Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first I want to say how sorry I am that I had to send Dawn to you instead of coming myself as I promised . |
| 2 | Erm so I 'm not quite sure how representative I am but er I think they do this every forty years or something and then they kind of analyse the sort of speech content , that sort of stuff . |
| 3 | ‘ When That I Was But a Little Tiny Boy ’ . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Hick , 63 : ‘ I can never remember how old I am but I 've just learnt to swim and that 's made me feel younger . ’ |
| 5 | He asked me how old I was and I said , ‘ forty-five ’ or whatever I was . |
| 6 | The only one of relevance is condition 2 which is as follows : |
| 7 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 8 | ‘ The fact she ran after the thieves shows how brave she is and how cowardly they are . ’ |
| 9 | But I think , I mean they seem , these people had a , a jurisdiction of between ten to fifty si fifty or sixty thousand people , now so th th he 's , Mao 's saying that not all of them are , are evil , not all of them are , it 's only some who are but I think every sixty thousand more than likely are gon na look at theirs as being the evil one , that they are going to want to , to overthrow . |
| 10 | Du n no how old she is but looks good on it anyway erm the erm the er let's do these these bits of paper er lost cats and dogs and things . |
| 11 | She needs to hide from reality but she also does n't want Mitch to see how old she is and the truth that she is hiding from : |
| 12 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 13 | But Brown Owl forgot that one of the questions on it asked how old you are and that it is rude to ask a lady how old she is . |
| 14 | I nearly forgot how old you are when I was putting you in the book . |
| 15 | Okay Mrs erm , can you tell me how old you were when you started your first job ? |
| 16 | One of the advantages of shooting a video like this one is that the events group themselves quite naturally into sequences which advance the story in a way which your audience will have no difficulty in following . |
| 17 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 18 | Erm , the advantage of this one is that you can , it 's obviously just plain memo sheet , you can insert a page from this pad into any diary spread , and it would n't mask the date information at the top . |
| 19 | Yeah , what I like , the thing with this one is that we would n't have again would we ? |
| 20 | Well , I , I , the , the , the great thing about it , and this is , this is where so many press releases go wrong , the great thing about this one is that it is brevity . |
| 21 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 22 | Let's say we 've got erm this one is If that 's thirteen and this one is twelve right mm with a bit of luck that should be a right angle ish . |
| 23 | Erm this first two we 'd tell people the answers to , so what answer would this one be that times by ten and all that happens . |
| 24 | So er then I wonder how much a weekly one was but it 's twenty one sixty a week |
| 25 | no it 's not , mum says you 've got to fill in a form and say who 's talked and how old we are and |
| 26 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 27 | Just check their influences and you get an idea as to how open-minded they are when it comes to plying their act , as Rob offers . |
| 28 | When we meet , we seem to go in circles ; we 're great at telling the others how wrong they are or how to solve the problem , but we are not prepared to give in a bit and make the necessary compromises . |
| 29 | I know how demanding they are and that they only expect the best . ’ |
| 30 | The main aim of this project is to examine the relationship between parents ' facial expressiveness ( ie how facially expressive they are when feeling emotional ) and their children 's skill in decoding non verbal information ( in this case , their ability to recognise emotions from others ' facial expressions ) . |