Example sentences of "[adv] be [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The money they are putting back in is money they are taking out , through cuts in funding of the Royal Hospital , the Home Help service , the social fund and the health service in general .
2 Elsewhere , other strategies will roll out in two to three months Pyramid says , and in a years or so 's time it claims it 'll have servers capable of competing with IBM mainframe class systems .
3 Well I said it 'll soon be Christmas she said yes not quite four weeks she said .
4 It is submitted on behalf of the father and the grandmother that , if an order were not made , C. would go to the grandmother and the care which would then be given to him would not be care which would cause suffering of harm and that , therefore , the second limb of the threshold condition is not made out .
5 She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter .
6 Something that came up yesterday was interview you had , and Graham to make the comment , and he , he was trying to make the point that he , what he said , what he recommended , would have to be taken up by the council , and actually by the council when it happened .
7 There should also be legislation which will protect older people against bad practice and abuse in both private and public residential care and nursing homes and in hospitals .
8 ‘ You do n't have to take the dishes out of the dishwasher and put them in the dish rack and then take the cutlery out of its little plastic box and then put it in the cutlery drawer making sure that the spoons go in one compartment and the knives in another compartment and the forks in another compartment except there are always forks in the spoons compartment and knives in the forks compartment when you get there so it 's hopeless it 's always too late to get things right it 's a total frost honestly is life you are a lot better off dead in my opinion .
9 All we can do now is help ourselves . ’
10 All you can really do now is salvage what you can .
11 ‘ It really is time he got on with running his own business and let us run ours .
12 ‘ Maybe it really is time I settled down , ’ he said , holding her at arm 's length and smudging her tears away with his thumb .
13 All she had done the night before was make herself a sugar sandwich .
14 Princey and Dukey , here are mum you 'll probably do it better than me Prince and Duke and pussy cats
15 If it had n't been dope it would have been valium : what 's the difference ?
16 Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time .
17 Here 's prince I finded it prince
18 The main problem here is ammonia which is excreted by all fish and produced by the breakdown of once living matter ( plants , food , dead creatures ) in your tank .
19 Jess erm , how is thingy me bob ?
20 And the one across was monopoly there 's no way it can fit is there ?
21 On good soil he could probably plough two or three acres in a day , but on the more difficult land that had until recently been forest he would be lucky to manage half of this .
22 Although he 's only the second son and will never be king himself , he 's still an important man and very popular , I hear , with many Ruritanians .
23 So too is materialism which is their reason for positing it as a rightful successor to idealism as the method for understanding history .
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