Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was and remain a supporter of Chaplin 's view . |
| 2 | I decided to stay where I was and watch the van . |
| 3 | There you are that says the end , that means it 's finished . |
| 4 | Cut , stay where you are but reframe the shot by zooming out to a wider angle before continuing the recording . |
| 5 | As the queen-dowager had informed them , she was but paying a brief visit to the palace , out of respect for her young lord and would be returning to the sanctuary very shortly . |
| 6 | He would look such a fool if he had to tell someone on the end of the line that he did n't know where she was and had no idea when she was coming back . |
| 7 | Make her presence known , or stay where she was and run the risk of being thought an eavesdropper ? |
| 8 | For some reason , though , she found herself following him , once again , even though she would have been far better staying where she was and letting the anger drain out of her . |
| 9 | It is a time when we can take a deep breath , assess where we are and make a start on our anticipatory mourning for our fate . |
| 10 | It was agreed to leave them as they are and to take no further action . |
| 11 | Here it is only necessary to establish what they are and make a note of them . |
| 12 | What is important is that they are and remain the orientations of most Britons , both at the mass and the elite level . |
| 13 | Therefore the choice is between leaving things as they are and adopting a new definition which is different in substance . |
| 14 | The continents are where they are and have the mountains they have because of the action of the Earth itself ; the eruption of volcanoes and the shifting of plates of the Earth 's crust ( plate tectonics ) . |
| 15 | Er I 'm gon na sit down quietly and do it one day erm it 's and make a sub-directory . |
| 16 | You need to get rid of that and it 's and create a dance floor |
| 17 | Option one means the hospital stays as it is but take the money away so it collapses anyway . |
| 18 | If one considers the difference between my father at such moments and a figure such as Mr Jack Neighbours even with the best of his technical flourishes , I believe one may begin to distinguish what it is that separates a ‘ great ’ butler from a merely competent one . |
| 19 | You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet . |
| 20 | It 's a previously unexplored area , but W.H.Smith/Do It All commissioned a media psychologist , Jane Firbank , to investigate what it is that motivates a phenomenally , perhaps weirdly , growing pastime . |
| 21 | I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate . |
| 22 | Now although it is true that we need to consider contextual factors to explain what it is that creates a feeling of unity in stretches of language of more than one sentence , we can not say that there are no formal links between sentences in discourse . |
| 23 | With more than 130 successful wines to choose from , it would be a very pleasant experience indeed just trying to find out what it is that makes a good wine a winner , observed one Winemark spokesman . |
| 24 | Aristotle 's argument concerns the question of what it is that makes an action ‘ voluntary ’ , done of a person 's own free will , and in order to answer this question , he distinguished between actions whose origin was ‘ inside ’ a person , and those whose origin was ‘ outside ’ , which resulted from external influences or pressure or compulsion . |
| 25 | Answer guide : This is a useful example of the problems of identifying what it is that causes the reduction in utility ie. in this case mileage or time . |
| 26 | The basis of their system is self-interest : ‘ Whatever it is that interests the participants , whatever they value , whatever goals they pursue . ’ |
| 27 | It may be asked what it is that disturbs a person when he feels the ‘ prick of conscience ’ . |
| 28 | Anti-clerical Catalans have long favoured leaving the Sagrada Familia as it is and landscaping the site . |
| 29 | Keep the rudder where it is and allow the speed to increase a few knots so that both you and the student can observe the exact position of the rudder pedals . |
| 30 | This is now considered to be extremely dangerous — she could bite and break whatever it is and inhale the broken bit . |