in all this for our clothing industry which is that , unless manufacturers wake up , there will continue to be far more opportunity for European merchandise to come here , and little for ours to get elsewhere .
12 ( 3 ) The losses against which a recognised body is required to insure under this Rule are all losses arising from claims in respect of civil liability incurred in the practice of the recognised body by the recognised body or by any of its officers or employees or former officers or employees or by any solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or was a consultant to or associate in the body 's practice or is or was working in the practice as an agent or a locum tenens ; save that a recognised body shall not be required to insure against losses arising from claims of a type excluded , by the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies , from being afforded indemnity by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund .
13 for use by a solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or proposes to become a member of and/or a beneficial owner of a share or shares in a body corporate seeking recognition or already recognised under the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 .
14 Mediation , managerial direction , and procedural controls internal to the institution itself are but some of the other forms which decision-making could take .
15 Here , then , are two more of the group of " preliminary studies " from which BT was to emerge ; and indeed a letter to Wagner later that year refers to " The Dionysiac Philosophy " , in precisely such terms , as a Vorstudium , Whatever remains of the course on Oedipus Rex itself is as yet unpublished .
16 The BDDA , therefore , at the Glasgow Congress acquired a President who was and remained prominent in the deaf world until his gradual retirement , following the award of the MBE for " meritorious services to the deaf " , in 1945 .
17 My understanding is what we 're trying to achieve is , to have a a a double-sided A four sheet , which is intended to demonstrate to our clients , what good lads we are and what good work we do for each in each function .
18 When you have decided who is speaking , tell them all how many speakers there are and in which order they are speaking .
19 Big lads they were and all .
20 Oh what action they are and what what 's that ?
21 It 's just the words they 're after you see .
22 Lovely bedrooms they were but she 'd keep saying she wanted to go out like , you know .
23 That was the interesting thing that said to Alistaire last night that a three column centimetres depending on which periodical it is or paper it 's in can do you far more good or damage than twenty at another .
24 You have an opportunity through experience for knowing better than anyone else what is at stake and how much effort it takes , and what a loss it is if you do n't do everything you can to make your partner contented .
25 The car he was after stopped at a junction , so Chris jumped out and reached into their window and grabbed the keys .
26 To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother .
27 To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother .
28 I 've heard you selling the guy that showed you these two manifestos one by the Tories and one by the Labour and the one that stuck in my mind it 's that the Labour Party will have a minimum wage to comply with the rest of Europe .
29 no need for painkillers he was that surprised , he was that surprised the way , of the way he did it , he got brutally treated with
30 You do n't seem to be sure whose fault it is but ‘ let's blame Paul anyway . ’
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