Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | " If you want to be a good wife to me , and only the Lord knows how many times you 've said that 's what you want , you can stop asking questions and making deductions about where I been or what 's passed my lips , see ? |
2 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
3 | For example , in the educational dimension , the aims for a child aged 3–4 are that s/he is provided with opportunities for intellectual growth and pre-school learning and is well-prepared for starting school . |
4 | Their main disadvantages are that they are affected by jointing compound and that they may not fit through the loft hatch . |
5 | Drawbacks are that they are carburetted , requiring much wristwork from the driver on the hefty levers which control the warm air intakes . |
6 | But the signs are that they are going to get tough with clubs that offer idle excuses for not getting their cup-ties out of the way . |
7 | Latest reports are that they are breeding successfully . |
8 | what the counties are that we 're covering , |
9 | Further assumptions are that we are fragmented as a movement , and that unity , not a hollow unity which does not go beyond slogans , but an authentic unity established in a principled way , would enable us to have more of an impact in effecting change in our own communities and in turn worldwide . |
10 | All the signs are that we are going to have to put up with far from satisfactory liquid crystal diode displays if we want portability , and recognising that the things are far from ideal , Japanese manufacturers are pulling out all the stops to improve the things . |
11 | ‘ I have n't had the pathologist 's report but the indications are that he was strangled after being stunned by a blow to the head . ’ |
12 | However , the probabilities are that you are fooling yourself . |
13 | ‘ My orders , little friar , are that you are to accompany me into Cheapside to a tavern called the Bear and Ragged Staff . |
14 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |
15 | Now if your house , like our office , has tanks stuck on every available surface , chances are that you 're taking a similar risk . |
16 | Yeah well this is what 's not , I mean we do n't know who who those accounts are that you 're dealing with where that 's the situation |
17 | Counterfeiting is a multi million pound industry and all the signs are that it 's growing at an alarming rate . |
18 | And are you confident when you give a weather forecast that the chances are that it 's going to be correct , or do you do it with a slight feeling of uneasiness ? |
19 | ‘ All signs are that it is making a real impact in reducing the spread of Aids , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
20 | ‘ Industrial drug research is facing a crisis ’ was the headline of a British Medical Journal editorial recently ; and all the indications in Cured to Death are that it is going to get worse . |
21 | There had been no second rescue attempt — the first vessel had been destroyed by a rigged explosion — and the conclusion the survivors had arrived at had been that they were assumed killed . |
22 | Only two people in this group said that the difficulty had been that they were refused credit . |
23 | Or it may simply have been that he was hiding : that his confused sexuality could at any time have brought him down . |
24 | During the first government of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson , one of whose election slogans had been that he was going to introduce a white hot technological revolution , AEA was empowered by act of Parliament to undertaken R&D on non-nuclear topics . |
25 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
26 | In April , I did point out that if English Heritage ( the body responsible for the preservation of England 's built heritage ) were transferred to the new Department of National Heritage ( which is now the case ) , very careful consideration would need to be given to how planning is coped with , because one of the strengths of English Heritage had been that it was placed within the Department of the Environment where government planning takes place . |
27 | The two are entirely compatible if it is remembered that one of the popular theories of the nature of the state itself has always been that it was founded on a contract between the individual members of a society . |
28 | Is the product you know even a description of the product that we 're that they 're going into er will be suffice on the telephone , they do n't have to see these these these er items if they 're described in in er in enough detail . |
29 | Well it 's an awkward time to ask people to go and fetch them when they 're if they 're preparing dinner is n't it ? |
30 | You see I ca n't remember if they 're if they 're pulling my plonker or not , but that is the sort of thing I do , but I ca n't remember anything about it . |