Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thee are 9 arm spines proximally , 7–8 distally in large specimens , 6–8 on smaller ones . |
| 2 | To make sure that the job was done properly , Mr Lobov appointed three new deputy ministers , two of whom are former deputy chairmen of Gosplan , the Soviet central-planning agency . |
| 3 | It is his show in Paris which attracts hoards of fans ( some of whom are hardened fashion journalists ) all keen to catch the first glimpse of Thierry 's latest creations . |
| 4 | And if Graham Taylor sticks with the Wright-Shearer partnership , England wo n't go far wrong in their World Cup qualifying group because both of them are international class . |
| 5 | Many of them are powerful gringo media barons . |
| 6 | Some of them are absolute rubbish some of them are very very very good . |
| 7 | Too many of them are visual firework displays without an emotional centre , or a coherent narrative structure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Among them are Spanish actress Angela Molina and directors Almodóvar and Geraldo Rivera . |
| 12 | And erm a lot of them are retired business men , or , or people still , people in business who give their time freely to it . |
| 13 | Most of them are hard man . |
| 14 | Our team of judges — the majority of them are National Vegetable Society judges — report that competition standards are up . |
| 15 | none of them are full thoroughbred , they are all ⅞thbred so therefore a bit hardier . |
| 16 | and only seventeen of them are full time . |
| 17 | cos some of them are three ply and I thought I 'm not gon na sit and knit three ply . |
| 18 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 19 | Most of them are common sense but you would be surprised how , in our eagerness to succeed , we often forget them . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I tell yer , Joe old cock , my bleedin' trouble is that I 'm misunderstood meself , I been sufferin' misunderstandin' all me life . |
| 22 | Marion and I are living day by day . |
| 23 | Do you think your mother and I are happy hearing you described as Ace Barton 's latest tart ? ’ |
| 24 | Your father and I are worried sick about you . |
| 25 | Well John and I are both Chair Person , are Co-Chair at the moment , erm |
| 26 | " I am Dear Grandfather , " Your Affectionate and Dutiful Grandson , " James Moorhouse . " |
| 27 | I am suffering persecution because I am different . |
| 28 | I am great fan of tennis , especially women 's tennis and a couple of weeks ago I went down to Brighton to the semi-final matches of the Midland Bank Indoor Championships . |
| 29 | Sat 25 11.00am NFT1 Waller 's Last Walk Christian Wagner 's elegiac treatment of an eldery railway inspector 's life ; 10.45am NFT2 In Fading Light Gripping docu-drama on the dying North Shields fishing industry ; 11.00am Curzon West End Romuald and Juliette Coline Serreau 's comedy about an affair between an exec and his black cleaner ; 11.00am Screen on Green Island Paul Cox 's elegant three-hander ; 2.15 NFT1 Guardian/AIP Seminar ; 1.15 NFT2 Martha Jellneck Kai Wessell 's story of an old woman 's relationship with her meals-on-wheels deliverer ; 3.15 NFT2 I Am Living Portrait of contemporary Indian women ; 4.30 NFT1 The Thief of Bagdad Restored version of Korda 's sumptuous Arabian Knights fantasy ; 5.45 NFT2 I Went to The Dance Documentary by Les Blank on the Cajun music of Louisiana ; 7.30 LFMC Programme 7 : Interior Monologues ; 9.00 NFT1 The Kill-Off Maggie Greenwald 's look at a sleazy East Coast seaside resort ; 8.30 NFT2 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Beeban Kidron 's interpretation of Jeanette Winterson 's autobiographical first novel , with Geraldine McEwan ; 8.45 MOMI Smoking Mirror Funereal British comedy , with Beatie Edney ; 11.15 Rio Chicken and Duck Talk See above . |
| 30 | ‘ I am living testimony that Urgent Action and letter writing works ’ , he told the conference . |