Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [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 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 .
3 Many of them are powerful gringo media barons .
4 Some of them are absolute rubbish some of them are very very very good .
5 Too many of them are visual firework displays without an emotional centre , or a coherent narrative structure .
6 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 .
7 Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages .
8 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 .
9 Among them are Spanish actress Angela Molina and directors Almodóvar and Geraldo Rivera .
10 And erm a lot of them are retired business men , or , or people still , people in business who give their time freely to it .
11 Most of them are hard man .
12 Our team of judges — the majority of them are National Vegetable Society judges — report that competition standards are up .
13 none of them are full thoroughbred , they are all ⅞thbred so therefore a bit hardier .
14 and only seventeen of them are full time .
15 cos some of them are three ply and I thought I 'm not gon na sit and knit three ply .
16 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 .
17 Most of them are common sense but you would be surprised how , in our eagerness to succeed , we often forget them .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 Marion and I are living day by day .
20 Do you think your mother and I are happy hearing you described as Ace Barton 's latest tart ? ’
21 Your father and I are worried sick about you .
22 Well John and I are both Chair Person , are Co-Chair at the moment , erm
23 erm , and erm he sells smaller bits , but they are cheaper , obviously , and his are eighty centimetre cube of gold , okay ?
24 And er we did say that we would consult further about it , and erm you are one constituency , er which certainly you know , er as is your responsibility to think about the worship line of the church .
25 Here you are one time only twenty s twenty per cent savings on a single purchase of Debenhams own brand throughout the store erm Debenhams has bought to blah blah blah outstanding values da da da and to encourage to do your Christmas shopping at Debenhams we 'll making a special offer that you wo n't be able to resist until December the twenty fourth commencing on November you can get an amazing twenty per cent off at any Debenhams own bought range , that means you can shop throughout the store , visit every floor , buy all your gifts under one roof and save twenty per cent providing you do all your shopping in one go to get the benefit of the voucher because the voucher can only be used once from men 's , woman 's fashions , accessory , children 's clothes , furnishings , gifts simply present this voucher and attach simply present the voucher attach and receive the train fare discount , we hope you enjoy your shopping .
26 Some employers are only just getting round to formalising recruitment and retention policies - and all that goes with them — it may be that you are one step ahead of them in attempting to update yourself appropriately .
27 If you 're in Error you are one step away from the thumbscrews .
28 ‘ Polly Levington , you are one hell of a woman . ’
29 If you thought what the people said possessed an intrinsic interest , if you wrote it down verbatim and pictured yourself as a sort of secretary to the outside world , recording something which had its own imaginative value but would otherwise have been lost , then you are one sort of writer — a naturalist .
30 You are all woman !
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