Example sentences of "be [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're teddy bears by the looks of it . |
| 2 | Christmas is coming up and there are chemistry sets in the shops . |
| 3 | Christmas is coming up and there are chemistry sets in the shops . |
| 4 | Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are object lessons about the dangers of letting industry befoul the environment in the name of economic growth . |
| 5 | There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases . |
| 6 | The wall is crenellated but there are iron bars between the gaps . |
| 7 | ( 5 ) The offer documents will be investment advertisements for the purposes of FSA 1986 , s57 and will need to be issued by or approved by an authorised person , usually the offeror 's merchant bank or stockbroker ( see para 11.4.2 below ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I take half the coke and my boy gets to be water boy for the Flamingoes and sit on the bench . ’ |
| 9 | Now Daniel was difficult , telling her not to come to the hospital , where he was to be Father Christmas in the children 's ward . |
| 10 | Close to each boundary , however , becomes much smaller — the boundary conditions require it to be zero right at the walls — and the second term of ( 22.11 ) must become much larger . |
| 11 | What I would like to see would be language centres for the professions and vocations as well as for export . |
| 12 | They are in a quiet part of the city , an old quarter where there are brass kicking-plates on the thresholds of the closed shops , their cross-hatchings worn almost smooth by years of polishing . |
| 13 | There are Dwarf settlements within the mountains , but these are fewer in number and less wealthy than the mighty Dwarf Holds of the Worlds Edge Mountains . |
| 14 | I know that there are gif sites in the states : wuarchive.wustl.edu is one of them . |
| 15 | He and his wife Rita , had been model parents to the twins and had never understood why their sons were basically bad . |
| 16 | There are police records of the times and frequency of the calls to the ambulance service . |
| 17 | There were sand drifts in the corners , and what I took for lace curtains at the windows turned out to be spider webs . |
| 18 | Hints were dropped that the suffragettes in question were lady friends of the employers , that invitations to " My Lady 's tea-parties " were issued , and so on . |
| 19 | The improved runners ' trophies for the year were Graham Trott for the men , and Stephanie Hickman for the ladies . |
| 20 | Three bottles had exploded off their tops and there were wine stains on the walls . |
| 21 | But there were life readings in the walls , floors and turbine-generators within the factory itself . |
| 22 | There were Blake prints on the walls , the Inferno scenes , Nebuchadnezzar with his eagle 's talons , the naked Newton with his golden curls . |
| 23 | Although some of them were just small farms which had developed out of native settlements , others were country houses at the centres of large estates . |
| 24 | There were fruit trees amongst the flowers , here a pear tree , there a currant bush , so that one could either smell a rose , crush a verbena , or eat a fruit ; there were borders of box , but also of sorrel and chibol ; and the stiff battalion of leeks , shallots , and garlic , the delicate pale-green foliage of the carrot , the aggressive steel-grey leaves of the artichokes , the rows of lettuce which always ran to seed too quickly . |
| 25 | There had been a shoot-out there once , there were bullet pocks in the walls , but it had been a very brief scene , and no one had bothered to return . |
| 26 | It will be chaired by Steve Pinhay , the producer of ITV 's Saturday Night At The Movies , a programme which keeps on sending me press releases saying how wonderful it is but , when I actually watch it , seems to ignore the independent cinema entirely , particularly the variety that actually dares to speak in a foreign tongue . |
| 27 | JANE MACQUITTY has been writing about wine since 1975 and is wine correspondent for The Times . |
| 28 | That important point is well argued in an article in ’ Justice of the Peace ’ by Mr. T. G. Moore , who is deputy clerk to the justices in Nottingham . |
| 29 | Trevor Isles who 's Deputy Clerk to the Justices in north Oxfordshire is also confident the unit fine system will be fairer , he says ‘ if successful , it could be adopted on a national scale ’ . |
| 30 | It is Sunday morning in the suburbs . |