Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 2 | I walked in with David and there was this guy with a mass of curly hair siting behind a desk , looking very Jewish , not like the Jewish businessman , though he is a wonderful businessman . |
| 3 | and yet you go to Taiwan and there 's some sort of , land reform which ends up in , in a very equal distribution |
| 4 | We are now left with major nuclear arsenals in Russia , the Ukraine , Byelorussia and Kazakhstan and there is great uncertainty hanging over those areas . |
| 5 | A six O four , Catworth to Stratford and there 's single line traffic working there , and er on the M , sorry , the M four that 's er seems to be running fairly smoothly , westbound traffic is a little slow moving however . |
| 6 | Tweed was desperately anxious to get to Freiburg and it was late afternoon already . |
| 7 | However , the official message belied private concern that the prospects for fresh talks have worsened since the last Anglo-Irish meeting in July and there was little sign that the meeting would result in substantial progress . |
| 8 | ‘ I had a very close relationship with Johanna and she was good fun to be with , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 10 | Oh by the way if you see Jackie say yours made one glove for Matthew and he 's half way through the next one . |
| 11 | And now he 's do he 's done one for Matthew and he 's half way through the other one . |
| 12 | There were open-air services during the summer on the beaches at Yarmouth and Bournemouth and there were inter-denominational Communion Services as an exercise in ecumenism . |
| 13 | Wales is not the most prosperous part of the United Kingdom and there is great bitterness there over the antics of Welsh Water . |
| 14 | Banking policy , both in Germany and in France , is far more geared to industry than is the case in the United Kingdom and there is considerable pressure on the German government to maintain grossly inefficient production in East Germany , which it can do by enlisting the aid of the banks . |
| 15 | Next to Paul Theroux and me were two lady companions . |
| 16 | This temperature difference may in fact have significance in that the WLF equation has an infinity for a temperature about 50° below Tg and there is some evidence that the extrapolation of plots of equilibrium data below Tg gives intercepts at about 50° below Tg . |
| 17 | Marion and I are living day by day . |
| 18 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 19 | Beaker pottery is very widespread in Europe and there is little doubt that the style was initially introduced to Britain from the Continent . |
| 20 | His 1939 journey took place at a time when anti-British sentiments were beginning to reach Hadhramaut from Cairo and there was increasing criticism of the privileges of sayyid rulers . |
| 21 | It would , however , be a great mistake to dismiss the event as an act of folly without any serious consequences , for the proof of the existence of a serious candidate led to the definite rebirth of Bonapartism as a political force in France and it was this movement which was later to carry Louis-Napoleon to power . |
| 22 | Cullam and he were both lorry drivers , both lived in council accommodation , but that was all they had in common . |
| 23 | I was talking to a friend of mine actually on Monday who is erm parti partially Indian and come from India and from Calcutta and she is high caste but she 's a Catholic as well so she 's her attitude 's different she 's lived in England most of her life but she ca n't get over the attitude of some of her relatives in India to the poor because they 're lower caste . |
| 24 | Villepreux , however , has a long-term contract with Italian club Benetton Treviso and he is unlikely renege on it unless the French Federation is prepared to match the terms of the deal . |
| 25 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
| 26 | Well John and I are both Chair Person , are Co-Chair at the moment , erm |
| 27 | The project has partners in Barcelona and Dublin and there is potential interest from Greece . |
| 28 | One of them came to see Right Said Fred in Los Angeles and there was lighthearted talk of a collaboration . |