Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | To-day , I was a guest at 's First ( of many hopefully ) Nativity Plays … she was a musician … for 3½ yr-olds , they were all very good … & disciplined … which as you & I know is HARD WORK ! |
| 2 | I 'm a perfectly engineered Kill machine , which will carry out its orders until they 've been implemented or I 've been destroyed . |
| 3 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 4 | I tried many many times , and hundreds and hundreds of ways to find him , and the man just does n't exist , or I 've been told he does n't exist . |
| 5 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 6 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 7 | You must tell the Department if you become aware that you are suffering from a disease or physical disability not previously disclosed or which has been disclosed but has become more severe . |
| 8 | Alkali soluble soils : are organic soils normally found in heavy layers adhering to surfaces or which have been compacted or allowed to dry out and become hard . |
| 9 | The rest will be given or sold to the public , while those works for which a home can not be found or which have been damaged beyond repair by the years of neglect and the atrocious conditions in which they were kept , will be destroyed in a bonfire . |
| 10 | There are other provisions of the 1981 Act which have either created difficulties in practice ( as in the case of s.8 which is headed ‘ Confidentiality of Jury 's Deliberations ’ ) or which have been interpreted restrictively ( as in the case of s.10 , which is concerned with the protection of journalists ' sources of information ) . |
| 11 | There is an issue between the plaintiffs and the defendants as to whether the contractual provisions to which we have referred entitle the receivers to retain out of the moneys they have received ‘ costs , charges and expenses ’ which are of an unreasonable amount or which have been unreasonably incurred . |
| 12 | He 's particularly concerned about the threatened tropical rain forests and has used materials which are either in abundance , or which have been recycled or reclaimed . |
| 13 | Or you 've been er clouted on the elbow by Jonathan with a hockey stick or something similar . |
| 14 | So it seems that either you are lying as I first suspected , or you 've been deliberately misled . ’ |
| 15 | You 've seen it before yeah that 's right you you recognise it from the shape and and er because you 've either seen pictures of it before or you 've been there . |
| 16 | You 've seen it or you 've been there ? |
| 17 | So y y y you , you , you , you 've got at least three things which are all sort of brewing up there and you think good grief what a , what a , what a state to be in because the poor doctor does n't know what on earth to do , poor Jan does n't know , well it 's worse for Jan cos she 's sitting there thinking I 'm going potty or , you know , ca n't stand properly or you know is leaning over or , or numb down one side of her face or , or or whatever it was , it was i i it was the , the dizziness I think actually which which was most alarming . |
| 18 | Lary means mouthy or she 'd was lary clothes , loud clothes . |
| 19 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 20 | Quite apart from this , the legislation required that the gathering of evidence by other means would be unlikely to succeed , or would be considerably more difficult ; a warrant would apply to only one suspect , so that there were no general warrants ; the warrants would remain in force for three months and thereafter had to be renewed ; and the person concerned generally had to be notified as soon as possible after the surveillance ended that he or she had been the target of such surveillance . |
| 21 | Consultation with the next of kin has a further advantage in that it may reveal information as to the personal circumstances of the patient and as to the choice which the patient might have made , if he or she had been in a position to make it . |
| 22 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
| 23 | Before the prison doors had opened , or she had been stuffed into the hold of that ghastly convict ship , to spend her life scrubbing and cleaning and whoring for rough and dangerous men . |
| 24 | Either he had been pitifully unobservant or she had been expertly deceitful . |
| 25 | Behavioural precursors of schizophrenia included a poor emotional rapport in the psychiatric interview , and parental observations that he or she had been a passive baby , with a short attention span in childhood , and often impolite behaviour , while school reports often noted that the child was isolated , uneasy about criticism , easily upset , and disturbed the class ( Parnas et al. , 1982 ) . |
| 26 | Consequently a widow or widower will enjoy a higher retirement income than if or she had been single when they retired . |
| 27 | Here when a worker suffers mental of physical problems as a result off stress at work , the first thing he or she does is reach for his lawyer . |
| 28 | If a writer has produced a song he or she thinks is a must for Cliff Richard , a major publisher is most likely to get that song where it needs to be in order to interest Cliff . |
| 29 | ( It is sometimes amusing to watch an intellectually inclined teacher , happily aping what he or she thinks is a ‘ Heathcote-type ’ preliminary discussion , thrashing around helplessly incapable of finding a concrete start to the drama . |
| 30 | The professional takes control , makes all of the decisions , selects the information he or she thinks is relevant to the parents , and elicits only certain information that the professional feels is important . |