Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some researchers with whom discussions have been held admit to copying theses obtained on inter-library loan , and justify such behaviour by saying that ‘ it 'll be all right as long as I do n't publish ’ . |
| 2 | Many of the prisoners to whom ITN spoke were too scared to talk in front of the TV cameras . |
| 3 | The workers for whom employers competed were not merely the ones with the bargaining strength to make unions practicable , but also those most aware that ‘ the market ’ alone guaranteed them neither security nor what they thought they had a right to . |
| 4 | The apprentice boys whom Grimes mistreats are attendant angels of his fallen state . |
| 5 | The sort of protection currently offered covers damages for conflict of interest , negligent misstatements , acting beyond the scope of authority and authorising excessive borrowing , failure to supervise others to whom responsibility has been delegated , unauthorised payments and failure to make statutory payments , and errors of judgment not only of negligence . |
| 6 | Savory argued that a stranger to whom money had been paid in breach of trust could only be held liable as a constructive trustee to account for the money after he had parted with it , if it could be shown that he knew the money misapplied was trust money . |
| 7 | The ‘ participants ’ will be 30 children for whom assessment has been requested on account of emotional and behavioural difficulties ( EBD ) , together with the professionals involved in each child 's assessment . |
| 8 | The contact is Georges , the man I mentioned earlier , who told me Edouard had been beaten up . |
| 9 | The number of people in the UK infected with HIV has been estimated to be up to 100,000 , of whom AIDS had been officially reported in 4228 , by January 1991 . |
| 10 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |
| 11 | My plans have been well laid , he wrote . |
| 12 | I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry — it was a dead cert ! |
| 13 | My sons have been booked in to see a speech therapist . |
| 14 | My domino playing was at its peak and all that I was achieving was gained through natural talent . |
| 15 | Perhaps the only creature to rouse what could be construed as a maternal sense in my heart had been the Egyptian cat , and Nour had killed it . |
| 16 | I am always in my very best spirits , for my heart has been as light as a feather ever since I got away from all that humbug ; and , what is more , I have become fatter . |
| 17 | My story has been called ‘ extraordinary ’ , ‘ bizarre ’ and ‘ surrealist ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ He said my hair had been badly cut , ’ says Susan . |
| 19 | I had also , as it were , ‘ fallen in line ’ again , so that although I believed , my faith had been marked by a continuing lack of personal conviction . |
| 20 | My case had been destroyed by a rogue conveyor belt , ’ she said , wanting to explain her unconventional luggage . |
| 21 | JOHN Armstrong 's paintings , ‘ built up of remembered things which in my case have been miscalled surrealist ’ , have a poetic appeal which often beats Dali , Magritte et al at their own game . |
| 22 | The ‘ something ’ in my chest had been identified . |
| 23 | And my chest 's been right sore . |
| 24 | Erm I 've been off work in excess of five years now er add my income has been very very small and whatever award I get will never go ahead and compensate me or my wife for what I 've been through . |
| 25 | I was teaching until 1966 and my experience had been largely directed at explanation . |
| 26 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 27 | All of my experience has been gained on what we know as the fast jets ; in the air defence role I have worked on the Lightning and in the ground attack role with both the Jaguar and Tornado . |
| 28 | My experience has been that entertainers who come for just the show have maximum impact and cause great excitement , especially if they arrive dressed up . |
| 29 | My experience has been that there are a great many people in industrial and other commercial enterprises who want to have insight , and indeed already possess it , into their roles in industry and to contrast these with their roles as citizens . |
| 30 | And my experience has been that virtually all rape cases have been the forcible interference with a woman . |