Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were close brothers and it 's terrible news to hear for any family . ’ |
| 2 | These , accumulating during this second period created an almost limitless reservoir of units and it is this reservoir which can be regarded as being identified with the state of the Created God at the time of the dawn of civilisation . |
| 3 | ‘ In such a fragmented market , there are hundreds of firms satisfying clients without having specialist units and there is tremendous loyalty , so as a means to getting them to change they do n't work , ’ said . |
| 4 | The general improvement in the economy of the United States brought increased demand in most of our market sectors and there was rapid growth in the semiconductor industry which boosted our electronic materials business . |
| 5 | Ali but 4% of the farms in Norway were under 50 acres and there is little movement in and out of the industry . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't practise scoring direct from corner-kicks and it was just luck that the first one went in . |
| 7 | All of this is coming about as a direct result of the original plan for the Local Management of Schools and it 's continuing success , in spite of the Labour Group and not because of it , and so I move the amendment my Lord Mayor . |
| 8 | When the mother was able to anticipate a problem the children made fewer demands and there was less need to control the child . |
| 9 | The growing emphasis on healthy as distinct from ‘ junk , food can upset parents when all their child seems to like is fish fingers and chips and there is complete refusal of fresh meat and vegetables . |
| 10 | Both the script and the language are the same at Cretan and mainland sites and there is general agreement that the language is an early kind of Greek . |
| 11 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 12 | As the Lollipops were finishing and preparing to go on tour , twenty-four Tiller Girls were in the Ziegfeld Follies and there were sixteen Sunshine Girls at the Globe Theatre . |
| 13 | The Lions will be threatened by fullback John Timu 's try-scoring skills and there is real class in the centre with Frank Bunce and Walter Little . |
| 14 | At one time the kings and princes of Europe acquired these skills and there was much training required to give the animals the necessary muscular strength . |
| 15 | Some 80% of all personal computers are used primarily for word processing activities and there is obvious crossover from this position to the full featured page makeup package . |
| 16 | Investment in canals had brought prosperity for many shareholders and there was similar enthusiasm to invest in the railways . |
| 17 | Systems are relevant to how you run your office , not how you run your cases and there is little reference to the transaction criteria . |
| 18 | and there 's one in there This is January savers and there 's another catalogue . |
| 19 | Sadly , over the years , it has been far too easy for men such as Beck to infiltrate the sloppy system used by many local authorities and it was high time that the Government took steps to prevent further scandals . |
| 20 | So if there 's a burglar then , he 'll probably be put off by I mean if he really wanted to break into any particular house for a reason , you , you might approach it , but if you have n't got th no firm house in mind you 've several houses and there 's one house without any lights on at all and it was night time , you may well go for that one first . |
| 21 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 22 | It is clear from unofficial remarks by Sony that they see the initial market in ‘ interactive music ’ applications and there is little doubt that the hi-fi stereo music capabilities of the player will be one of the keys to early mass market success . |
| 23 | These verses do not appear in all early manuscripts and there is some doubt as to whether they were originally part of Luke 's Gospel . ) |
| 24 | He 's gone off after your dad before , times out of mind — but two-three days and he 's allus home again , wanting fed . ’ |
| 25 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 26 | The U V F which is now a much larger terrorist organization has responded by killing catholics and there 's tremendous fear now in both communities , there used to be just fear in the protestant communities , they were being attacked by the I R A , but now as the Cardinal has said there 's very big fear in the catholic community as well . |
| 27 | The bodies of these cars were carried on channel steel underframes and there were steel platform bearers . |
| 28 | You move that decimal point you see , in two places and it 's one point three . |
| 29 | Think in terms of putting a one in front of that and then moving a decimal point two places and it 's one point four five . |
| 30 | Complaints to the BR watchdog have now doubled in five years and there 's little hope of things improving . |