Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you find a new diet in a magazine , or you decide to lose weight , the chances are that you pick your day for starting but make no special preparation plans . |
| 2 | So deep in thought had she been that she reached her destination before she 'd made any definite plans about how to proceed . |
| 3 | Chances are if you bought your racket in Britain it already had strings in it — unlike in the USA where the retailer will ask you a lot of questions about how you play and then string your new frame for you . |
| 4 | It could only have been because he read his poetry . |
| 5 | If the speaker is lying , for instance , it may be that what caused his utterance was something quite opposed to belief in what he meant to say , or a favourable attitude towards what his utterance was meant to commend . |
| 6 | I think our strategy should be that we pare our prices down , to the absolute minimum that we think we can do the work for , take a little bit more off that and hope to get some money back on variations . |
| 7 | If you have lost your glasses , it may be that you upset your friends by failing to recognize them in the street . |
| 8 | Had it been a professional job all that would matter from your point of view would be that you followed their instructions and moved at their pace with my help . |
| 9 | Can it be that you condone his actions ? |
| 10 | It may be that you think my association with a certain person will prevent me from doing anything about Geoffrey . |
| 11 | We 'll be if we get our four per cent |
| 12 | I 'm more than willing to carve my own career — I 'm raring to go , at least I shall be if I get my degree and if I can shake off this horrible mononucleosis , as Dr Newne pompously insists on calling it ! |
| 13 | ‘ How would it be if I returned your gift so that you can give it at the door ? ’ |
| 14 | Erm the tribunal may well say that one of those clauses should be if you lose your driving licence you lose your job , so it 's a fairly dangerous thing to apply to the tribunal to get terms of employment sorted out . |
| 15 | Walking to the door , Sabine wondered detachedly what the reaction would be if she voiced her unspoken thought aloud , but decided not to risk it . |
| 16 | I watched the smoky flame waver inside the place where the dog 's brains used to be and I closed my eyes . |
| 17 | That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year . |
| 18 | Rosenthal comments that ‘ the history of science generally , and the history of psychology more specifically , suggest that more of us are wrong longer than we need to be because we hold our theories not quite lightly enough . ’ |
| 19 | If she did not see fit to prevent their actions , it must be because they served her purposes . |
| 20 | Professional DEC watcher , Terry Shannon , claims the firm is fretting that its Alpha launch on November 10 wo n't be as impressive as it might be because it missed its goal of getting a thousand third-party software packages . |
| 21 | ‘ And it would have to be before you require our services . |
| 22 | He 's off sick today , from today , how long will it be before he gets his first cheque from us . |
| 23 | It 'll be si ski trip will be when we have our maths ' coursework so the there was about ten fourth years going they 're really annoyed ! |
| 24 | The critical stage would be when he lowered his undercarriage . |
| 25 | ‘ He wo n't be when he hears my offer . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No , but she will be when she finishes her work . |
| 27 | We 'll go back to all the places you 've been since you nicked my bag and we 'll look in every single rubbish bin till we find them . ’ |
| 28 | She had never known what love and tenderness were until she met her Aunty Lizzie , and she knew that no one in the world would ever love her like that woman did ; nor would she love anyone else . |
| 29 | Allowing for [ market movement ? ] , surveys at BP retail sites in Europe , the USA and Singapore show that sales remain 6% higher than they were before we started our re-imaging programme — completed 18 months ago in many countries . |
| 30 | Okay Mrs erm , can you tell me how old you were when you started your first job ? |