Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bond which grows up between them is some compensation for giving up mother . |
| 2 | The separation between them is 21 minutes of arc , and they are genuinely associated ; they are around 29000000 light-years away from us , and 180000 light-years apart . |
| 3 | In Judaeo-Christian tradition , the antithesis between them is another manifestation of the conflict dating back to Cain and Abel . |
| 4 | Bürger in such a context would assimilate both ‘ realist ’ and ‘ modernist ’ art to autonomous and bourgeois art , the only distinction between them being that modernism with its inaccessibility and greater cult of the creator is even more autonomous , more ‘ auratic ’ , than realism . |
| 5 | But the single most important song for me was Public Image by Public Image Ltd . |
| 6 | Measor ( 1983 ; 1984 ) , for example , has shown that children have very clear ideas about which are high-status subjects in school , and which low-status . |
| 7 | It includes the major owners of the means of production , company directors , top managers , higher professionals and senior civil servants , many of whom are large shareholders in private industry . |
| 8 | A ring is an arrangement whereby several dealers all of whom are interested I in a given item agree not to compete in outbidding each other at the public auction but instead to allow one of their number to buy it as cheaply as possible . |
| 9 | ( 1986 ) followed fifty-five children admitted to care , most of whom were young people in residential care . |
| 10 | The arguments dragged on for 11 months , during which time the orangs were looked after by volunteers , many of whom were recent graduates in biology from the National University in Jakarta . |
| 11 | It was a complicated struggle between Welfs and Staufer and their supporters and also between the rival princes themselves , some of whom were great ecclesiastics as Adolf , archbishop of Cologne . |
| 12 | Since mid-1987 over 30,000 Romanians had sought asylum in Hungary , around 80 per cent of whom were ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania . |
| 13 | Among those freed were Col. Luisito Sanchez and Capt. Danilo Lim , both of whom were former members of the elite First Scout Ranger regiment which , in 1989 , had occupied Manila 's financial district for a week during a failed coup attempt . |
| 14 | Later in August 52 members of the outlawed Egyptian Communist Workers ' Party ( ECWP ) were arrested ( see p. 36861 ) , some of whom were prominent members of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights ( EOHR ) , who had helped to publicise the arrests and alleged torture of workers from the Helwan plant . |
| 15 | He now had a mailing list of 250 , only a small minority of whom were active supporters of PANUP . |
| 16 | Firstly , a National Aboriginal Health Strategy has been developed by a 19 member working party , 14 of whom were leading members of the Aboriginal community . |
| 17 | These two groups provided the ‘ steady ’ leadership of labour but were always complemented by the unskilled and the seamen and by socialist intellectuals ( most of whom were manual workers in this period ) working around reproductive issues . |
| 18 | He estimated that below them were 462,000 families of labourers and cottagers , 60,000 dependent on the earnings of common seamen and 18,000 on those of common soldiers . |
| 19 | They form an incomparably useful line on which to trace the gradual mastery of natural forms , and a few of them are great works of sculpture . |
| 20 | Remember , many of them are married men with families and jobs . |
| 21 | Fruits and vegetables , even in their raw , unprocessed state , differ so much that you certainly ca n't say that all of them are useful sources of fibre . |
| 22 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 23 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 24 | And too many of them are deliberate re-runs of those seen in the aforementioned film . |
| 25 | All of them are potential sources of trouble for a beginner in Word . |
| 26 | As the advancing figures crossed the highway towards them , it became evident that four of them were unwilling members of the group . |
| 27 | The figure that I have is about 800 submissions , but most of them were tear-out strips from newspapers . |
| 28 | Most of them were young horsemen on the East Anglian farms and a braided belt was almost part of the dress . |
| 29 | Jack Foley 's eyes rarely left Nan 's face , but she seemed to be unaware of this and talked as if all three of them were equal partners in the conversation . |
| 30 | Most of them were senior members of the Institute and Hall could well have been surprised to find himself confronted with a group of men bound together by a considerable degree of common purpose and understanding . |