Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Are you well congratulations . |
2 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
3 | Are you still Gardens , yeah ? |
4 | Or are we just creatures of our time , trapped by our failure to see the solutions around the corner of our life-span ? |
5 | Are there indeed links between toilet training and the ‘ anal character ’ ? |
6 | Are there further amendments ? |
7 | What , are there only hotels in south London ? |
8 | Not only are there now departments of journalism and creative writing but the academy is now a central source of employment for many writers ( as witness that modern phenomenon the university novel ) ; its members and ex-members increasingly comprise the major audience for many arts ; and , ‘ English ’ has become a theoretical subject like any other . |
9 | Or are they just actors on a stage ? ’ |
10 | Are they merely providers , acting as a resource for local communities , responding to needs and demands which are often based on past experience of education or have they a duty to seek ways and means of broadening the role of education into areas with which it is not normally associated such as changes in family and community life , the problems of poverty , inequality , and the general lack of local control over the formal decision-making process ? |
11 | Are they only redundancies or is it just a net saving ? |
12 | In the ‘ Where are they now Questions ’ , I was watching a vid. of the Leeds V Arse . |
13 | Bu , are they actually glasses ? |
14 | ‘ Were you just colleagues , or close friends ? ’ |
15 | were there ever occasions when there was one or more in your hay loft ? |
16 | Were there only ladies in the house where you 've been ? ’ |
17 | It is true that the Victoria and Caledonian experiments did not introduce women into an existing office , but neither were they exclusively all-women affairs . |
18 | What , how did how did you collect the songs that you sing then , I mean were they just things that |
19 | But were they really freeholders in the first place ? |
20 | Indeed , in the case of the imitations of Anglo-Saxon coins , provenance has indicated that some groups , previously attributed to the mint at Dublin under Sihtric III because of die links with coins bearing these names , were in fact made in Scandinavia , and that the coins of Sihtric were themselves also imitations . |
21 | Most of the organizations involved are themselves again parts of large conglomerate groups with diversified interests , not necessarily just in the leisure services area . |
22 | Well listen , is it is it just hairpieces that look funny you 've got something against , or have you got something against all sorts of things that men put on their heads ? |
23 | I ca n't eat that , is it only vegetables ? |
24 | Is it only incomers who protest at perceived threats or is there a true grassroots feeling about such changes to their way of life ? |
25 | A new cooker or whatever can be a tremendous boon and investment but before you go out and spend money ask yourself questions about the way you live : is the pace hectic or leisurely ? how many and what sort of meals do you have to provide ? are you far from a good supermarket or freezer centre ? how much time do you have for shopping ? are you out at work all day ? do you grow your own vegetables ? how often do you entertain ? can you spend time on cooking and food preparation or is it always meals in a hurry ? |
26 | Or was it just noises in the skull ? |
27 | Was it mostly women ? |
28 | She hurtled down the north-west turret staircase with a reckless disregard for life and limb , and emerged at the point where she had entered the hall earlier that night — was it only hours ago ? |
29 | Was it only hours since she 'd been wishing that it had ? |
30 | Nor was it only characters in novels who were afflicted by the malaise . |