Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've bought a bottle of whisky and I 'm planning to drink my way right through it . ’ |
| 2 | The program stack is initialised to begin at HIMEM and , because of this , you can not change the value of HIMEM when there is anything on the stack . |
| 3 | I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him . |
| 4 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |
| 5 | I , I really feel two pound fifty is low for the quality of , of play that they 're seeing I mean other amateur groups not that we 're comparing ourselves , but they certainly charge more than us and quite honestly the end product on some of them is not up to our end product . |
| 6 | There are what I have called political uses of assessment and there are educational uses . |
| 7 | Confidence is particularly important during the development of inventions before they are granted patents because a patent will be refused if details of the invention have been made available to the public , as we shall see . |
| 8 | The law of confidence is concerned with the protection of secrets whether they be trade secrets , secrets of a personal nature or concerning the government of the country . |
| 9 | This is called the Hall of Secrets but it is the wrong place to whisper them . |
| 10 | The walls and ceiling were papered with a print of forget-me-nots and there were original water-colours of the fens on the walls and a large portrait of Christ . |
| 11 | I note the minister did n't give er the numbers of apprenticeships and there 's possibly a reason for that . |
| 12 | Individuals may freely endorse an organisational culture or set of values and who is to say that they have been indoctrinated ? |
| 13 | The third edition of 1740 contained a statement by nine residents of Petersfield that she was indeed the author . |
| 14 | erm he would get , he would get a lot of support because it is , it can be read as r as being restorationist but |
| 15 | Unlike Mr Crosby , the Norwich manager did not have the groundswell of support when he was appointed . |
| 16 | When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community ’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . |
| 17 | Glaxo Group Research says it does not have a career break scheme because it believes that ‘ it would be too difficult for our scientists to keep up with the pace of change if they were away from work for an extended period ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ You would be playing rugby with people who are supportive of change and who are non-racial . |
| 19 | However , it is not justifiable to discuss a problem from the angle of insanity if there is no indication of insanity in the facts of the problem . |
| 20 | Now in her case we put her on two fifties but that i uses up an awful lot of skin and it 's a real hassle , so er |
| 21 | Supposing you run out of hotplates and there 's no space to heat up the gravy , or will the sprouts get cold while you 're waiting for the potatoes to cook ? |
| 22 | Local negotiators like me take a lot of stick and I 'm just gon na pass that stick straight on to you , because my members tell me all the time , I pay one thirty five a week , well so do I . |
| 23 | In the darkness and silence of Duval-Leroy 's cellars in nearby Chalone sur Marne , you 'll find more bottles of Champagne than there are people living in London — some 12 million bottles all told , ageing quietly along two and a quarter miles of underground alleyways and lanes . |
| 24 | LOZ was revelling more than most , and after the club closed he dragged sexy woolly hat-wearing NME hack SIMON WILLIAMS around the streets of Islington looking for a pot-bellied old man clutching a bottle of champagne as it was ‘ the only way we 'll get a drink at this time in the morning ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 26 | I 've become very fond of Ellis and I 'm prepared on occasion to be tempted into his latest hare-brained scheme , but I 'm buggered if I 'll carry on like Richard Hannay and his chums in a John Buchan novel . |
| 27 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 28 | If we turn our attention briefly to tobacco , much is made ( and quite rightly ) of the health risks of smoking and we are constantly reminded of the cost to the National Health Service for treating patients with smoking-related diseases . |
| 29 | It was as if I needed proof that your first letter was not some kind of trick and you were dead after all . |
| 30 | I am told by an ex-employee of ICI that there was a curious example of the effects of it some time back . |