Example sentences of "[prep] be [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , although what they are testing other people for are their own conventions , their own work does not necessarily provide evidence of them in practice . |
| 2 | He got away with being what many others could only secretly aspire to be . |
| 3 | I mean the heels have got ta be what two inches ? |
| 4 | I think its very difficult to be yourself these days because you , you see so many magazines with beautiful people in and you think that 's how I want to look and its , its a sort of , pressure thing all the time |
| 5 | Moreover , members of other cultures are understood to be themselves active participants in such model building and so their social and linguistic ‘ grammars ’ have to be taken into account also . |
| 6 | All first-class advocates concentrate on what they consider to be their good points ; they do not run the risk of alienating the judge 's affections by producing obviously bad ones . |
| 7 | Sonar , hearing , vision , touch and taste seem to be their major senses . |
| 8 | For example , over a season , six species of Shorea are visited in turn by species of thrips , which are believed to be their major pollinators . |
| 9 | Pieces were collected and laid out in what was thought to be their correct positions . |
| 10 | The essential function of the Masai was to provide the perfect opportunity for the British to display what they believed to be their finest characteristics as a ruling race : the ability to understand and to gain the respect of proud traditional peoples , the self-discipline to treat them with courtesy , and the moral authority to guide and control them without resort to brute force . |
| 11 | One , one of the most common question of the last weeks are we yes last weeks Sunday visiting that I was involved with in my ward was from people who were perturbed , not about means testing because that is not the word that it was about , but about something that is on the same kind of sphere and that was about whether erm East Gates which decided to be their own managers would also be able to their own tenants and keep the ones that were less suitable away from the ones that knew that they were suitable . |
| 12 | But most men of her acquaintance were in uniform now , and having the time of their lives , she should n't wonder , with girls young enough to be their own daughters . |
| 13 | ON THE ROAD : Trained Amtrak franchise holders ready to be their own bosses |
| 14 | Women enter into a form of covert contract with themselves to be their own bosses , judges and reward-givers . |
| 15 | The following were recently noted to be its complete contents |
| 16 | The society 's board of trustees is hoping that at least part of the funds it needs by June will come from government sources : in response to a stampede of scholars from around the world who invaded the library in what were to be its final days last month , local government provided an emergency $66,000 to keep the library open until 2 April . |
| 17 | A legislature may quite conceivably , by oversight or even design , exceed what an international tribunal ( if such existed ) might hold to be its international rights . |
| 18 | Let us call to mind the ‘ representative firm ’ , whose economies of production , internal and external , are dependent on the aggregate volume of production of the commodity that it makes ; and , postponing all further study of the nature of this dependence , let us assume that the normal supply price of any amount of that commodity may be taken to be its normal expenses of production ( including gross earnings of managements ) by that firm . |
| 19 | However , in emphasising the specifically capitalist form of the latter division , both Marx and Braverman exaggerate what they take to be its essential features : rationality and authoritarianism . |
| 20 | It has served its country dutifully for over 30 years and we are delighted to be its new custodians . ’ |
| 21 | When the American train , the ‘ De Witt Clinton ’ , clattered along the rails in 1831 the good citizens of Albany , proud to be its first passengers , were showered with burning embers from the tall funnel of the locomotive . |
| 22 | Night , Darkness , Mystery and Eternity seemed to be her only companions . |
| 23 | Louise said , still pounding away at what she considered to be her fat legs . |
| 24 | She went her own way , made her own successes and failures , and cared for no opinion but her own , apart from that of people she knew to be her intellectual equals or superiors . |
| 25 | In the final analysis , what is on offer has to be what older customers want . |
| 26 | They are not the high expression of a society and its order ; they seem intended , though newly built , to be what older houses had become — a nostalgic , retrospective vision , a painting in brick or stone . |
| 27 | In contrast , the gigantic photographic images depicting what the curator Jeffrey Deitch has called our Strange Developments act to bludgeon what is assumed to be our jaded sensibilities , but more obviously demonstrate the burn out of a certain faction of the mid Atlantic artworld , curators and buyers . |
| 28 | We have to contribute to a cleaner world by preventing the pollution of our own water and air , and by conserving the beauty of our countryside — whose main custodians continue to be our efficient farmers . |
| 29 | Mr Kinnock hoped a Labour government would be so successful ‘ as to diminish the support for several parties who do n't happen to be our political allies and are unlikely to become so . ’ |
| 30 | There seem to be our two groups er , in one of our provinces and they say that the rich and poor but the rich er er are not so rich and others . |