Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister must have been asleep or doing something else when I raised my final point about the article in the education press in Scotland about the middle of last year . |
| 2 | I 'm sure if people will perhaps they look at the church and think oh it 's out of touch but it is n't there are churches that are alive and have something very relevant to say today . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh yes , if you are ill or need anything . |
| 4 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 5 | As the New Right has denounced and undermined a communitarian form of society , so ‘ The numbers of people for whom such communitarian visions are good and mean something at the level of their everyday experiences are declining , attenuating their moral force . ’ |
| 6 | If we believe , and many of us do , in unitary local government — one door to knock on and one set of people to hold to account — we must give them something to do other than riding around in a civic car pretending that they are important and delivering nothing , responsive to no demands , not aspiring to change and improvement , and not even doing what the Conservatives of old did in the Chamberlain era when there was the sort of socialism that is now anathema to the Tory party . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry but does anyone actually use Stoke Newington train station ? |
| 8 | The most professional approach was to be polite but say nothing . |
| 9 | This can be uncomfortable and requires plenty of gnawing to relieve the growing pain . |
| 10 | They must be brief and include lots of spare blank paper to be filled up later . |
| 11 | We would ask everyone to be patient and to leave plenty of time for their journey , ’ he stressed . |
| 12 | Now I 'm not going to be pedantic and say anything under two minutes is unacceptable two minutes is the guideline just to give you an idea of what would be a good idea . |
| 13 | It was the best thing to be quiet and say nothing — to push it all away into a dark place like the cupboard under the stairs so it could be forgotten like an old raincoat or last summer 's shoes . |
| 14 | the fields they are in have masses of grass , are level and have plenty of shelter , and |
| 15 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 16 | Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing . |
| 17 | The hero in this song is pleading with his girlfriend to go with him , to love him in spite of his being poor and having nothing to offer . |
| 18 | The ladies were thirsty and wanted something to drink . |
| 19 | But is it true that we learn just by virtue of being busy and having lots of experiences ? |
| 20 | Being over-generous when pouring one 's own is a well documented cause of excessive intake . |
| 21 | She liked wearing the cap ; it made her feel different , as did the long grey coat that went down to the top of her boots , because then she did not feel like Millie Forester , whose mother and father were dead and had no-one belonging to her , except the fat woman and the man with short legs , but more like a princess who , every now and again , donned strange clothes and went out among the common people , and was kind to them , and yet always remained a princess under the disguise . |
| 22 | When you are young and know nothing , all you can do is trust your teacher , but here I felt some inner awareness of my own . |
| 23 | If they are new or have anything unusual about them , ask the person selling the vehicle for an explanation . |
| 24 | It is self-evident that learning something entails a prior capacity to learn it . |
| 25 | Banks have little desire to underwrite — it is risky and demands lots of precious capital . |
| 26 | Be pro-active and do something about it before it is mentioned . |
| 27 | The print itself is featureless and does nothing visually to capture the attention or involve the emotions . |
| 28 | 17 ( The masculine is basically intellectual and seeks wisdom , while the feminine is affectional and seeks someone to love . |
| 29 | I know it 's tempting when see something at £5 instead of £10 , but in six months time it 's useless — that 's why it 's cheap . ’ |
| 30 | And if you had to do if you had , say , three sheets of pink paper because you 've been naughty and done something wrong , you had to fill three sides of pink foolscap paper with writing . |