Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love it when a plan does n't work how dry I am , how dry I am , nobody knows how dry I am will you get me whisky for me ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ But now I 'm afraid it 's time we were off . |
| 4 | And then it did n't start up till then till the second one came the Joseph Jo er The second one was John it was christened . |
| 5 | After an even opening session and a terrific toe to toe burst at the start of the second it was Oakes who took a grip with McGrath soaking up a steady stream of hard right-hand shots . |
| 6 | At any rate in the spring of 1784 it was Friends who resolved to accompany their delivery of their anti-slave trade pamphlet prepared by the slave trade committee of the Meeting for Sufferings with lobbying of MPs . |
| 7 | If the woman does not choose to fulfil this part of the process , then the connection will not hold ; by and large it is women who create the form of the relationship . |
| 8 | By and large it is men who construct knowledge , check with other men as to its significance and validity and build on the traditions developed by other men . |
| 9 | That something was language itself . |
| 10 | To be sure you are Lucifer himself in the shape of my master or you could not use me thus , and I beg you 'll send me out of my way to my poor parents . |
| 11 | I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast |
| 12 | A police officer told the court he was sure it was Betteridge whom he saw in Houndgate , Darlington , at 11.50pm on Saturday as he had known him since he was 15 . |
| 13 | And above all it was Mark who had made her feel loved and special . |
| 14 | In 1528 , when he perhaps helped to garrison Guisnes , offices in Salisbury eluded him because Thomas Wolsey [ q.v. ] had already disposed of them ; by 1530 it was Wolsey who needed Baynton 's goodwill . |
| 15 | Now that is w er in fact it was a pretty good It 's point nought three per cent I think of our our jobs er that we carry out that you can have you 're allowed to have an accident which I think is a fairly good rate . |
| 16 | Although fingerprinting was not officially adopted in India until 1897 it was Herschel who , when a magistrate in Hooghly in 1877–8 , instituted the first known system . |
| 17 | With something so idiosyncratic there are things it ca n't do at all well , and others it can perform superbly . |
| 18 | There was a rationalist in the compartment who observed , ‘ The country is poverty stricken and on top of that there are people who throw coins out of carriage windows . ' ’ |
| 19 | Each has variants ; for each there are circumstances which favour its use . |
| 20 | Erm and then the next one after that is is I know is March the fifteenth which is Adrian who 's the er woodworker . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ They were horrible , ’ she cried , wrinkling her nose in distaste ; even so , her tone was that of a woman of the world and it was evident it was Martin she found disgusting , not the drawings . |
| 23 | A topical one is 'do you think the Government should ratify the Maastrich treaty ? ' |
| 24 | In 1966 it was Beryl who found the advertisement which led to the purchase of the property in Balham which became Medau House , the Society 's Headquarters for many years . |
| 25 | First it was machines which pattern with buttons , then machines with punchcards , next electronics with mylar sheets and later build-in patterns . |
| 26 | At first it was men who were not allowed into the house and although this position resulted in a lot of criticism and ridicule , most feminists had some sympathy so long as we did n't seriously advocate separatism for all women . |
| 27 | That 's right it was help yourself was n't it ? |
| 28 | I do that it is time we updated the white paper . |
| 29 | And given that it was Godolphin himself who supplied these items — most were simply terrestrial trivia , revered in the Dominions because of their place of origin — and given that he would not cease to do so as long as the fever of collection was upon him and he could exchange such items for artifacts from the Imajica , Peccable 's business would flourish . |
| 30 | But in the partition of the Warwick and Salisbury lands which was finally achieved in 1474 it was Gloucester who secured the Welsh estates . |