Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demolition work has been postponed indefinitely and tonight thee are new moves to give the building protected status . |
| 2 | Thee are two genera present in the North Atlantic abyssal : Asteroschema Orsted & Lütken , 1856 , which is densely covered with granules and has a small ill-defined disk , and Ophiocreas Lyman , 1879 , which is covered mainly by skin although the disk has a light covering of small granules and the disk is slightly larger and more distinct . |
| 3 | Thee are excellent facilities for children , with a kindergarten and a kid 's playground in the Kurpark . |
| 4 | Not for nothing are black holes called black . |
| 5 | I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men . |
| 6 | ‘ The rumours of a reconciliation between James and me are absolute balls , ’ Becky said . |
| 7 | In rural areas the poor , many of whom are agricultural workers , are harnessed to their jobs through their housing , under the system of tied cottages . |
| 8 | Before the Secretary of State sets sail to be Governor of Hong Kong , will he exercise his subtle and calming qualities on behalf of the 5,500 British expatriates , many of whom are Scots engineers working in the oil industry in Libya ? |
| 9 | Ranch meals are invariably big and hearty , and the smaller the ranch the more likely it is you 'll be sitting down to eat with the wranglers , many of whom are great characters . |
| 10 | The questions were raised in proceedings brought against the Secretary of State for Transport by Factortame Ltd. and other companies incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom , and also the directors and shareholders of those companies , most of whom are Spanish nationals ( hereinafter together referred to as ‘ the applicants in the main proceedings ’ ) . |
| 11 | Tribunals consist of a lawyer chairman , many of whom are full-time appointments , sitting with two lay members , one representing employers and one employees . |
| 12 | The limitation of the right to asylum does nothing to improve the status of 6.5m foreigners already in Germany , most of whom are long-time residents . |
| 13 | In that task I am assisted by a team of six managers , all of whom are professional nurses and district nurses or health visitors and they of course are there to advise me on professional issues , and to share with me the management task of using the resources of Oxford City in the way that we feel is best appropriate , and in doing that , I think one of the important things for us to do , I do n't think we do it quite as well as we should , is to work more closely with the local council , and to look really at what the needs of our local communities are for health , and to try and make sure that the feelings that might well be expressed by individuals , either individually , or through caring associations , or through other statutory agencies , or through voluntary health organisations , are actually given a chance to be there , and to influence our , that official policy and constituents , and to , to influence the planning process . |
| 14 | About 17 per cent of all families with children are now headed by a lone parent , nine in ten of whom are lone mothers . |
| 15 | Her husband dies in a car accident alongside another woman and driven by grief and jealousy , she investigates his secret life and becomes entangled with a rather nasty mystic group , some of whom are 400 years old and tend to drop rotting flesh and eyeballs on the carpet . |
| 16 | They were Mr Gilbert , sound recordist Peter Edwards and cameraman Philip Bonham-Carter , both of whom are independent film-makers and have worked on the broadcast before . |
| 17 | It includes the major owners of the means of production , company directors , top managers , higher professionals and senior civil servants , many of whom are large shareholders in private industry . |
| 18 | There are now over 16,000 people who have graduated from the University of Stirling , all of whom are potential members . |
| 19 | Over time , a comprehensive mailing list of nurses can be constructed , all of whom are potential recruits . |
| 20 | OLIVER said that words like everyone and someone and no-one are singular pronouns and must therefore be followed by the singular possessive pronoun , namely his . |
| 21 | In the terms discussed in Chapter 2 during our reinterpretation of the Chicago School , these groups convert certain districts in what for them are front regions . |
| 22 | Many of them are part-time workers and many have had their already small number of hours reduced further . |
| 23 | Fruits and vegetables , even in their raw , unprocessed state , differ so much that you certainly ca n't say that all of them are useful sources of fibre . |
| 24 | Most of them are petty tradesmen . |
| 25 | But some of them are bad-tempered ratbags who should be locked away in a cellar with a lot of other feminists . |
| 26 | Thirty words in addition are phonic alternatives : most of them are reasonable attempts : |
| 27 | These particles , this particular matter is generally given the sort of generic term seston some of those particles are mineral particles some of them are colloidal aggregates as the iron tends , iron , iron , ions tend to come together to form colloids in solution and some of them are particles of biological origin . |
| 28 | Both of them are rotten drivers and I 'd had enough painful experiences for one day . |
| 29 | Among them are outstanding objects from the Olmec , Aztec and Maya civilisations including a turquoise Aztec mosaic mask in the form of two intertwined rattlesnakes , painted codices from pre-Hispanic times , among them the Codex Zouche , stone architectural fragments from Mayan sites and jades from the Olmec period . |
| 30 | The changes taking place are manifested in diverse forms , and have very different starting points , but underlying them are similar sets of questions and pressures . |