Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were the were the coles er would you talk about them being theekit |
| 2 | There are only two human species left and the only bond between them is hatred : the one that crushes and the one that refuses to be crushed " when he pointedly remarked : " In a world brutally divided into those who rule and those who serve , the philosopher must finally acknowledge a long-concealed secret alliance with those who govern or else declare his solidarity with those who are governed . |
| 3 | And former Tory chairman Lord Parkinson said the Prime Minister and Chancellor Kenneth Clarke would ‘ sink or swim together ’ , and talk of rivalry between them was nonsense . |
| 4 | Further research on renters and owners showed that the main difference between them was age . |
| 5 | Mental confusion can be assuaged in many ways , and one of the best ways for me is exercise . |
| 6 | The sticking point in faith for me was abnegation . |
| 7 | Spread out below them were Dingle Harbour and Ventry Bay , and to the west , beyond the sheer cliff of Slea Head , the Blasket Islands poked their treacherous black rocks up through a calm Atlantic . |
| 8 | " I know that a great part of me is darkness , not light . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a lot of unpublished manuscripts — one of them 's Dad 's second novel . |
| 10 | We had a good ride — quite a hard one , I had difficulty keeping up , though towards the end they were getting noticably slower ! — and we were then invited to one of them 's house for breakfast . |
| 11 | Many of them are Link Schools , and a number of special schools are also included in the scheme . |
| 12 | ‘ HE has tasted all the bread in the sandwiches and approved the menu although he ca n't try all the fillings because some of them are meat and he is vegetarian ’ — Laurence Myers on the opening of Gary Glitter 's sandwich bar . |
| 13 | All of them are shit and rubbish recording . |
| 14 | Few Washingtonians talk like this , perhaps because few of them are Yankee patrician war heroes , perhaps because politics has rubbed the gleam off them . |
| 15 | The streets round about are a meat market ; couples rent by the half-hour — I do n't think many of them are man and wife . ’ |
| 16 | Most of them are crud ! |
| 17 | Although the registered disabled comprise a substantial proportion — some 12 per cent — of the population of Britain , only two to three per cent of them are chairbound and only four per cent of the registered blind have a guide dog . |
| 18 | Most of them are rubbish I should think . |
| 19 | Oh most of them are polyester . |
| 20 | SAS claims three million users and 100,000 installations worldwide — around 11,000 of them are Unix — with 35,000 European sites . |
| 21 | I think she felt wi , you know , some of them are sort of like , a bit unimportant . |
| 22 | So by controlling the concentration of the reagents that will affect which way it goes and a lot of them are temperature sensitive , we heat it up it goes one way , cool it down it goes the other . |
| 23 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 24 | Each of them is part and parcel of the turn-of-the-century crisis in the hegemony of the bourgeoisie . |
| 25 | The significance of these names is that Q and normally have opposite logic states — that is , if one of them is Logic 0 , the other will be Logic 1 . |
| 26 | What was clear from one hearing was that none of them is paste . |
| 27 | More popular than either of them is Radio 2 's ‘ Sunday Half Hour ’ which has presented well-loved hymns for fifty years . |
| 28 | Jane Wright who runs the centre says a common factor to all of them is trouble in forming relationships . |
| 29 | All that remains of the Port Ellen library is the brass Plaque and five volumes in the Gaelic which bear the date 1905 and one of them is number 305 , so it must have been one of the largest as well as one of the early ones . |
| 30 | One of them is bancassurance , a nasty 1980s neologism which describes banks ' efforts to sell insurance products , mostly life and savings policies to retail customers . |