Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew exactly what he meant , though nothing specific had been said . |
| 2 | There was talk of the whole station 's being moved into purpose-built accommodation some time in the future , but so far nothing definite had been arranged , so they were forced to put up with the cramped conditions and lack of amenities , like parking . |
| 3 | But the Treasury issued a counter-statement saying that nothing improper had been asked of civil servants by ministers . |
| 4 | For me this has been a very exciting year in which to take on a directorship of the department . |
| 5 | And as the economic constraints push more and more farmers towards the rationalization of their enterprises the proportion of farmers ( and of the countryside ) to whom this applies is likely to increase . |
| 6 | Comedians Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith went for huge belly laughs as they poked fun at ‘ a small group of people for whom this has been a terrible year — the British tabloid journalists ’ . |
| 7 | For them this has been a matter of necessity . |
| 8 | I 've been having one of my little do 's again with men on the doorstep . |
| 9 | Since my worst failing is an inclination to say ‘ yes , to almost every request , I acceded to this one . |
| 10 | ‘ What am I supposed to have been looking for ? ’ |
| 11 | I received an unexpected parcel in the post the other morning , and my first thought was , is this safe or not . |
| 12 | Back then it was called ‘ nancy boys ’ which was what my father used to call homosexuals , and he thought that all actors were homosexuals , so I could n't tell him that everyone in the company that I first joined was homosexual — except me . |
| 13 | I say apparently because , whether in the areas of art education or of television , to name but two , nothing serious has been undertaken . |
| 14 | Nothing explicit had been said but she knew her relationship with Urquhart had crossed a new frontier : he had become an enemy . |
| 15 | The ability to evaluate the performance of a pupil and adapt to it is a prerequisite of being able to teach , and all Taï mothers appear , in the context of nut-cracking , to do it , though nothing similar has been observed in Gombe . |
| 16 | What these sewers carried was not sanitary ordure — that continued to be collected or even — illegally — dumped in cesspits : for the cost of separating out the effluent so frightened the Municipal Council of the city that even by 1870 nothing much had been done . |
| 17 | Nothing much has been seen of the civilian population since we entered the village on the 6th June . |
| 18 | Nothing much has been lost , we might as well lose in the second round as in the semi-finals ( like two years ago ) . |
| 19 | The research programme , for which 730,000 has been allocated , is being funded largely by the ESRC , with contributions from both the Home Office and DHSS . |
| 20 | And , to take a further example , the range of derivative forms ( using prefixes and suffixes ) which each recognises is dramatically different . |
| 21 | Headteachers were aware of differences of both style and strength among departmental heads and accepted those differences , possibly because the contexts in which each worked were different . |
| 22 | A woman in her thirties has been found dead at her home after a man walked into a police station and said he wanted to talk to detectives . |
| 23 | Although comprising only ten airframes , the collection gives a fascinating glimpse at some early Soviet designs of which little has been heard in the West . |
| 24 | Our data describe a technique which has allowed detailed study of the proliferation compartment of human gastric mucosa , about which little has been published . |
| 25 | The regulatory and statutory framework in which MAS operates is covered as follows : |
| 26 | Erm that said that this part of all ten samples came out the same , ten tree ring dating samples and said the timbers er of which that had been built , had been felled in the spring of thirteen sixty . |
| 27 | I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere . |
| 28 | One way in which this operates is through the coordinating role of banks who can organize a protective safety net during periods of acute financial distress . |
| 29 | The outcome of the Report and the following debate which this generated was a new ERDF Regulation which came into force on 1 January 1985 . |
| 30 | ( 12 ) In principle ( though in practice the degree to which this happens is questionable ) schools continue to develop and extend their coordinated planning of curriculum initiatives and library enhancement . |