Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun sg] [prep] [indef pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Poverty , deepest wisdom , you are slave to nothing , |
| 2 | Add brains to that particular package , and you 're dynamite to someone like Jason Prior . |
| 3 | She 's kind to everyone , puts everyone before herself , is all things to all people — mother to James , wife to her husband … |
| 4 | She was larger than life , she had seen the world , she was game for anything , she was jolly and vibrant , spoke her mind ; all in all , she was fun to be with . |
| 5 | There 's element of everything , there 's a straight f—in' ska piece in one song , and I 've lifted bits from Phillip Glass and Enya and Twin Peaks . |
| 6 | There 's work in plenty if we 're to be finished on time . |
| 7 | As the worker of one Disability Arts Forum says , ‘ There 's integration on anyone 's terms and there 's integration on our terms , and on our terms we 'll get it right . |
| 8 | There 's another =nother thing about any course but particularly this one where there 's sort of lots of subjects and a bit of overlap it is difficult to get a good system for organizing your notes but it is essential . |
| 9 | Further , it is only for the kingdom of the Burgundians that there is evidence for anything like an all-embracing comital structure , and while most , if not all , Merovingian civitates must have had their comites , or in the north , their graphiones , in all probability local administration could vary according to regional tradition and to the will of an individual king , whose main concern was to ensure the loyalty of and to realize the revenues from his civitates . |
| 10 | But around the 1400-ft contour , there is excitement in plenty although it is not at first apparent . |
| 11 | In examples ( h.7 ) and ( h.8 ) there is reference to someone working on an idea or being puzzled . |
| 12 | Secondly , all the members of the Community have agreed — I think without exception — that there will be no agreement on anything until there is agreement on everything . |
| 13 | There is room for everyone and you will be made very welcome . |
| 14 | Fourteen people attended the first meeting last week but Phyllis Horsley , a member of the Darlington Trust said : ‘ There is room for everyone ; we need more people who can help with conservation work , people who can help record data on local animals and plants , and older people who just want to help raise money . ’ |
| 15 | If we only opened a door partly er there is room for somebody to hide behind it and then when we go into the room then we would encounter problems . |
| 16 | ‘ In your brother 's papers there is mention of something your father told him about a year ago which greatly surprised and puzzled him . |
| 17 | There were more puris — a whole basketful — eaten with hot spicy potatoes , fried in mustard oil brought back from Aula , and there was rice for everyone , and an emerald green soup of wild young ka kani leaves . |
| 18 | There was work for everyone . |
| 19 | Suddenly there was work for everybody and the deaf community took full advantage of this change of climate , as reported in the 1944 annual report : The effect of the war on industry has given the deaf and dumb opportunities such as they had never enjoyed for many years and it is with great pleasure that the committee places on record the excellent work the deaf Have done . |
| 20 | It was difficult , in any of this , to discover what a future socialist or communist society would be like ; if there was consensus about anything it was that it would not be based upon public ownership , would not be dominated by a single ruling party , would not supersede capitalism and might not even offer an alternative to it . |
| 21 | There was purpose in everything they said . |
| 22 | There was silence until one proposed ‘ absconding ’ . |
| 23 | I doubt whether this is done deliberately , but I think it 's part of everybody 's perception of science in schools that girls do biology and boys do chemistry and physics , and I suppose this is bound to have its affect on people 's choices , but I personally , and I think most of my colleagues would agree with me on this , see no reason to suppose that girls should be any less good at chemistry and physics than boys . |
| 24 | It 's money for nothing and danger-free as long as you keep shut . ’ |
| 25 | It 's time for everyone to have a super time ! |
| 26 | Another feeling , which is much more likely if you talk about my character , would be that I ca n't give anything more to this ensemble , that it 's time for someone fresher to guide these people in the right direction . |
| 27 | They can also be rated in kilowatts and on mopeds cos the regulation allow sort of what mopeds sixteen year olds can ride and I think it 's sort of something like seventy kilowatts or ninety kilowatts , it might be ninety . |
| 28 | Erm it 's sort of nought minus that figure . |
| 29 | Even if none of it is proof of anything , yet you may see something there that I have not seen . |
| 30 | Kenny does the same , and he relates animal wants to Aristotle 's notion of epithumia , or sensual desire : ‘ It is felt desire , and it is desire for something now , desire which is more or less continuously felt until it is satisfied ( like hunger , sleepiness , thirst ) ’ ( 1975 : 49 ) . |