Example sentences of "be [det] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man with unfashionably long hair — it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days , Loretta guessed — was stabbing the air with his fork . |
| 2 | Sean , you could n't have been that shit-faced that you could n't go upto the Roger and ask him whether he was Roger or not ? |
| 3 | But despite some concessions made to access considerations , there has been little evidence that he will change his mind . |
| 4 | But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war . |
| 5 | Bernier constantly contrasts Mughal India and seventeenth-century France : the Jumna compares favourably with the Loire , he thinks ; adultery is easier in Paris than it is in Delhi : ‘ in France it only excites merriment , but in this part of the world there are few instances where it is not followed by some dreadful and tragical catastrophe . ’ |
| 6 | There are few secrets that you can keep from her . |
| 7 | Much work remains to be done on the structure of the shire community , and there are few shires where it has been closely analysed . |
| 8 | There are few prisoners that I know of , and a hundred people live there , including two or three who are official security guards . |
| 9 | In library education , however , there are few areas where it is necessary to use moving images . |
| 10 | Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it . |
| 11 | ‘ And there 's been another visitor since you left . ’ |
| 12 | So an example of words we should use are this example and there 's a handout to write , to recite , to identify , to differentiate , to solve , to construct , to list , to compare , to controls . |
| 13 | The most awkward response is that of a partial similar , there are some improvements but there are still problem symptoms . |
| 14 | There are some cases that you simply can not investigate properly without an engineer 's report . |
| 15 | There are some things that we simply have to … let go . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Before I kiss you , ’ she said , ‘ there are some things that I want to say . |
| 17 | There are some things that I can deal with better than you . |
| 18 | Here are some questions that you can answer by trying tests with woodlice . |
| 19 | The UN Environment Programme is gathering information about ozone depleters , and there are some fears that it might add further chlorinated solvents to the list . |
| 20 | You 'll probably find that there are some bits that you 've almost forgotten about already , but other bits are still quite fresh in your mind . |
| 21 | So why do n't we reply to the people who put this suggestion that in reprinting it 'll be taken into account but there are some reasons that we ca n't follow it completely and that , two chief of which are different , where colour is used for coding and erm , secondly what Richard has just said . |
| 22 | But there are some staff that we we assess their competency of employer visiting . |
| 23 | There are some foods that you should try to exclude from your meals if you want to stay trim and slim . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of our members are asking what this means and there are some suggestions that they should go ahead and use the title anyway . ’ |
| 25 | Gloucester 's success implies a more effective use of the patronage at his disposal , and there are some suggestions that he was running the duchy in his own interests . |
| 26 | Gloucester 's success implies a more effective use of the patronage at his disposal , and there are some suggestions that he was running the duchy in his own interests . |
| 27 | Here are some suggestions that you can follow : try to go where something is being done that you can either watch or participate in . |
| 28 | For instance , in Kelvin Walker 's shop across the road there are some brushes that I need . |
| 29 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 30 | There are some occasions when it is educationally valuable to offer such a child the " centre-stage " for a while through the drama itself . |