Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean David 's talking about the leaf stem I could n't care less about the leaf stem I 'm with most people I understand that Councillor Barry Jackson 's offered to look after it in his garden cos he likes it and he 's welcome to do that . |
| 2 | Partners are under a duty , by s. 28 of the Partnership Act 1890 , to disclose to other partners all matters relating to the partnership which are within that partner 's knowledge . |
| 3 | Now in the banqueting hall another pleasant tea party was taking place , even though tea itself was in such short supply that there was really only hot water to drink . |
| 4 | You know and immediately can you see , you 've asked him all these questions you can see what a pain in the neck you are to all the people you 've asked these questions of . |
| 5 | However , they underestimate the amount of opposition there is from some groups of men to women getting good jobs . |
| 6 | No such scarps have been observed on other maria , perhaps because any lava there was of such low viscosity that it spread out into very thin sheets before solidifying . |
| 7 | yeah , they all , I always take one and I 'm always pleasantly surprised usually by the amount of gear there are in these places |
| 8 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 9 | Secondly , the torts considered in this chapter may also come into question in cases of alleged unlawful competition between traders , but in practice they are of little significance because of the common law 's refusal to adopt any principle of ‘ fair competition ’ other than the prohibition of obviously unlawful acts like torts and crimes and breaches of contract . |
| 10 | I mean there are some Conservatives who do actually believe in the social welfare of the but there are also , I 'm I 'm sure there are large numbers who actually know what vicious streak there is behind a lot of the other measures of social control that have gone on in this country since consensus was in nineteen seventy nine er you actually realise what what a tragedy it is in this area . |
| 11 | When Caro made her escape after tea it was with all the usual feelings of guilt and frustration ; with her mother suggesting brightly , ‘ Just let me measure you for that new jumper before you go , Carolyn , ’ and , ‘ Did I show you the new suite we were thinking of getting , in the catalogue ? |
| 12 | It 's my fault he 's in this mess . |
| 13 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
| 14 | It 's just like an inverse it 's of that number |
| 15 | Artichaut sauce vinaigrette it was for both the girls . |
| 16 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |
| 17 | But resistance to government reorganization was not simply based on self-interest ; what a person 's self-interest was , was defined by institutions and economic expectations , by a social framework which was to some extent traditional and entrenched . |
| 18 | But again , too evident delight in surmounting a difficulty which was after all self-imposed suggests that the Resident 's obscuration of the nature of his influence was primarily not a form of reticence or uncertainty , but of display . |
| 19 | The bible is considered to be inspired literature which is in some way normative for the religion . |
| 20 | It may suit one of the parties at the time of the reference to exploit the uncertainty created by poor drafting , either by delaying matters by a construction summons ( see 8.17.7 ) or by insisting on a particular definition of the issue which is to that party 's advantage . |
| 21 | Wheeziness which is like this and is worse ( < ) damp weather , better ( > ) sitting up and for fresh air . |
| 22 | Note the reference to " welfare " , a low test which is below that required for reckless manslaughter . |
| 23 | Angel himself was at this moment riding across Brazil towards the coast . |
| 24 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 25 | And there was always hope that the Westward family would see her one day as an elegant lady and be sorry they had n't kept in touch with the child who was after all their own flesh and blood . |
| 26 | So we would have a queen who is in another relationship and a king who is another relationship . |
| 27 | She 's with the girl who 's in that series but it 's like the American one with she 's got a male housekeeper and she it 's duri , it 's ju it 's only a comedy in the afternoon . |
| 28 | Your so-called Gittel 's not the only one who is n't quite the girl she was in that far-off summertime . ’ |
| 29 | Never mind , you have a definition — you are a ‘ bad child ’ , which is infinitely preferable to not knowing what sort of child you are at all . |
| 30 | As Wayne Gossage has said : " Patricia Knapp was one of the few people in the inner circle of the library-college vanguard who was in any way critical " ( Gossage 1975 : 8 ) and this has been a sad weakness in a movement which , with its enthusiasm and provocative reversal of traditional priorities , has aroused much interest and thought amongst educators , librarians and administrators . |