Example sentences of "of [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That , I mean , the , the appointments what Jane and Linda do make me , I 'll be honest , they 're quality appointments , not all of them but I would sixty , seventy percent of them are good quality appointments . |
2 | Many of them are powerful gringo media barons . |
3 | And erm a lot of them are retired business men , or , or people still , people in business who give their time freely to it . |
4 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
5 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
6 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
7 | Our team of judges — the majority of them are National Vegetable Society judges — report that competition standards are up . |
8 | The most obvious example of them is third person pronouns ( she/her/hers/herself ; he/him/his/himself ; it/its/itself ; they/them/their/ theirs/themselves ) . |
9 | Some of our best writers are on the staff of the magazine , and one of them is Associate Editor Anne Boston . |
10 | I 've taken three of them , and one of them is this Jamie Baird . |
11 | He defeated three other candidates , one of them being leading Sajudis member Romualdas Ozalas . |
12 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
13 | Some of them were floating milk calculi , others tiny pedunculated tumours , injuries to the teat lining , all sorts of things . |
14 | One of them was British director John Dexter , who was casting Peter Shaffer 's The Royal Hunt of the Sun , to be performed at ANTA in October 1965 . |
15 | One of them was local farmer Barry Colman . |
16 | Even more remarkable , quite a few of you were certain Mike Channon did play . |
17 | On a low table in front of her were some engineering trade magazines and a copy of the Financial Times . |
18 | It 's particularly concerned about conditions in Jordanian refugee camps which two of it 's Middle East staff , sent on a fact finding mission , have described as grim . |
19 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
20 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
21 | All I could get out of 'im was this gymnasium Billy was interested in . |
22 | ‘ Neither of us is very show business , and we 're very happy together . ’ |