Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What brought Karen and I together was sex , but sex in Dennis 's shadow , agitprop sex , perilous , defiant and liberating . |
| 2 | Could I really be part of a war machine ? |
| 3 | Milovan Djilas , who observed both Stalin and Tito at close quarters , has made the point that self-abasement too is necessary to the system : everyone is loyal to the leader , owes everything to his inspiration , is worthless without him , until someone else is leader : that someone suddenly loses his modesty . |
| 4 | which alone is happiness , |
| 5 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 6 | Don Neely said that Crowe was asked at this time whether he was available for the World Cup if somebody else were skipper : ‘ I wo n't tell you his reaction . |
| 7 | It is not too awful to be confronted with people cleverer than oneself ( in science journalism it happens quite a lot ) but it is intolerable to share the world with people who apparently are party to bodies of knowledge and ways of thinking that make all one 's own ideas seem petty . |
| 8 | Right erm would you normally be room ? |
| 9 | You just been brush since then ah |
| 10 | Have you ever been part of a syndicate taking part in the pools ? |
| 11 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 12 | You really are mother ! |
| 13 | Are n't you simply being alarmist ? |
| 14 | They do convince you there is life after work , and make one look forward to staying with JS as a veteran . |
| 15 | He lies beside the collapsed body , crying , ‘ Who else must be let blood , who else is rank . ’ |
| 16 | He 'd raised his arms in a gesture of possession , and , even though she 'd known it was all part of a beautifully sculpted drama , Shannon had felt a thrill deep inside , as though she too were part of the kingdom the Viking had taken for his own . |
| 17 | Judge Hart gave Yvonne Scott an 18-month sentence , suspended for three years , but he said he had no doubt she too was part of the ‘ den of thieves ’ . |
| 18 | It is interesting therefore to note that the chief emotional and behavioural characteristic of them both is timidity , fearfulness , and retreat in the face of perceived danger . |
| 19 | Just as we individually are simul justus et peccator so is the Church — holy in Christ , yet sinful in itself . |
| 20 | We really were world leaders in all respects . |
| 21 | It 's simply to test cos if this side of the graph , if that one there is knowledge this one here is time . |
| 22 | That something there was holden up to view |
| 23 | And the one across was monopoly there 's no way it can fit is there ? |
| 24 | The one thing that pots give you above everything else is versatility . |
| 25 | Everything else is history . |
| 26 | Everything else was junk . |
| 27 | Erm number one asking for the completion had been worthwhile , very good there , reminded er John why , yeah that was excellent , thought you handled the objection well , you know , about if the person walked through , that was good , everything else was tick tick tick erm sound pretty enthusiastic there , that little extra note , excellent voice , quite enthusiasm again controlled but not appear too pushy , it was very controlled |
| 28 | As far as they could tell , it was the only thing which existed here , wherever " here " was , Everything else was snow ; the white plain . |
| 29 | We too are part of the whole subject area ourselves : our own can be immensely varied , and looking at the various ways people have responded to the natural energies manifesting at ancient sites is central . |
| 30 | But we children thought we too were master horsemen . |