Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have also complained to you continually about the loss of orders I have taken from my customers , ie back orders which get lost on the computer or they are not delivered due to the lack of stock . |
| 2 | It turns out that if I choose a direction and look at the electron 's spin in relation to that direction then either its axis of rotation points along that direction or it is wholly in the reverse direction . |
| 3 | Either that Sardinian 's being there was coincidence or it was n't — and , for goodness ' sake , if it was n't — |
| 4 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 5 | They have to call it a club or they 're not allowed to serve hard liquor . |
| 6 | You 're either with the enemy or you 're not . |
| 7 | It 's been — delightful , and either you are a very good actress or you are genuinely innocent of guile . |
| 8 | Edward and Wallace Simpson , because Edward abdicated in order to marry a divorced American and so they then went to live in exile and he was eventually , after he died he was buried in Britain , but Wallace Simpson , or the Duchess of Windsor or as she then was |
| 9 | I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more . |
| 10 | I am born of noble stock and I am not too proud to admit it . |
| 11 | Well the fact that we 've got three there , there there that 's how many we got on that card and we were quite happy about that . |
| 12 | so he looks at the buyer 's guide , business card and it 's thoroughly . |
| 13 | There are , however , many strands within this protestantism and they are frequently conflicting . |
| 14 | They have played some great football and it was not more than the team deserved , and was great reward for manager Doug Williams in his first year in charge . |
| 15 | His first love was association football and he was highly regarded within that game both as a player and an administrator . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to see my team play good football and I 'm not stepping aside from that . |
| 17 | When the fish is moving at speed and they are not required they are clamped to the fish 's sides fitting exactly into depressions and grooves on the surface . |
| 18 | When we were walking over here this morning , I was suggesting to you that in fact computers , really , were numeric devices — they did arithmetic _ and I 'm not sure you actually agreed with me . |
| 19 | When the wardrobes are moved it could be that they will hide the wall light switch and he 's not bothered about that one little bit ! |
| 20 | It has been calculated that , at some point in her life , one woman in five will be infected with this parasite and it is also generally accepted that the organism is almost exclusively sexually transmitted . |
| 21 | This paradoxical situation arose notwithstanding great endeavours to retain the strong links between physical and human geography and it was often thought ( e.g. Fisher , 1970 ) that a revival of the regional approach still offered the only method of recementing the two parts of the subject . |
| 22 | He knew what was happening in the boathouse and it was too ordinary to convert into anything exciting . |
| 23 | In , in , in , in one terrace and I 'm not gon na mention names again because the , the family 's still around , you know , and I do n't want to embarrass them . |
| 24 | 2.35 In claims for the death of an infant child there is rarely any actual dependency but there might be prospective loss and it is well established that prospective loss is sufficient to found a claim by the parents . |
| 25 | I do n't think I 'm the only volunteer who 's ashamed of their early attitude to AIDS and I 'm only glad that we had the sense , collectively , to listen to reason before the calls began . |
| 26 | The Benedictine monasteries regarded themselves as islands of true Christianity in a sea of pagan barbarism and it was not until the eleventh century that the monks of the abbey of Cluny and its affiliated houses began a campaign that was able to educate the laity and local clergy . |
| 27 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 28 | Judge Kenneth Richardson told him : ‘ You have been convicted of a shocking murder and it is only by sheer luck that it was not two . ’ |
| 29 | Joseph said : ‘ Well , just make sure you impress on her that I had nothing to do with any murder and she is not to suggest it . ’ |
| 30 | It 's almost like a club and we 're not members . |