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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 With something so idiosyncratic there are things it ca n't do at all well , and others it can perform superbly .
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 A topical one is 'do you think the Government should ratify the Maastrich treaty ? '
14 That 's right it was help yourself was n't it ?
15 The t turning to the other sectors , it 's quite correct there is capacity there is there is scope for example along the A fifty nine corridor , for new stations .
16 Doris gave Wickham a cheerful smile and said in a pleasantly modified Cockney accent that she was positive it was MacQuillan she had seen .
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