Example sentences of "[prep] be the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Nayacakalou ( 1961 , p. 125 ) has said , ‘ the people in a village can not be bothered with neat pigeonholes — what they are concerned about are the exigencies of their daily lives ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ The experts I 'm talking about are the ex-members of various secret services and police forces . |
| 3 | Could it be that the only people they really care about are the ones who can afford big cars and foreign holidays ? |
| 4 | What I am talking about are the contexts in which people have sexual relationships . |
| 5 | While it was the foetus or child en ventre sa mère who was injured , the damages sued for are the damages suffered by the plaintiff Ann since birth and which she will continue to suffer as a result of that injury . |
| 6 | All you have to pay for are the meals . |
| 7 | The idea is to spend a few days at a hotel and all you have to pay for are the meals and any extras , such as wine . |
| 8 | One of the most welcome sights around Hailing which we can thank the Romans for are the pheasants , it is reckoned they were first introduced by them and were quickly established here in Kent . |
| 9 | What Fussell is looking for are the records of the little people , to discover what the war was like for them . |
| 10 | No , the only buggers Sam Snort has any time for are the boys down in the gay bars who have affectively tendered their resignation from the Snortian fields of romantic endeavour . |
| 11 | WHAT TO LISTEN FOR Are the walls solid or can you hear the neighbours clearly through them ? |
| 12 | It was better than the other one , it might of been the seats but I do n't think so because I mean there was so much in this one |
| 13 | They are redundant , but not because the world can be described in terms of eternal " propositions which are true or false in virtue of being the propositions they are , but because they advertise certain claims which can equally successfully be conveyed implicitly , viz. by asserting the proposition or its negation , as the case may be . |
| 14 | Keith Hainge , 37 , has the advantage of being the parks area manager for Brent . |
| 15 | But because they are supposed to be utterly other and not-us — the barbarians outside the city — and because we the powerful can not imagine the situation of being the victims of such a war , this normality is perceived as incomprehensible . |
| 16 | Baghdad 's accusing Tehran of being the servants of Zionism was a reference to the Israeli role in resupplying Iran 's armed forces in what came to be known as Irangate ; in a broadcast in February 1986 , Baghdad radio named the Israeli agent Colonel Nimrudi , who featured prominently in separate coverage of the affair . |
| 17 | Cook characterises Hewlett-Packard 's Unix as being closer to standard Unix than IBM 's and the company 's boast of being the worlds largest supplier of Unix systems is an obvious attraction . |
| 18 | Cook characterises Hewlett-Packard 's Unix as being closer to standard Unix than IBM 's and the company 's boast of being the worlds largest supplier of Unix systems is an obvious attraction . |
| 19 | It is interesting to summarise them here , for instead of being the exceptions that once they were , they are now commonplace : |
| 20 | While shareholders are not the owners of the company 's assets as a matter of strict law , they are in substance the owners by virtue of being the contributors of the company 's capital . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , what Simon could or thought he could dispose of were the pictures . |
| 22 | You 've got to mention in Scotland the one thing that we 've got to be proud of is the children 's panel system because |
| 23 | When Philip woke , the first thing he thought of was the pheasants . |
| 24 | She should be pleased and excited , but all she could think of was the complications it would add to her life . |
| 25 | The only bit of the picture she was sure of was the leaves , the outline of the hills and the brand new moon . |
| 26 | ‘ Better files than people , I told him , but that did not interest him : all he could think of was the files . ’ |
| 27 | Pretty soon , if you consider that the only gags he feels at home with are the ones that get stuffed in his mouth in the interest of his , er , research . |
| 28 | It was this feeling of injustice on the part of the poor that brought into being the guilds , secular organizations of the laity whose members ' contributions were pooled to endow masses to be sung for the souls of the poor . |
| 29 | Yes , I do believe in trying to persuade people that the things I believe in are the things they should follow … |
| 30 | There is the rumbling , heard during the election campaign , that his organisation ‘ United We Stand America ’ is far from being the grass-roots citizens ' army that he says it is , more a body tightly controlled by Mr Perot and a handful of lieutenants in Dallas . |