Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [pron] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start , right , erm all her clothes then right and I mean loads of them are ones they 're really horrible like but she just hangs them here , I thought well you ca n't wear them , you know , all horrible , you do n't wear them fold them , put them away |
| 2 | I 'm Nigel I 'm Chief Executive of the National Charity Community of Transport which is based in Manchester , and it 's that last point which is really significant behind my question , and it concerns your new premises and , I 'm one it 's a question as to what your planning to do , and secondly , a request if you 're not , er , that you could provide within that some working space for people from out of town , to use when we 're in London , complete with things like , you know , coin operated fax machines , because I find I spend quite a lot of time in London , you have meetings on successive days , you have time to kill , and there 's no where sort of , comfortable to go and sit down and get on with some things . |
| 3 | that we 've erm , firstly , I want to say hello , I 'm Roger I 'm with the your policies . |
| 4 | It does erm yes , it does , in fact my husband was out there erm in Tel Aviv on a course about a year ago erm and I you know I 'm beginning to think I 'm goodness I 'm glad it was last year and not this year . |
| 5 | As it says I 'm John I 'm marketing director for Northern Europe with . |
| 6 | Right , I 'm Rosemary I am a Technical Leader at Management Services in which is a a fairly new role . |
| 7 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 8 | Well , there are millions of people who are missing from electoral registers , who are people who are entitled to be registered and the problem is probably the greatest among those who are known as attainers and are qualifying for registration at eighteen for the first time in their lives , the numbers of attainers er qualifying has reduced percentage wise , year by year , especially since the introduction of the poll tax and has not been rectified by the measures that remove the poll tax . |
| 9 | and in who 's arms you 're gon na be so darling save the last dance for me . |
| 10 | But do n't forget who 's taking you home and in who 's arms you 're gon na aha oh darling . |
| 11 | So there 's a very interesting study by a person who 's name I 'm going to write on the board okay so or et al nineteen ninety . |
| 12 | I do n't know who 's batteries they are . |
| 13 | Today , one hundred women discuss some of these decisions and try to identify who 's body and who 's baby we 're talking about in different situations . |
| 14 | Yes , so would you accept that Mary-Jane , that , that people may consciously er think for example oh no we 're , we 're , we 're , we 're students we 're having a revolution and this is new but unconsciously they might be following some deep historical precedent ? |
| 15 | Now that we 're lovers we 're closer still . ’ |
| 16 | I wonder if on some distant planet there are creatures who are holding their sides at the prospect of us hurling plates at each other . ’ |
| 17 | So , so there 's that , there 's that kind of incentive behind it and , and , and , and that normal yield is , is gon na operate for three years , if there are improvements we 're still gon na keep that the normal yield tax based exactly the same . |
| 18 | Some of these , no doubt , are very satisfactory to us in our present state of opinion about the constitution of bodies , but there are others which are likely to startle us out of our complacency and perhaps ultimately to drive us out of all the hypotheses in which we have hitherto found refuge into that thoroughly conscious ignorance which is a prelude to every real advance.in knowledge . |
| 19 | Then there are others which are just common sense . |
| 20 | There are others which are open to anyone who has the ingenuity to think of them . |
| 21 | There are others which are implicit in the type of system described here . |
| 22 | There are others who are dead , Paul Newman 's son , Mary Tyler Moore 's son — there are a lot of casualties . |
| 23 | There are others who are not too worried about that , but who crave a good time . |
| 24 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 25 | Then there are others who are satisfied with superficial information because they feel that if more is revealed then conflict could arise in the family . |
| 26 | There are others who are doing research which might lead to erm developments in the communications industry in twenty years from now , or in ten years from now . |
| 27 | There are others who are working on erm ways in which banknotes can be , the lifetime of banknotes and library books erm in the paper industry can be erm lengthened , so that our erm library books will last longer . |
| 28 | First , there are connections which are established through the arrangement of information within each clause and the way this relates to the arrangement of information in preceding and following clauses and sentences ; these contribute mainly to topic development and maintenance through thematic and information structures . |
| 29 | Again , the skill of writing is often taken for granted , yet there are adults who are handicapped because they can not write their name . |
| 30 | As well as colleges who offer a distance learning route , with college support , there are colleges who are offering more structured combinations of self-study and college support to meet individual and industry demand . |