Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seaplanes that do remain are small aircraft , not generally used for scheduled passenger services . |
| 2 | Switching , if I may , from Victorian novelists to more contemporary novelists , who do you think are good novelists of today ? |
| 3 | So in this chapter you will find some pointers for looking at what you might think are everyday activities . |
| 4 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 5 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 6 | It should 've been first thing in morning if that would happen . |
| 7 | It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . |
| 8 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 9 | now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident . |
| 10 | What a shame just Mickey again out on the right hand side , Dean made a great diagonal run in behind the full back and the ball was just a little bit heavy otherwise there could 've been real danger again for Blackburn . |
| 11 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 12 | She didn there would 've been enough change in that and Kath was gon na go straight to the bank and get her some money back , right ? |
| 13 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 14 | In contrast , the rules of dress or of how we eat are unwritten guides to behaviour . |
| 15 | Moreover , what we perceive far exceeds what actually interacts with our nervous system ; for what interacts with our nervous systems is occurrent energy and what we perceive are continuant objects ( see earlier , p. 98 ) . |
| 16 | Also calculated are various indices of readability , including Flesch-Kincaid , Flesch Reading Ease , Gunning 's Fog Index , and the LIX factor . |
| 17 | The only freedoms of the truly enslaved are subtle subversion and private dissent . |
| 18 | Among the many others honoured are Olympic oarsman Matthew Pinsent , a lock-keeper who created the Pooh Sticks championships and a typist who works in an insolvency department . |
| 19 | Now , what we do n't want are detailed particulars of the shop , the salesperson 's home address and physical attributes . |
| 20 | Attached to this plant and the dye it produces are several beliefs which are especially pertinent to the families of fishermen . |
| 21 | The worst to paint are insecure people , either outwardly or inwardly , ‘ you can feel that they are uncomfortable with themselves ’ . |
| 22 | At present being excavated are two houses in the centre of the settlement . |
| 23 | What the notion is intended to emphasise are those issues to do with the how and the why of sociology 's empirical reference . |
| 24 | Also listed are possible courses of subsequent development for each margin subtype . |
| 25 | Also listed are definite faults , which we would hope to discourage and which are penalized heavily . |
| 26 | There is not an abundance of thatched cottages in the wolds , but those that do exist are real gems . |
| 27 | Resting , sleeping and generally vegetating are obvious ways of unwinding . |
| 28 | Now the choices and values are not only what I trust are right choices and correct beliefs ; they are my choices , my beliefs , my convictions |
| 29 | Typically , the figurines which they made are 20 centimetres high and depict worshippers in attitudes of adoration , or reclining goats , or cattle . |
| 30 | But I suppose they 're all boys really , I mean are all boys like this really ? |