Example sentences of "be [noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since also the percentage of assessments below £3 was much the same in Sussex as in Norfolk and Berkshire , a good many farm workers there might have been cottagers who had their own plots of land . |
| 2 | There are alternatives which relieve our immediate tension . |
| 3 | Biology and Chemistry are the most appropriate subjects , but these two sciences are not obligatory for entrance , nor are applicants who offer them given preference . |
| 4 | There are terrorists who want nothing more than publicity . |
| 5 | When to intervene , who should be given powers to do so , and with what long-term aims , are questions which challenge our fundamental social organisation and values . |
| 6 | Corporate entrepreneurs are people who envision something new and make it work . |
| 7 | Now there is a committee of five and like Jim , all are volunteers who spend their free time organising football for the local kids . |
| 8 | ‘ But there are men who consider her beautiful , ’ Isabel remarked , and in the next instant could have bitten her tongue out . |
| 9 | In social situations it has to be recognised that there is at least one other sentient being present who has his own objectives which might accord with or oppose those of the first person . |
| 10 | Charles Temple , Richmond Palmer , Donald Cameron , Philip Mitchell — none of these were men who showed anything less than enthusiasm for the task of imperial government , and all of them were men of dominant personality and exceptional strength of will . |
| 11 | They were aristocrats who traded their healing vocation for fearsome fighting skills to defend the islands from the invading Turks . |
| 12 | Of course , just as there are people who turn to the cake-tin when they are anxious , there are others who find themselves unable to eat at all . |
| 13 | Tails so if it 's tails you read it first |
| 14 | I take all that you have and it 's place and in it 's place I give you all that I have and all that I am . |
| 15 | And there is Blackeyes herself undergoing her first trial by fire under the photographer 's lights and lascivious eye . |
| 16 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 17 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 18 | ‘ It is time we had our own national identity , ’ he said in Sydney . |
| 19 | Perhaps it 's time we visited our noble Prince of Wales and the Lord Gaveston at Woodstock . ’ |
| 20 | It is Gatsby who ruins it all by demanding too much of Daisy . |
| 21 | Sandwiched between them are Gloucester who lost their 100 per cent record at Saracens , the London club holding them to a 12–12 draw . |
| 22 | Cambridge United and Middlesbrough were unable to break the deadlock in the first half of their match , but Taylor gave Cambridge the lead after sixty seven minutes and it was Taylor who made it two nil fifteen minutes from time to give Cambridge a memorable victory . |
| 23 | It was Jackson who did his best to avoid such things . |
| 24 | It was Botham who redeemed his poor bowling and got the crowd going with 42 not out , hitting the winning four off the third ball of the last over . |
| 25 | It was Katya who recognized him first , excitedly letting him into the kitchen , hugging him and kissing his cheeks and his eyes . |
| 26 | One of the men he approached was Spurgeon who gave him this characteristic response : ‘ I sit on my own gate , and whistle my own tunes , and am quite content . ’ |
| 27 | He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find . |
| 28 | ‘ I felt it was time you had your own . ’ |
| 29 | With the greatest of reluctance , I decided that it was time I bought myself another detector . |