Example sentences of "[vb base] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I suppose they 're all boys really , I mean are all boys like this really ? |
| 2 | Well , different utilities , different roads are being destroyed , bridges , I mean are these things going on ? |
| 3 | I mean are these noodles or |
| 4 | That their duvet cover is made of the Russian flag and the Union Jack can be passed by ; better are such details as the fact that Russians call spam ‘ Roosevelt smile ’ ; the question of whether Down 's syndrome chidren are known as Mongols in the USSR , and a dispute over private medicine : ‘ You think I 've fled 1,000 miles from scientific communism just to live with Mrs Engels ? ’ asks Slava . |
| 5 | what I suggest is these procedures are , we briefly mentioned this this morning , are supposed to reflect the best practice of what we do now . |
| 6 | Oh I 've done about four , but we were having trouble with he want 's some books he likes books , but wo n't give us a clue and |
| 7 | What they forget is that rationality is opposed to absurdity , not to mystery . |
| 8 | The man as I say is all Raskolnikov . |
| 9 | What you want is that sugar stuff what they 'll take back to nest . |
| 10 | Well what we really want is more roads . |
| 11 | This is n't about changing the company ; what people want is more money … ’ |
| 12 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 13 | ‘ There is quite a sameness in high street stores in Britain , ’ he told the Clothes Show Magazine , ‘ whereas what customers really want is more individuality . |
| 14 | All I want is some idea of why he tucks himself away down here in general practice running a one-man show — ’ |
| 15 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
| 16 | Now all we want is some bread and some onions an' we 're set . |
| 17 | All I want is some cigarettes . ’ |
| 18 | All I want is some action , and I do n't mean the action of my facial muscles working overtime in order to produce streams of bullshit . |
| 19 | Personal idiosyncracies are not relevant here : what really matter are those sentiments and axiomatic patterns of thought and action which come , as we would say ‘ naturally ’ , as a result of having been brought up or ‘ socialized ’ in a particular society and culture . |
| 20 | look is that digging up , |
| 21 | Subsequent of that of course to meet the need we had Stage Directions come into being very vibrant thrusting young people theatre 's company and really what 's happen is that Stage Directions in part anyway has taken over the mantle of the old Harlow youth theatre . |
| 22 | The major defence pollsters give is that quota samples generally predict the outcome of elections pretty well . |
| 23 | So complete was this victory that it ensured a kind of uneasy peace for nearly three years . |
| 24 | He left England on 27 October and two days later he lectured at Hamburg on " The Idea of a Christian Society " ; the tour , which he made with Arnold Toynbee , included visits to nine cities , but he complained later that not the least exhausting part of it had been the expectation from his hosts that lie was some kind of oracle as well as a poet . |
| 25 | All that we know is that nurse prescribing will cost a bit more in medication . |
| 26 | All I know is that love , falling in it and out of it , and everything in between , is a fascinating subject to me and to many of my guests . |
| 27 | ‘ All I know is that Himmler wants you out of here . ’ |
| 28 | All I know is that friendship with a woman is quite , quite different from any relationship you may have with a man . |
| 29 | The hypocrite offers the gull a surface falseness which he penetrates to discover ‘ a truth ’ , but which we know is another falseness . |
| 30 | Since intransitive verbs do not specify , as transitive verbs usually do , a cause-effect relationship , the impression we get is that movement is divorced from purpose : all the strident activity of the industrial scene seems to be self-generating and uncontrolled . |