Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [noun pl] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that as we are leaders in many forms of oil technology we have every reason to expect that we shall get some good export orders for that technology ? |
| 2 | ‘ We are owners of many cattle . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know much about their private affairs , ’ said Melissa guardedly , ‘ except that they are friends of many years ’ standing and have shared a house since they both became widows some time ago . ’ |
| 4 | They are documents of all sorts which were given to me by my father or which I found among his papers after his death in 1968 . |
| 5 | They are men of few principles . |
| 6 | They are places of many moods : clear , late autumn days when the rock exhibits an embarrassing degree of friction , or the biting cold and raw-limbed excesses of a winter day , usually spent thrutching in dank clefts in an attempt to escape the wind . |