Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heard about you being sick and put two and two together — though what the other two was , I 'm damned if I know . |
| 2 | Oh yeah but still you know we got through it was great . |
| 3 | In that case the necessities which account for what is constant in foreign policy are those of the conceptual logic of the explanatory theory . |
| 4 | All citizens need a highly concentrated er episode in their lives where all they do is think about what is right in the circumstances and this will give them good practice , good training to being an enlightened voter . |
| 5 | And what stinks about it is vested interests to the fore . |
| 6 | Not that people used to let you know about they were hard up I mean , they just would n't would they ? |
| 7 | Confidence is hard to measure , so worries about it are easy to dismiss — but when it goes you can generally tell by counting the dole queues . |
| 8 | This African talked of his own change of heart , his vision of God 's multi-racial world , of which Rhodesia is a part ; of how he himself had hated the whites , and had now shed his hate to work for what is right for all . |
| 9 | ‘ Those ethereal Pre-Raphaelite looks of yours are deceptive . ’ |
| 10 | She picked up her cup , and said in a voice as cool as she could make it , ‘ Yes , I have heard of Miss Foy , and what you say of her is true . |
| 11 | ‘ Looks like you 're right about there being a new man at the top , ’ said Carradine , ‘ and he 's just paid you his friendly compliments . ’ |
| 12 | To struggle against it was revolutionary and progressive , whereas to struggle against the objective processes producing a class would be futile and Utopian . |
| 13 | That the environment is not animate enough to want to communicate with us is irrelevant . |
| 14 | UV light seems to have a particular penchant for DNA , and the chemical changes that UV radiation causes in it are manifest as genetic mutations . |
| 15 | Not very large , if coffin it really is ; whoever lies in it was fine-boned and slender . |
| 16 | The second one : having got over the actual evacuation and the idea that I probably would n't ever see my mother again , being evacuated in itself was great . |
| 17 | More often Ministers are attracted to what is novel , makes only a limited demand on financial resources , and is not already identified with someone else . |
| 18 | For him to know that she was still very much sexually attracted to him was bad enough — but she was terrified of Ross discovering that her feelings ran much deeper . |
| 19 | A narrow smile thinned his lips but the look he cast on her was scalpel-sharp before he turned in unexpected obedience . |
| 20 | Well do n't count on it being short then . |
| 21 | Well not me and he does n't even know English he has to he 's bloody dum . |
| 22 | Even if we are assured that the creatures in question are not in any pain , some people will prolong the argument either by insisting that they must be in some sort of distress , or by claiming that even if they are not overtly suffering , what is happening to them is cruel and unwarranted exploitation . |
| 23 | We have lived in this peaceful west Stirlingshire village for 32 years , and thought the risk of it happening to us was negligible . |
| 24 | Precisely they drew on what was common knowledge ( that is to say what was believed to be knowledge ) in their day . |
| 25 | Jackson quotes Freud 's view that something has to be added to what is novel and unfamiliar to make it uncanny ; this something is ‘ nothing new or alien , but something which is familiar and old — established in the mind and become alienated from it through the process of repression ’ ( p. 66 ) . |
| 26 | It has to succeed , not in fair competition , but in the face of ignorance and misunderstanding : ignorance , because whereas professional knowledge and informed advice on the incorporation and conduct of conventionally organised companies are generally available , whereas education and training relating to them are commonplace , this is not true for co-operatives ; misunderstanding , because the industrial co-operative sector is still often regarded as characterised by the three well-known rescue cases … and hence as supposing itself to be exempted from test by commercial criteria and the rigours of the market economy . |
| 27 | Perhaps you should include one for each section every issue , so you can focus on what 's wrong with it . |
| 28 | Like a magician 's cabinet ( on which it was based ) , any Dalek going through its portal would cause a series of panels to flip round , thereby giving the impression it had vanished without it being obvious how it had vanished . |
| 29 | they they did n't wait till it was dry . |
| 30 | No we 're laugh , not laughing at her being deaf , we 're laughing at her , the robbery . |