Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | she was better ages ago |
2 | ‘ Well , maybe we were better nomes for it , ’ mumbled Masklin . |
3 | Bobs : Taken from the Amiga , where they are Blitter Objects . |
4 | As a whole they are better laws . ’ |
5 | ‘ They are better women than I , ’ she said bravely . |
6 | The working class in effect delegates investment decisions to capitalists because they are better allocators of investment funds , especially in resisting the temptation to consume too much out of the current social product . |
7 | But I think that if both fathers and mothers share in the upbringing of small babies they are better parents and the child definitely is happier . |
8 | Indeed , more than 30 per cent of clients are women who are generally more successful as they are better listeners and tend not to rush at obstacles . |
9 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
10 | They are slimmer-looking birds than our own Eurasian plovers , and with darker underwings . |
11 | Sadly the voices of reason are overwhelmed or ignored , even though in the long-term they are safer guardians of our values . |
12 | Diesels have greater rate springs than their equivalent petrol models , as they are heavier vehicles . |
13 | After all , some dot matrix printers can actually produce a greater number of dots per inch than a page printer , it 's just that they are bigger dots and tend to overlap . |
14 | Although they are rarer fossils , some of them are of such interest that they are worth mentioning here . |
15 | Rosenthal speculates that pepper and chocolate are classed as masculine because they are stronger flavours than salt and vanilla , while Chevrolet is feminine because of its sound ( it 's a longer word than Ford , has an open vowel at the end , connotes ‘ Frenchness ’ ) and knife is masculine because of the association with aggression . |
16 | They 're heavier ones |
17 | Yeah well they 're bigger carrots . |
18 | Now they 're better Jews than their own parents ever were — I know one chap from Willesden Green who wo n't even eat in his mother 's kitchen any more . |
19 | They 're smaller things , good . |
20 | A lot of them treat you more as a sort of friend and an equal rather than looking down … there 's a few teachers who treat you like a child rather than like themselves , but most of them are very friendly … well , I think it 's mainly because they 're younger teachers … and there 's not such a great age gap , you know . |
21 | Oh yeah you did but you 've got each but they 're deeper ones so |
22 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
23 | Cause they were bigger bags and they were heavier she 's getting real problems |
24 | To take the example of the English parliaments , they were wider groups , summoned to approve taxation , not to discuss . |
25 | Save the money , well they were better things than what they get today . |
26 | If they were only acting , then they were better actors than I thought . |
27 | No matter how disturbingly accurate my visual memory may be , all-seeing is nowise all-hearing but suffice to say they were further indicators that the bridge over which I had crossed the abyss had been mined behind me . |
28 | In the rebuilding programme after the war we reduced the fleet to seven , but they were larger ships . |
29 | If they were smaller properties it is possible there would be some less traffic . |
30 | And they were younger listeners too . |