Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tho' I highly respect Mrs. Leapor 's character from the account you give of it , yet as she was absolutely unknown to myself , and I am but little acquainted even with her writings , I am upon this account as well as many others , entirely unfit for such an undertaking as you propose . |
| 2 | ‘ I am as well read as the best scholars of the world , and I use the language of the gods and the verses of the poets , ’ said Taliesin , ‘ but I will try to speak more simply in future . ’ |
| 3 | Fear not , honoured woman , said he ; you are but lately arrived , and they come to bring you a present , which shall help marry your daughters . |
| 4 | It is not unknown to have ballast on a spar tip to even out the dynamic balance , and , if you are as well prepared as the Peacocks , you 'll have spare spars handy which will have different flexibility to try against the breeze of the day . |
| 5 | Nutty discovered that the ex-Mrs Nicholson 's clothes were all at least two sizes smaller than she was and mostly covered with sequins or beads of some description . |
| 6 | They are as well dressed as is possible to be in such a country as that in which they live . |
| 7 | I think it 's proof that they 're and well written . |
| 8 | Equally they were as well placed as anyone to know about the extent of the delays by the emergency services . |
| 9 | Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway . |
| 10 | Welsh Wales , in Wales and in the Lake District they found that the er level of nuclear activity on the surface of , of the field as it were and therefore reached the animals is higher than it has been , how would they manage to do that ? |
| 11 | Having er , been invited to attend the first ever in County Council Hearing I 'm delighted with it 's as well received as it 's had and I would just like to clarify point C which is after the relative sort of consultation with local members and the whole review of meeting er , who will be present at the review meeting ? |
| 12 | Small towns , therefore , occupied a defined economic niche , even if it is but imperfectly understood . |
| 13 | My father strokes the little soft pink downy body and exclaims how perfect a little machine it is and ideally suited for its mission . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's as well spoken as any gent . |
| 15 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 16 | Brusilov , a thrusting and optimistic commander , replied that he was as well placed to advance against Austria now as he would be in July . |
| 17 | He was and fiercely opposed not only to the Shah 's monarchism but also to his foreign policy . |
| 18 | It seems that on the basis of Canto 7 we can explain Pound 's hostility to Virgil very simply indeed : it was precisely Virgil 's melancholy , the lacrimae rerum which endears him to so many , that Pound could not stomach , so sanguine as he was and so determined to remain so . |
| 19 | Most of us would agree that it 's useful to stay calm and think ahead , but few of us are as well organised as Caroline Lamb , who makes a point of taking her seven-week-old baby , Ben , out every day to visit friends , the clinic or shops . |