Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italians think of the state system much as Britons used to regard ‘ Auntie ’ and not for nothing is it known as ‘ Mamma RAI ’ . |
| 2 | Shiva is a bad-tempered chap — not for nothing is he known as ‘ the Destroyer ’ . |
| 3 | Not for nothing was it dubbed the ‘ Triumph Snag ’ . |
| 4 | Not for nothing was she dubbed BB — pronounced Bébé . |
| 5 | Not for nothing was she known as ‘ Whiplash Wallace ’ . |
| 6 | Not for nothing was he known as Windy — when upset he really did ‘ blow his top ’ but his bark was worse than his bite — he was an excellent teacher and took both Standards Six and Seven . |
| 7 | The best thing about them is their smell . |
| 8 | Their turnover rate is somewhat slower than undergravels and what could be worrying about them is their ability to deal with sudden surges in load . |
| 9 | The LP has just confirmed the fact that the most interesting thing about them is their hard-earned reputation as the hell-raising punks that everyone loves to hate . |
| 10 | After the heights scaled in that quarter-final , Ireland plunged to six feet under in this match proving , in the course of the game , that the only predictable thing about them is their unpredictability . |
| 11 | Precisely what she disliked most about them was what interested him ; she knew that he wondered whether they could be persuaded to become sleeping partners in the revolution a phrase which she used and he approved with a dry smile and a nod . |
| 12 | The nicest thing about them were their names . |
| 13 | All we keep getting off them is I says , you mean to say , we 're paying two and half thousand pounds worth of repairs , I says , and they 're not done ? |
| 14 | Er who for whom is it a benefit ? |
| 15 | For whom is it of value ? |
| 16 | " On reading the [ General ] Statute , " wrote Herzen 's collaborator Nikolai Ogarev , " the first question you involuntarily ask yourself is : for whom is it written ? " |
| 17 | The things they like about me are my gai-jin attitudes , and they laugh at a lot of my conclusions , I 'm sure — not to my face , but among themselves . |
| 18 | So for example if I was doing Saint Paul 's I 'd say right erm erm I 'm a building in the City of London , very old , very big and extremely famous on of the most obvious things that really stand out about me is my very large domed roof with a little cross on top of it . |
| 19 | About that and about me being his girlfriend . |
| 20 | One physiological process of the leather corals which must be considered when designing an aquarium for them is their mechanism for excreting waste products . |
| 21 | And th th there 's more but I mean the facilities for them is there ? |
| 22 | Right this is a new thing for experimental work that we 're doing for them is it ? |
| 23 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 24 | In this connection it is significant that the main 1979 survey showed that , if people themselves have not decided to start with which type of credit arrangement they were going to use ( in their most recent major credit transaction ) the most common source of suggestion for them was someone in the shop . |
| 25 | Drawn up waiting for them were their friends : the men landed early that morning by their companion ships at the mouth of the Leven . |
| 26 | As for them being my mates they 're not . |
| 27 | About whom is he speaking ? |
| 28 | For both countries , the special relationship between them is their primary foreign policy priority , and the European Community remains principally an instrument of their foreign policy needs . |
| 29 | The difference between them is I have to admit at this level , relatively marginal in terms of er which is the worst and which is the best between the three . |
| 30 | The relations between them are what matter . |