Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The government says the changes are interim measures and it intends to reconsider the whole question of the treatment of earnings received by people on unemployment benefit .
2 The government says the changes are interim measures and it intends to reconsider the whole question of the treatment of earnings received by people on unemployment benefit .
3 The government says the changes are interim measures and it intends to reconsider the whole question of the treatment of earnings received by people on unemployment benefit .
4 Since the weekend , there has been ample sign that they and those who share their views are little inclined to let the matter die down .
5 I expect you think my brother and I are complete idiots and I think that you are probably right !
6 You do n't go into areas that are poorly lit if you can help it , you do n't take a short cut through the dark woods because it 'll save you five minutes on your journey , stick in well lit , we well lit areas .
7 Today , for example , I think it means next to nothing to simply state that blacks are working class when we are likely to be unemployed and may not recognize our experience and history in those areas of political life where an appeal to class is most prominent .
8 It had been eleven months since they had parted .
9 It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in .
10 Organizations are political systems and we need to recognize the sources and manifestations of power if we hope to understand the behaviour of individuals or groups within them .
11 These signatures are more readily attributed to source regions within the continental lithosphere , and there are strong indications that it is often the mantle lithosphere that contributes isotopically ‘ enriched ’ ( low- 143 Nd/ 144 Nd ) material .
12 ( There are strong suggestions that he might , for example , lift restrictions on press freedom . )
13 I am suffering persecution because I am different .
14 Sean , you could n't have been that shit-faced that you could n't go upto the Roger and ask him whether he was Roger or not ?
15 The women are lonely because they are professional women and they have no sustenance .
16 And er Mark 's sister and her partner , they are professional musicians and they do sort of Irish er Irish music .
17 In a number of passages there are emphatic statements that he had come to fulfil the scriptures .
18 But despite some concessions made to access considerations , there has been little evidence that he will change his mind .
19 The pollarded trees you see in old woodland and hedgerow are clear evidence that they were once part of boundaries formed to enclose stock as well , maybe , as parish boundaries .
20 Bernier constantly contrasts Mughal India and seventeenth-century France : the Jumna compares favourably with the Loire , he thinks ; adultery is easier in Paris than it is in Delhi : ‘ in France it only excites merriment , but in this part of the world there are few instances where it is not followed by some dreadful and tragical catastrophe . ’
21 There are few secrets that you can keep from her .
22 Much work remains to be done on the structure of the shire community , and there are few shires where it has been closely analysed .
23 There are few prisoners that I know of , and a hundred people live there , including two or three who are official security guards .
24 In library education , however , there are few areas where it is necessary to use moving images .
25 He says he thinks the people responsible are mindless morons and he 'd like to get his hands on them .
26 And quite quite honestly our top earners are top earners because they wo n't sit back and do one advertising deal a day and say , Hey are n't I clever .
27 It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers .
28 The field is sufficiently large for six plots down the sloping length by two plots across ; thus , there are 12 plots and we can replicate each of the four treatments three times .
29 These are light aircraft and they mean one thing !
30 In addition to these annual changes , there are daily ones and it is these and the responses of living organisms to them that are the subject of this book .
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