Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His drawings were so clear and he was always able to get directly to the important issues . |
| 2 | committee and that on behalf of West Sussex as a whole , we should grasp that responsibility , make it clear and I 'm not talking about the emergency arrangements which we 're coping with quite adequately it seems to me erm but I 'm talking about the coordination and overview of all the er contributing factors erm so that we can demonstrate that there is ultimately one body who can take er a view of these matters er ensure that there are not grey areas in future and to er initiate er action wherever it may be dealt with necessary . |
| 3 | Dana made her intentions very clear and she was n't to be turned from her objective by the sight of Roman kissing Claudia . |
| 4 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 5 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 6 | Take the T V away and conversation collapses and dies and in a survey a former German couple , they took away lots of and they were nearly suicidal and they were nearly murdering |
| 7 | If you have never experienced this , try it out for yourself one day when your mind is calm and you are not with companions who will ridicule you or otherwise disturb your peace of mind . |
| 8 | Otis Ferguson thought the only real social comment concerned the unemployed and they were rather haphazardly brought together and in any case upstaged by a boy-girl-siren triangle hung on ‘ the back of such an old love nag as even Hollywood might be ashamed to take out for a canter ’ . |
| 9 | quite interesting and it 's quite vague in a way |
| 10 | It is n't light and it is n't dark . |
| 11 | It is n't funny and it is n't clever |
| 12 | To crash a plane into Beckindale around about the anniversary of Lockerbie it is n't funny at all it 's not funny and it 's not clever . |
| 13 | She 's always telling me when I do things wrong and she is always right . ’ |
| 14 | I served an apprenticeship , worked hard and now I am in the wrong and it is not my fault . |
| 15 | One prisoner writes of another in his block : ‘ He has an IQ that 's slightly above freezing temperature Fahrenheit but he knows that he was wrong and he is not as dumb as he wants people to believe . |
| 16 | Approaching this cosmology , it is natural for an outsider to suppose that the Chinese can think only concretely , after the analogies of breathing or the veins in jade ( a supposition encouraged by misunderstandings of Chinese script as a kind of picture-writing ) , while he thinks abstractly ; that the Chinese are wrong and he is right ( for is not the universe in fact composed of matter obeying the laws of nature ? ) ; that the Chinese are trapped within an unchanging conceptual scheme while he is free to go wherever reason bids . |
| 17 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 18 | He was n't high and he was n't drunk and he was n't delivering chocolates to his lady-love . |
| 19 | First , non-response was high and it is now known that , as a category , non-respondents are often very different in a number of relevant respects from those who do respond . |
| 20 | But then again Irene and Fred 's old and they 're not like that . |
| 21 | dump trucks there they know they 're over five years old and they 're still working . |
| 22 | The style is French gothic , the building is 130 years old and it 's up for sale . |
| 23 | You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up . |
| 24 | I ca n't afford to take you out properly or buy you a proper Christmas present , or be able to tell you not to worry — I 'm twenty-eight years old and I 'm still living from hand to mouth like a bloody tramp . |
| 25 | ‘ Our son was only a year old and I was still feeling pretty asexual . |
| 26 | I was four and a half years old and I was about to start Bedfield Primary School . |
| 27 | THIS POOR CHILD IS NINE YEARS OLD AND SHE 'S NEVER SEEN A BARBIE DOLL ! |
| 28 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 29 | She was only nine years old and she was n't much of a size for that , but everybody knew that Viktor was harmless . |
| 30 | she said I was n't four years old and she was still working in the box office . |