Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those are practical methods , all of them are working , and all of them are delivering better health care and will deliver faster health care . |
| 2 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 3 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 4 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 5 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 6 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |
| 7 | However , although the large charitable institutions of the later nineteenth century continued , there are signs that many of them were finding increasing difficulty in raising funds and few significant new charities appear to have been founded . |
| 8 | Cycling , like walking , is one of the best ways of seeing and enjoying the countryside , and mountain bikes have proved to be the latest and most popular method of ‘ green ’ transport : over 1 million of them were sold last year . |
| 9 | The two of them were crouched either side of a mass of scrawled diagrams in the dirt . |
| 10 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 11 | All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’ |
| 12 | Well if the people at the back of her were having terrible row ah I I ha I hated it , it was horrible . |
| 13 | Neither of us is making much sense of this right now . |
| 14 | We can not live without it , but many of us are living each day with too little of it . |
| 15 | Chloe seems to have inherited it and the pair of us are wheezing all night long . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Now do n't be mean , ’ Pol said , ‘ and where would the likes of us be getting any money ? ’ |
| 17 | Every policeman was given a pint mug and on night duty we were , have n't , we , each of us was given one pint of coffee . |
| 18 | Against them were marshalled industrial capital in coal mining , shipping and shipbuilding led by the great radical ( Karl Marx 's description ) Joseph Cowen . |
| 19 | Because it looks like you are advocating supporting agriculture . |
| 20 | It sounds more like they 're fighting each other than coming after me . |
| 21 | Negative , extremist , in them are fused sectarian party orthodoxy and individual self-deliverance . |
| 22 | So in five minutes , I 'll ask you a question , and that could result in you 're going next month with Dougie Down Under , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 23 | In it were tucked all manner of bills , receipts and postcards bearing on the activities of the club . |
| 24 | After twenty minutes , her breakfast tray arrived ; upon it was boiling red soup , chocolate ice cream , and a fizzy orange drink . |
| 25 | To them was born another child , Malekith , who was to become the most hated of Elves . |
| 26 | A new scientific report casts doubt over evidence which led to them being cleared last year of running a bomb factory . |
| 27 | About the most exciting thing that happened to me was knocking some ink over . |
| 28 | Idly I wondered why he insisted on them being cooked sunny side up . |
| 29 | For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour , which is Christ the Lord . |
| 30 | For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord . ’ |