Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only occupy 2% of the total agricultural area however , and a large number of them are part-time or retirement farms and constitute no great economic problem whilst many , particularly in southern France , are quite intensive and may provide reasonable family incomes . |
| 2 | All of them are avoidable and cost time and money . |
| 3 | A clue may be found in the geology of those islands , for some of them are granitic and part of the Gondwanaland , which linked India and Africa when they were adjacent . |
| 4 | I am dark and light . |
| 5 | Would I be tough and wise-cracking at the end , or would they have to drag me screaming through the last door like a jelly-livered rat ? |
| 6 | Environmentalists have supported the miners against Pittston strip-mining and long-wall techniques , and I was given a badge which proclaimed ‘ I 'm Pro-Union and Pro-Choice ’ , linking the strike with the most inflammable issue in US politics today , abortion rights . |
| 7 | Sometimes I 'm really embarrassed about eating in front of people , in case they think I 'm greedy or fat . |
| 8 | She went on : ‘ I 'll make another guess and you can tell me whether I 'm right or way off target . |
| 9 | ‘ Instead of which suddenly I 'm fifty-two and mother is n't there any more . |
| 10 | I 'm neurotic and shit — I 'm Jewish . |
| 11 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |
| 12 | ‘ When I was 16 and modelling , I got very interested because I used to see a lot of Geminis and Libras who had a lot in common , ’ says Teri . |
| 13 | ‘ But I was drunk and stuff . ’ |
| 14 | We had to go in there several times when I was little and mother was sick , and they 'd never let us stay together , so anything could have happened . ’ |
| 15 | As noted above , the simple division of hazards is between those which are natural and those which are technological or human-induced . |
| 16 | The round or almost oval rootstock or corm produces a plant with narrow , long , almost arrow-shaped leaves , which are green or greenish-red on the upper surface and dull green on the undersides . |
| 17 | The key to finding a good paper is to look for those which are acid-free and firm enough to withstand your own drawing technique . |
| 18 | Lack of income was affecting investment , particularly in buildings which were old-fashioned and labour intensive . |
| 19 | It was so special , and I would have special party shoes which were gold or silver . |
| 20 | Finally , she lists the intellectual pursuit model , which is self-directed and self-motivated by intellectual curiosity . |
| 21 | Examples of Chardonnay from the New World tend to be more opulent , such as Rosemount 's Show Reserve Chardonnay , which is ripe and buttery , with full tropical fruit flavours . |
| 22 | Thirdly , at a higher level still , we can see the dynamic between thought which is rule-governed and thought which is far less bounded where different forms of reason collide . |
| 23 | The techniques for eliciting and extending children 's ideas which I have described will not be entirely successful unless the teacher adopts a role which is supportive and non-threatening . |
| 24 | But if this new development were to be simply an aid to better assignments and projects then it would not be remarkable , because library instruction which is project-related and project-inspired , is not unusual , though it is less common than the separate library lesson . |
| 25 | Alkalis commonly used range from mild materials such as sodium carbonate ( washing soda or soda ash ) to sodium metasilicate which is stronger and sodium hydroxide ( caustic soda ) and potassium hydroxide ( caustic potash ) . |
| 26 | The third collection came from one of the southern subspecies of European eagle owl , which is smaller and lighter in colour than the northern populations . |
| 27 | It will be a neo-Fordist world in which the priorities of the Fordist era will determine the way in which new information technologies are utilised — a world in which the priorities are military spending and private consumption , and which is energy- and transport intensive . |
| 28 | One of the disconcerting features of New Historicist accounts is that a recognition of critical partially and a mapping out of the historicity of texts through the textuality of history does not produce a critical manner which is careful and self-scrutinising . |
| 29 | The word is usually used in the New Testament of internal reasoning which is wrong or evil . |
| 30 | A diet which is bizarre or extreme may bring about weight loss if strictly adhered to but , as the brain draws on its reserves to make up for the deficiency in vital nutrients , the dieter is likely to become edgy , easily upset and to experience difficulty in making decisions . |