Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Persuade , I think is probably one , is n't it , which is a different , a different word , something that might be using in it 's place . |
| 2 | Now my submission is not intended to be representation that the new settlement should be in the greenbelt and great weight must still be given to it 's protection . |
| 3 | Such stories abound and are important in that often the first thing that needs to be broken in us is pride , fear of men and the need to be in control . |
| 4 | If they do n't , then he says the countryside will be stripped of it 's most important resource — people to work the land . |
| 5 | So if we call it Centenary Sports Ground , the next thing that will be added to it is Brinkley , the Centenary Sports Ground , Brinkley , which is fine . |
| 6 | What in general can not be claimed for him is a specially high level of distinction as a designer . |
| 7 | The most that can be claimed for it is that it is ingenious . |
| 8 | The only improvements which could be made to them are minor ones . |
| 9 | More details of the SFEP appeal and of how contributions can be made to it are available from Michèle Clarke , . |
| 10 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 11 | Mercury in metallic form is not particularly dangerous , but many of the organic compounds that can be made from it are extremely toxic . |
| 12 | There were , he said , 180 parks , forests and chases belonging to the queen , and the rights proposed to be leased in them were worth far more than £40,000 a year . |
| 13 | Such sky as was to be seen between them was as grey as a school sweater . |
| 14 | ‘ There was n't owt to be done about it was there ? |
| 15 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 16 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 17 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 18 | First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals . |
| 19 | The first thing to be said about it is that , whatever background you choose , it must mesh in well with the murder plot . |
| 20 | The scenes of destitution which the journalists could not be prevented from glimpsing-it is impossible to put someone in a hermetic bubble all the time , even for ten days — had not apparently impaired their appetites . |
| 21 | She was almost on the verge of just letting her will be subsumed into his was n't she ? |
| 22 | To begin to see how much might be going on it is worth taking a look at some relevant figures . |
| 23 | The identity booklet ( or key card ) together with any messages or letters that may be waiting for them are handed to the guest . |
| 24 | With linear restrictions on a linear model , then , the F-test is to be preferred for it is valid for any sample size : in most other cases the likelihood ratio test could be used . |
| 25 | But if upgrading of all the wards were to be embarked upon it was evident that it would cost a small fortune . |
| 26 | He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . |
| 27 | Once an SPR has been submitted , all users who may be affected by it are informed , via the mail system , of its existence . |
| 28 | And what use is it to provide more and more high-performance cultural facilities ( an unpleasing phrase ) if the artists who ought to be benefiting from them are lacking ? |
| 29 | This was the first time she had admitted openly that all was not well ; and I was forced to reassure her , for otherwise she might find herself in sympathy with me , she might come to my side , and this was unthinkable , for to be understood by her was a prospect beyond endurance . |
| 30 | He 'll be saying to me is that lady coming who lives in a hole now , Bodger and Badger . |