Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
| 2 | And again to spell that out erm the way it needs to work in practice I believe is that in its local plan a local authority should be able to define a site which it would regard as suitable for development only for these strategically important reasons . |
| 3 | ‘ The remedies we examined were all equally good and should relieve the classic symptoms of a hangover , ’ said Sue Leggate , editor of Which ? . |
| 4 | The large fishing vessels we saw were all well maintained with modern equipment . |
| 5 | The force he unleashed was that of insubordination . |
| 6 | From Penhill Crags , where the only bones I saw were those of a less than gigantic sheep , we walked by the disused quarry to Stony Gate and the old drove road of Morpeth Gate , now a peaceful broad green lane and very pleasant walking . |
| 7 | The bold make-up she affected was all wrong today ; it hid nothing , and accentuated the harsher signs of ageing . |
| 8 | And how the only strokes they knew were those they practised on each other 's bodies . ) |
| 9 | The Court could find no evidence that the parties intended to be liable on the contracts of the International Tin Council ; the obligations they envisaged were those they owed to the Council itself and not to third party creditors . |
| 10 | Another discovery he claimed was that of a cure for glanders : one horse had remained ‘ cured ’ for four years after treatment with what was popularly known as ‘ Sewell 's Blue Broth ’ — three ounces of copper sulphate in a quart of water . |
| 11 | The other decision she made was that , on the one-per-cent chance that it was n't a fool 's errand she was on , since it was uphill for most of the way and she did n't want to arrive hot and sticky , she would take a taxi up , and walk down . |
| 12 | But the broad gist of the point I think is this . |
| 13 | Among the films I brought was that of the Scharnhorst and when its showing time was listed in the ship 's paper , I was informed that one of the passengers , a Captain Danckwerts , had been the Scharnhorst 's wartime assistant navigating officer . |
| 14 | The first body I saw was that of a man lying in a gutter in Raouche , his arms wrapped around his face , one leg hooked above the pavement . |
| 15 | One of the weaknesses we find is that marketing is the skill most frequently lacking . ’ |
| 16 | When our informants were encouraged to think of their own society in terms of groups or categories , the most basic distinction they made was that of sex and age . |
| 17 | Although we can not go into the technicalities of Ohmann 's method , it is worth mentioning that the apparatus he used was that of an earlier version of Transformational Grammar , one which subsequently underwent profound modifications . " |
| 18 | As we have seen , a waiter at a hotel implies that the wine he offers is that of the hotel and not his own : Doukas , above , and in Silverman there was an implied representation that a quote was fair in the circumstances of mutual trust . |
| 19 | Every little noise we thought was another assault wave of killer mice . |
| 20 | One of the problems you see is that |
| 21 | The name Heryng is found often connected with Halling and another name we find is that of John Hostier , who in 1268 , was bailiff here , for in this year he was questioned over the Bishop 's land at Halling . |
| 22 | They argue further that it should be possible to eliminate the long-term effect by a procedure designed to extinguish a context — stimulus association — the procedure they used was that of giving a period of exposure to the context alone between initial exposure to the target and the conditioning phase . |
| 23 | The Prague School 's and Jakobson 's assumption is that the structures they describe are all objectively present in literature , and can be perceived by anyone who reads with sufficient skill and attention . |
| 24 | ‘ One of the things he did was this : On the quiet he 'd heat up the ends of two thin iron rods . |
| 25 | One of the first things he found was that golf is not something that can be watched that closely . |
| 26 | Attached to this plant and the dye it produces are several beliefs which are especially pertinent to the families of fishermen . |
| 27 | The certain mystique it had was much more than just Cowboys and Indians on television . |
| 28 | On the face of it , the argument I think is this , the words , oh my God he 's come for are hearsay , sorry , are not hearsay , because although they 're an out of court statement they 're not introduced as the truth . |
| 29 | The people you meet are all in VR themselves — the meeting is in VR , so is the band , so is the audience . |
| 30 | Anyway , the people she met were all in a hurry , striding along with heads down in the rain , and no one appeared to notice her . |