Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That , I mean , the , the appointments what Jane and Linda do make me , I 'll be honest , they 're quality appointments , not all of them but I would sixty , seventy percent of them are good quality appointments . |
2 | Many of them are powerful gringo media barons . |
3 | And erm a lot of them are retired business men , or , or people still , people in business who give their time freely to it . |
4 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
5 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
6 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
7 | Our team of judges — the majority of them are National Vegetable Society judges — report that competition standards are up . |
8 | The most obvious example of them is third person pronouns ( she/her/hers/herself ; he/him/his/himself ; it/its/itself ; they/them/their/ theirs/themselves ) . |
9 | Some of our best writers are on the staff of the magazine , and one of them is Associate Editor Anne Boston . |
10 | Some of them were floating milk calculi , others tiny pedunculated tumours , injuries to the teat lining , all sorts of things . |
11 | One of them was British director John Dexter , who was casting Peter Shaffer 's The Royal Hunt of the Sun , to be performed at ANTA in October 1965 . |
12 | One of them was local farmer Barry Colman . |
13 | Below him are four Deputy Registrars who head the four main divisions of the central administrative service , namely the Secretary of Faculties ( Academic Division ) , a Deputy Registrar ( General Administrative Division ) , the Secretary of the Chest ( Finance Division ) , and the Surveyor to the University ( Buildings Division ) . |
14 | On a low table in front of her were some engineering trade magazines and a copy of the Financial Times . |
15 | It 's particularly concerned about conditions in Jordanian refugee camps which two of it 's Middle East staff , sent on a fact finding mission , have described as grim . |
16 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
17 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
18 | All I could get out of 'im was this gymnasium Billy was interested in . |
19 | ‘ Neither of us is very show business , and we 're very happy together . ’ |
20 | In the low bank behind him were three rabbit holes . |
21 | THE Russians are to build their first Western-style theme park — and the inspiration behind it is British cartoon dog Digswell . |
22 | With me was another church architect , Sir Kingsley Amis . |
23 | The Gloucestershire Regiment — shortly to face being amalgamated as part of the Governments defence cuts — wants more young recruits and spending a day with them is one way potential soldiers find out if it 's the life for them . |
24 | Approach road junctions with great care , consider your road position and your speed , drive on only when you are sure it is safe to do so and that you will not block the junction , watch out for long vehicles which maybe turning left or right , at the junction ahead , but which may have to use to make a turn , when waiting to emerge at a junction , do not assume that a vehicle approaching from the right which is signalling with it 's left hand direction indicator would turn left , wait to make sure do you know what I mean ? |
25 | Taking more than a passing interest in the glam rock movement of the '70s , Suede 's debut — with it 's thick pounding drum intro , drawled Bowie-like vocals and brash bursts of chugging guitar — was never likely to pass unnoticed . |
26 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
27 | No one wants to feel owned by another person , and perhaps what Matthew needs from you is some breathing space , some freedom , a demonstration of trust in him . ’ |
28 | Penetration in many instances is not related to a property of the organism itself , in most instances it 's re related to some form of injury in which the organism is moved from it 's normal skin location to a deep tissue location . |
29 | And they would face certain disaster if the treasury goes ahead with plans to cut 270 million pounds from it 's overseas aid budget . |
30 | In it 's 11 year history , this is the first to crash in peacetime . |