Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish you and your staff to know how sorry I am that Punch is to be no more . |
| 2 | When they get old they 're all sort of |
| 3 | Well she was n't too bothered it 's all experience is n't it ? |
| 4 | Another , a business woman , often under considerable pressure , managed to come to an arrangement with her voluble but good-humoured mother , that she could terminate any of their telephone conversations speedily if necessary , without giving offence , simply by saying , ‘ Well , I 'm afraid it 's all action stations here now , so I 'll have to say goodbye ’ ; and it worked remarkably well . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid it 's another story which does n't reflect much credit on me — I seem doomed to show you the worst side of my character . |
| 6 | You know how damp it was this morning . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , we 're just going out to have one , ’ said Penelope , thinking how typical it was that Ianthe should long for such a dull and essentially English thing as a cup of tea . |
| 8 | You were n't doing anything individual it was more communion thing you were making the likes of if it was brown bread you 're all standing rolling up and chaffing brown bread and putting them in tins . |
| 9 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 10 | I bet you 're absolutely delighted it 's half term are n't you ? |
| 11 | Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ? |
| 12 | The more dense and multiplex the ties , the more likely it is that complexity will be maintained . |
| 13 | Hence , the smaller the amount of equity the more likely it is that debt holders may have to bear some part of any losses . |
| 14 | And the more unstable a relationship is , the less likely it is that contraception will be used . |
| 15 | The historian normally wants a longer perspective and the more time passes , the more likely it is that research will be concerned with change over time rather than with a ‘ snapshot ’ of 1991 . |
| 16 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 17 | But more likely it was some time in London . |
| 18 | And it shows , in Beerbohm and Bowra and as it survives today , how inevitable it was that Pound should have abandoned England and the English just when he did . |
| 19 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
| 20 | Secondly of course there are opportunities and limitations to your , the resources that you have and I 've mentioned resources before , they can be economic , military , your education system erm you know at the moment the government 's expanding higher education , going up , well we 've , we 've touched already I think thirty percent now in higher education one of the reasons for that is not just to , for self-fulfilment for those who are erm involved in higher education as I 'm sure you 're all self-fulfilling yourself here today , it 's because of what is perceived to be a national need for a highly educated workforce . |
| 21 | It 's like we 're all idiots . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No , I 'm sure they 're all scientists . ’ |
| 23 | I was quite suprised how good he was that year … back heeling the ball to set up at least 2 goals … and the drag back and turn for a goal vs Wimbledon ( I think ) ! ! |
| 24 | Well this is what she said ju just now , yeah well not just now , earlier on , she said about getting out there and I said well I 'm sure it 's that place she said well it 's the only one out there that she could think of . |
| 25 | IF THERE 'S ONE thing for sure it 's that backpacking makes you ravenous . |
| 26 | And they 're sure it 's this attitude that has made them so successful . |
| 27 | Miss Evans replied : ‘ I 'm sure it was that date . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm sure it was that meeting that was scaring him . ’ |
| 29 | Are you , are you sure it was this week , it was supposed to be ? |
| 30 | One British observer has pointed out how curious it is that assessment of performance procedures has been developed ( by the APU ) without any reference to procedures for the improvement of performance . |