Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb mod] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope . |
2 | ‘ So she must be St Agatha . |
3 | Well we 'll get carbon dioxide off , so you might be iridium carbonate or ytterbium , we 've got a powder which may be ytterbium car carbonate or ytterbium sulphate and you never heard of this stuff , ah carbonate carbonate and maybe , maybe ytterbium carbonate does n't give off carbon dioxide with acid , but there is a very good chance it does cos all the others you 've ever heard about do . |
4 | I 'm wurkin hard and lurning to be a sailor , so you can be prowd of me . |
5 | No , so we should be age thirty four , and it should have non-smoker at the top , so it 's right at the front , the commonest mistake is to look up smokers in non-smokers , and non-smokers in smokers . |
6 | Thus , although they may be braille readers , they are not totally blind children and should be encouraged to use what vision they have in the learning situation . |
7 | Its leaves , although they might be petals , hardly quiver at all as three very small and very golden frogs pull themselves up and gaze in astonishment at the fresh clear water . |
8 | And in two weeks ’ time , just before their Wembley date , they play San Marino again , so they will be World Cup Group Two leaders with three victories before England have even begun their campaign . |
9 | Although it 'll be decades before the reactor can be made completely safe , experts say it 's unlikely that any more major damage will be caused . |
10 | Although it might be Wednesbury unreasonable or incompatible with statutory purposes for a rule to alter common law rights , this should be deduced from the words of the statute itself . |
11 | Well generally he comes up for dinner , but he ai n't today so he 'll be Rhys will come , be in for dinner , he 'll turn up about three , and they sometimes stay , we sometimes play game in the afternoon , board game or something , it depends |
12 | These articles are written well in advance of publication , so it may be months before you see one that you letter has prompted . |
13 | Manchester City4 Leeds United0 A FAR from vintage championship battle has fluctuated between the Uniteds of Manchester and Leeds for months , so it would be folly to believe this dramatic twist in fortunes will be the last before the coveted honour goes to either Old Trafford or Elland Road . |
14 | It was n't Beryl , then , so it would be Peter . |
15 | The skipper and commander are going to be there , so it 'll be caps in the air and three cheers and all that . |
16 | It is Thursday , so it must be New York City . |
17 | I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’ |
18 | The directors are denying any knowledge of this and the report originated in the Star so it could be rubbish , |
19 | We only have one bathroom so it will be showers rather than baths when everyone is here or the tank wo n't cope ! |
20 | Dallas , Texas-based Saber Software Corp has licensed a subset of the Saber Menu System for MS-DOS , to Novell Inc , which will include the Saber Menu Language in NetWare v4.0 , so it will be goodbye to the old Novell Menu utility MENU.EXE . |
21 | ‘ In South Africa I would not be able to set up a company like I will be doing for Cummins in Russia . |
22 | Just if she 'll , you know , just if she could be friends with me still , you know , and that ? |
23 | You wo n't be involved in that Fay really cos you 'll be part of the erm procession with the oils you see . |
24 | He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends . |
25 | It is as if they might be responses to requests to " write up " exchanged conversation and counsel — some are lyrics and short prose poems on the nature of contemplative life . |
26 | It is a well-established phenomenon that nonwords which sound like actual words ( known as " pseudo-homophones " ) tend to gain slower responses than those which look as if they may be words , but do not sound like any . |
27 | A DEC spokesman said that everything was in the early stages , and that he would n't like to comment on numbers — not even the 6,000 proposed lay-offs , although software engineering staff would be among the casualties , he also could n't say if they would be part of the wave of redundancies mentioned above . |
28 | There was neither joy nor peace in the house and she found herself wishing the time away until it should be March . |
29 | Somehow she could never hear disembodied footsteps on the stairs without wondering fleetingly if it might be Mark returning as unexpectedly as he had left . |
30 | Tanners Wine Merchants on Wyler Cop is a good place to visit : it looks as if it might be trade only , but is n't : march round the back , through the yard and go in . |