Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
| 2 | Among them are a surprising ( or is it ? ) number of aeroplanes bearing Cayman Islands letters , many of which I 'll bet have never been near that tax ; haven , the late Cap'n Bob 's pair of liquidator-awaiting , Bermudan-registered Gulfstreams , appropriately VR-BOB and VR-BRM , and a host of N-numbered machines which no doubt the Gatwick-based FAA inspectors looking for illegally operated U.S.-registered aircraft will find enlightening . |
| 3 | Among them are a Russian Jew , who fled his native land after avenging the murder of his father , and the son of a poor Italian farmer . |
| 4 | So do n't forget the one thousand who do n't think any of them are a good team , add all those up and that will give you a fourth equation . |
| 5 | Revisited ’ has only got about 15 minutes of decent songs — and eight of them are a live version of The Velvet Underground 's ‘ What Goes On ? ’ which is n't psychedelic at all , really . |
| 6 | and course with that Ron on the , of course you know , he tells jokes and some of them are a little bit crude , but , they take all in good part , you know , I said to dad I said you do n't always , he 's that dry |
| 7 | Some of the Discourses printed in them are no more than a title , but most are published in full . |
| 8 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 9 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 10 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 11 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 12 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 13 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 14 | At any instant , three of them are the current required settings of the three motors ; three are the previous required settings , a third of a second earlier ; three are the required settings a third of a second before then ; and so on . |
| 15 | Between them are the tall , narrow , round-headed windows . |
| 16 | Among them are the four remaining pictures shown by Betty Parsons , whose checklist notes seventeen works , the complete set of five White Paintings conceived in 1951 and recreated , under Rauschenberg 's instructions , by Brice Marden in 1968 , twelve Black Paintings , three gold leaf paintings , fifteen collages created in Rome and North Africa in the last months of 1952 , and thirteen box sculptures incorporating stones , thorns , an insect and other material . |
| 17 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 18 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 19 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 20 | Not all of them are the high mileage though are they ? |
| 21 | Whatever your Dreams , the steps towards achieving them are the same . |
| 22 | Musicians and artists to them are the same as tramps and winos , whereas , in a place like Germany , musicians are respected for their occupation . ’ |
| 23 | The variation in name appears to be the major difference between the two types of minor authorities : the functions allocated to them are the same . |
| 24 | Amongst them are the last great wild gardens of the earth still harbouring uncatalogued varieties of creatures and man . |
| 25 | For example , the granites and the psammitic lithologies of the Central Highland Division and the Grampian Group are low in magnesium , copper , cobalt and ( to a lesser extent ) calcium , and soils developed on them are an inadequate buffer against acid rain — a potential threat to freshwater fisheries in the area . |
| 26 | For such areas the routeways traversed to reach them are an integral part of the attraction of the resource and need to be included in assessment . |
| 27 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 28 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 29 | Mark Calcavecchia and I are a good team ; we can relax with each other — that 's the key . " |
| 30 | ‘ Apart from a few people at the Kremlin and at Number Ten , you and I are the only people who know of the situation . ’ |