Example sentences of "[prep] be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we ever hear about are disasters and complaints and things that have gone wrong . |
| 2 | So what about are beavers , |
| 3 | The other thing I 'm going to talk about are intervals . |
| 4 | All he cares about are women and booze . |
| 5 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 6 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ What we 're talking about are refinements — fine-tuning . |
| 8 | What is clear from this , though , is that what we are talking about are conventions , and it is obvious that conventions derive their meaning from social contexts . |
| 9 | His final work , on children , he advertised as fulfilling his promise to follow up the Tractatus , but in ‘ more hast ’ , because ‘ I see my glasse runs apace ’ : De morbis puerorum , or , a treatise of the diseases of children … very useful for all such as are housekeepers ( 1653 ) . |
| 10 | Now it 's one of those unfortunate things that when people talk about maintaining standards , the only sort of , in an sense , external sort of guidance they 've got to go for are things like examination passes . |
| 11 | Th this company must be in a bloody sight worse a mess than we thought and the government are not letting us know this is what they 're look for are scapegoats and they they 're . |
| 12 | In between are variations in phenomena such as El Nino . |
| 13 | Must of been loads and they 're opening , there 's a new new stadium |
| 14 | and the aargh , just squeezed in and this lad sort of shit himself completely and went zoom right up the road then , well I knew what was gon na happen so I dropped right back and er how he missed him I do n't know , it must of been inches or itches |
| 15 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 16 | So I could of been days |
| 17 | The qualities that are disapproved of are ones they do n't think they have , or consider that they keep under control . |
| 18 | The only good and powerful females I can think of are fairies ( ie , not real people ) and for every fairy godmother there are 10 wimpy heroines waiting for a prince to rescue them . |
| 19 | ‘ What I 've run out of are words that would describe a man like you without — without blistering the paint on these walls ! ’ |
| 20 | With those he attacks he shares the premiss that all that we are directly aware of are ideas , which have no existence apart from a perceiving mind . |
| 21 | cos we done not a lot this morning like I just sort of be zombies , I 'm sure we could do play with |
| 22 | The result has been that the majority of boards produced today fall under the blanket description of being funboards , although there are in fact a number of different designs . |
| 23 | The three had frequently been accused by Israel of being leaders of the intifada . |
| 24 | Throughout Western culture there 's less sense of expanding opportunity ( the original motor of youth music ) and more fear , more sense of being embattles . |
| 25 | This similarity should caution against making too firm a distinction between the three ; for example one might have sought to make distinctions in terms of being instances of either ‘ new ’ or ‘ old ’ racism , especially on the grounds that new racists , unlike old racists , will justify their position by citing non-racial general principles ( Sniderman and Tetlock , 1986a , 1986b ; see also Potter and Wetherell , 1987 , for arguments against deducing ‘ true ’ attitudes from discourse ) . |
| 26 | In Petrograd , the Kadets accused the Rada of being agents of the Germans , and the newspaper of the Soviet , Izvestia , proclaimed : |
| 27 | However , only a few Nonjurors became active Jacobites , in the sense of being agents or conspirators . |
| 28 | Furthermore , even the archaic powers that had not started from the position of being nation-states were forced to compete ; the Tsars thrust their reach eastwards to block the British advance in Asia , to stop the other Europeans in China , and finally to try to halt the westward movement of Japan . |
| 29 | Young Kashmiris , suspected of being militants , stir out reluctantly , fearing detention and interrogation . |
| 30 | A few points here , the quickest being that people do n't accuse their pop heroes of being racists when they make crap records , they accuse them of making crap records . |