Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The things they like about me are my gai-jin attitudes , and they laugh at a lot of my conclusions , I 'm sure — not to my face , but among themselves . |
| 2 | In this account the world is seen as one where individual countries are completely subordinate to the general world system , in contrast to an international economy being created by the interplay of different countries which are themselves prime actors . |
| 3 | So which are they easy ones ? |
| 4 | Certainly in the work that the Greater York er authorities did in preparing their proposals over the past er four or five years , er we have worked fairly closely with what was then the Yorkshire Water Authority and National Rivers Authorities on the questions of drainage erm and so forth which are our major problems around York . |
| 5 | You see I am very careful in settling the Chronology of his Poems ; such a Genius is a Curiosity ; and one wou 'd willingly know which are his first Productions . |
| 6 | A Commission under Governor Kerner of Illinois placed the blame squarely on white racism and on the social and economic inequalities which were its direct results . |
| 7 | Although Anne had always read voraciously it had been novels and poetry , or volumes of letters and diaries which were her particular favourites . |
| 8 | Nor are evolutionary processes progressive or purposive ; the primitive single-celled creatures which were our early forebears were not possessed of a burning imperative , or driven by a mystic higher force , to evolve into sentient humans . |
| 9 | We walked through the gloomy , echoing streets to the pub , past turdy parks , past the Victorian school with outside toilets , past the numerous bomb-sites which were our true playgrounds and sexual schools , and past the neat gardens and scores of front rooms containing familiar strangers and televisions shining like dying lights . |
| 10 | Which were my best subjects at school ? |
| 11 | And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet . |
| 12 | And I think that the revolution in history which has taken place over the course of the last twenty-five years has been a revolution which has been fuelled by people 's curiosity to study things which previously had not been studied , rather than just to take some formal statement of what seemed to be important , which is what the chroniclers took , or some propaganda statement , which is what the Tudors took and what the seventeenth century historians took , or indeed to write very academic history , which is what professional historians have tended to do , over the course of the last erm forty or fifty years . |
| 13 | ‘ We simply applied rule one , which is what most players are interested in — whether or not they are playing . ’ |
| 14 | By staying decentralised , and by starting most new magazines cheaply in-house , rather than by acquiring them , which is what most publishers do if they want to grow quickly . |
| 15 | This is why many women see no wrong in abortion on demand — which is what most politicians abhor . |
| 16 | Which is what most courses are n't they ? |
| 17 | This is not needed merely to run the factories properly — which is what foreign managers ' present jobs mainly amount to . |
| 18 | Though this sounds cumbersome by comparison with modern computer graphics ( which is what these effects appear to resemble today ) , it was also quite flexible . |
| 19 | Now I 'm quite happy to argue we 're twice as good as the Japanese , but I 'm not prepared to claim we 're four times as good , which is what these figures suggest . |
| 20 | Washing a potato is only a small development from brushing earth off it , which is something all macaques do anyway ; but the separation of sand from wheat required Imo to throw away the food after she had picked it up , and then wait for the sand to sink , before she collected her food up again . |
| 21 | Hornbills are big and demanding birds that need plenty of space , which is something most zoos do n't have . |
| 22 | At around 4 pm on Wednesday 10 June 1719 he found the invaders barring his way at Glenshiel [ or Glen Sheil ] , between Loch Cluanie and the head of Loch Duich , about 21 miles [ 34 km ] north-west of Invergarry , which is itself 35 miles [ 56 km ] south-west of Inverness . |
| 23 | Only just into three figures , which was nothing these days , and in any case the money could n't have been important . |
| 24 | Alice took off the cotton dress which was what young mothers wore in Chelmsford to shop in , put on jeans and a black T-shirt , the kind of clothes she would always wear now , through an indefinitely stretching future . |
| 25 | They 're not viable for women who are their own breadwinners . |
| 26 | Adrian become–the over-protective parent to his miserable father and although we can understand how this behaviour comes about in a child whose parents are asserting their own needs , who are themselves needy children , it nevertheless feels funny , feels inappropriate . |
| 27 | Who are our closest troops ? ’ |
| 28 | When Johnson enquired the cause of the difference , Sir Alexander claimed that there was ‘ more occasion for them in war ’ , but Professor Thomas Gordon ( no relation , Boswell ? ) said , ‘ Because the Germans , who are our great rivals in the manufacture of stockings , are otherwise employed in time of war . ’ |
| 29 | As you can imagine there were a lot of champagne bottles opened that night , but perhaps the most pleasurable glass of all came the next morning from the bottle in Peter Wycherley 's office at the headquarters of Dunlop Slazenger who are my main sponsors . |
| 30 | who are your main competitors ; |