Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I know it 's an inverse , well he said if you know it 's an inverse you 're half way there |
| 2 | erm The reason why we moved the amendment on this is er Jim been and that has , we started to query the figures I did n't get involved in the all this week and th people like Jim , David loads of my attention and the whole er exercise was a fraud they 're all bum figures and when I checked , the figures I have checked here are done by a senior officer when I showed 'im what stuff was being wrong . |
| 3 | shorthand it 's all shorthand notes . |
| 4 | The Malvern Hills have been looked after by the Conservators for around one hundred and ten years.Now they 're asking Parliament for more powers.And it 's that request which has led to controversy . |
| 5 | when you went shopping you could shop everywhere and a quarter of tea it was that price every shop , there was no competitiveness about it |
| 6 | Like most engineering projects , it may have looked good on paper , but in practice it was another thing entirely . |
| 7 | What an absolute pig he was this evening . |
| 8 | Boxing was the only sport I was any good at , but I often wondered , sitting with gloves on waiting for the fight before mine to end , why on earth I did it . |
| 9 | ‘ No wonder they 're all banding together . ’ |
| 10 | It 's not a towing bar it 's another boat . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , in the contemporary English village it is this feeling of having been ‘ taken over ’ by outsiders that usually prevails among the agricultural population and with it not only a sense of ‘ loss of community ’ , but an inevitable animus against the invasion of ‘ furriners ’ . |
| 12 | I done a one the other day that was twenty five pence it was some charity thing . |
| 13 | Were you thinking that broadcasting it was another piece of the pattern ? ’ |
| 14 | Course eventually the , I mean , there was er there was Sergeant who was a butcher out the High Street there was Alf was a barber out of the High Street there was er Frank , Frank he was another butcher out of the High Street there was er miners er teachers , I mean there was quite a mixture of occupations in , in the , in the Home Guard . |
| 15 | Daddy I 'm this side |
| 16 | It really put a damper on the whole house and straight away cheered us up and got rid of the edginess we were all feeling . |
| 17 | What a happy band we were that evening . |
| 18 | The only thing see is that it 's all my own tapes they 're such crap ones and like they just sound really bad when they 're recorded on . |
| 19 | In my opinion it is this flexibility which has given English primary education its unique quality . |
| 20 | Him and Mr he was another butcher , he was a wholesaler , and he used to perhaps buy twenty or thirty between them and we used to drive them home from Upware and split them . |
| 21 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 22 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 23 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 24 | but , but the thing is if , if the traffic 's gon na be heavy , if it thinks we 're gon na get stuck in traffic , if you 've got a G T I you 're that type of driver you 've got that type of power , you can sort of pass and save a bit of time |
| 25 | But this day he was all action , stepping right up to Nick and thumping him hard . |
| 26 | In research into effective managers it is this background theme which correlates positively with success , not the recognition theme . |
| 27 | Operating in sections it 's corporals and below who if they are to encoutner problems it 's those sort of ranks who 'll have to fix it . |
| 28 | Because of these problems it was some time before satisfactory reporting procedures were developed . |
| 29 | For a short while it 's all sunshine and roses . |
| 30 | At Old Trafford it is all football , whether they dominate with it , or hit teams on the break through the pace of wingers Lee Sharpe , Ryan Giggs and Andrei Kanchelskis . |