Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some people think we 're a black arts centre . |
| 2 | cos you know they 're a million times ahead . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're a million miles from that . |
| 4 | Perhaps the book Lamentations is not the book you normally turn to find words of encouragement , but they 're a tremendous encouragements to be found in it . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're under attack and we 're a hundred metres up . ’ |
| 6 | Let's say erm we forget about all that ten pound early and you owed me a hundred pounds , right , and I say erm forget that , just , just take it away , forget it it 's gone , you 're a hundred pounds better off . |
| 7 | Okay so they 're a few options to try as regards the coding |
| 8 | We 're a few minutes early … ’ |
| 9 | I think there 're , there 're a few things erm , I think you asked the question er , Peter , about having eighteen people on one base all got to work together . |
| 10 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 11 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
| 12 | Oh , you 're a hard women , och I 'll buy you . |
| 13 | They 're a main discounters . |
| 14 | Beats me why you would want to know though … unless you 're a secret hammers fan ! |
| 15 | And there 're a dozen others — Peter . |
| 16 | For the accounts illiterate , it presents a very steep learning curve , and some re-learning if you 're an established Windows user . |
| 17 | I am a 13 years old Andre Agassi fanatic who is very satisfied with the newsletters , and great photos . |
| 18 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 20 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
| 21 | She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him . |
| 22 | I am a lesbian women of colour whose children eat regularly because I work in a university . |
| 23 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 24 | And there must have been a hundred copies of a pamphlet on the campaign against street trading in animals . |
| 25 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 26 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 27 | What , then , of life and death in a typical Victorian family , compared with the way things had been a hundred years previously ? |
| 28 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 29 | The children , however , were persistent and led the way round to the side of the building , stopping at what had probably been a small parcels office . |
| 30 | The grandstand/insurance fiddle has been a complete balls up . |