Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in tutorials there is opportunity to take well judged risks — by which I mean being unafraid of going for the character and seeing where it leads — even with well known speeches . |
| 2 | Certainly the reading content of the recommended book for Class 2 in Sierra Leone which I saw being used with very young children in Freetown schools is far above the average reading level one might expect for six-year-olds in London who speak English , not Creole , at home . |
| 3 | One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening . |
| 4 | Michael Herr says , ‘ I had an absolute raving love affair with the war , but my other love affair was with America , not with Indo-China ; it was with American energy , which I 've been criticised for , but that 's how it happened ’ . |
| 5 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 6 | Well the position which I 've been told by my company directors is that we are still trading , er a er an administration order has been taken out and we are continually , continuing to trade and er that er rules . |
| 7 | Er , the I I also make the point , that er , my understanding is having now talked to a number of the other C A B's , that in fact they were looking to Thamesdown money advice centre because this money was actually to replace funds that previously had been er , available through the Allied Dunbar sponsorship scheme , and which has , which I gather was withdrawn er , at very short notice , and they were looking to Thamesdown to er provide that support and resource as a county resource , and I I therefore felt that it was right to bring it forward . |
| 8 | The wedding to which I had been invited was taking place in a village church ten miles the other side of Downshurst , a market town eleven miles from my aunt 's cottage . |
| 9 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 10 | Much interest was expressed from personnel across the system in the work in which I had been involved over the last eleven years with Queensland Catholic Education . |
| 11 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 12 | I am referring to Dr. Bach Flower Remedies , a mixed distillation of which I had been prescribed and acquired at Bristol . |
| 13 | After it had run along the shores of the Adriatic on its way to Monfalcone , I had my last view of the Kras , the country in which I had been born , rising like a great wall above the plains of Friuli and then gradually disappearing altogether . |
| 14 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 15 | I gave her a deep old-fashioned bow , a legacy of the East European courtesies in which I had been raised . |
| 16 | ‘ Life has changed , Shama , ’ I said looking at the Japanese thermos on the chair by my bed and the round box of Danish biscuits which I had been given ‘ in case you are hungry in the night ’ . |
| 17 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 18 | I saw only that , in this magical new view of the world to which I had been introduced , scepticism and gullibility must be harnessed in tandem if nothing was to be missed . |
| 19 | Jean-Claude had a different way of looking at moral issues from the one in which I had been brought up , and judged correct . |
| 20 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 21 | It was not a matter with which I had been confronted . |
| 22 | Upon receiving a degree which would allow me to undertake research , I turned down a place which I had been offered to study theology , and went to Oxford . |
| 23 | As has been seen , the analysis which I prefer is couched in the language not of acts and omissions , but of duties . |
| 24 | The part of the convent in which I lived was called the noviceship . |
| 25 | We did however receive a £400 special grant from the Art Inspector , which I imagine is connected with the review … bought two sewing machines ( swing needle ) for textile work , creative embroidery , and sewing costumes for giant puppets . ’ |
| 26 | However , the hon. Gentleman rightly refers to the other businesses which Harland and Wolff is now expanding and building up , and I am sure that its success , which I believe is assured under privatisation , offers the best hope for those men in the future . |
| 27 | So my position is based on a sort of on going activity which I believe is rooted in what 's happening in the Black community at the moment . |
| 28 | Try Lefranc & Bourgeois ' Constant Tension canvases which I believe are made with cellulose , and are acrylic primed and ready stretched . |
| 29 | Less easy to identify were personality traits which I believe are carried by Briant Bodies Gamma and Delta . |
| 30 | Taking the last first , there are three villages which are so close together that with any allowance for coalescence , even the one kilometre which I believe was taken in the original look at this problem by the County Council , there would be no possibility of fitting in a settlement er of the size proposed . |