Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them are rubbish I should think . |
| 2 | Because I am Vegan I will not eat de Rich , |
| 3 | As long as I am President we will continue to lead in support of freedom everywhere , not out of arrogance , and not out of altruism , but for the safety and security of our children . " |
| 4 | Now if I were Alwyn I would not be too proud of winning a competition to see who could use more cliches than anyone else . |
| 5 | If I were Souness I 'd go for the Charles Bronson option . |
| 6 | ‘ If I were manager I would … ’ |
| 7 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 8 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 9 | ‘ If I was Empress I would be a constitutional Empress only , ’ said Pakeezah , drawing herself up . |
| 10 | The only difference they were very well written but they were signed you know Mohammed and which were names I used to go there . |
| 11 | Yet the January , February , March the temperature is high which is temperature I ca n't tell by looking at that , which one 's temperature and which one 's rainfall . |
| 12 | Litter is left on the slope , much of which is plastic which will never breakdown , but will blow around the mountainside for many years . |
| 13 | There are a lot of people out there who are historians who would like to it 's very successful and sometimes people do n't like success . |
| 14 | Sometimes it can be slightly embarrassing to be successful at something , and if you are beginning to turn the occasional head now that you are slimmer you may come in for some negative comments from your rivals . |
| 15 | He told them : " I thank you once again for what you have demonstrated : that you are people who can be counted on , especially in difficult moments . " |
| 16 | ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’ |
| 17 | A number of these things that I have already raised this morning are perhaps are , er primary phase issues rather than secondary but we must remember that the pressures on secondary schools continue as in the primary phase and finally another concern which you are all very well aware of and which particularly if you 're governors you will have drawn to your attention constantly is erm the continuing concern about our educational building stock both in terms of its adequacy as regards the size and the capacity of the accommodation at , where some schools are concerned its need for repair and maintenance work and its need for adaptation to meet the new demands of the curriculum . |
| 18 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 19 | And maybe if you were Mandy you could . |
| 20 | Had we been animals we would have hunted co-operatively , bred regularly and protected one another rigorously . |
| 21 | As we are time-travellers we can peer into the future and notice that it is the professional class that will have the last laugh ; for the ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ( as Marx called them ) took over from the gentry . |
| 22 | Morland said today : ’ The city fully expects us to survive the bid and we are confidant we will still be drinking Old Speckled Hen Beer on Friday . ’ |
| 23 | When we were kids we 'd never of dreamt of this would we ? |
| 24 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 25 | Er I when we were midwives we used to say that was the way to bring a child up but w when you 'd had your own you sort of bent the rules a little bit more . |
| 26 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 27 | All the legends are clearly printed on the keytops in the same colours as the original , the only missing one is Break which ought to be on the Space bar but is n't . |
| 28 | Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’ |
| 29 | There are questions I must ask there . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If you add the £4 for a referee , it is a lot of money , and there are teams which will just fold up because they can not find that kind of money . |