Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I can say only that when I was at Bletchley the belief among my associates was that information had been received and that Ultra did not fail ; the intelligence it provided could not be fully acted upon for fear of betraying Ultra itself . |
2 | After all , most of my contemporaries were ex-grammar school , and at the other end of the scale dealt with the mysteries of each stage of calculus . |
3 | My eyes are another problem . |
4 | ‘ My subjects are basic communication ideas for congregations . |
5 | As the Sector Humanitarian Officer , one of my concerns is farming activity within the Buffer Zone . |
6 | My rescuers were three bully boys , swords and daggers stuck through their waists . |
7 | My trousers are dark navy — a dull but worthy colour ; rather like the trousers themselves . |
8 | My hands are real cold cos I lost my gloves and my fingers wo n't work proper — they 're all sort of numb . |
9 | My conclusions are that work which looks to family law as instrument is inadequate ; the ‘ school-rules concept ’ of law overlooks law 's part in representing and naturalizing ‘ the way things are ’ ; law 's self-denying ordinance in relation to the personal and the private is a cultural construct and not an inevitable element of ideas of law or justice . |
10 | When they were looking at Woolf , erm wh the other group 's a bit further on with Wolves than than you are but we were doing this morning about how Lily has difficulty painting her picture and erm Virginia Woolf says in her diary , I assure you all my novels are first rate before they were written . |
11 | ‘ Chaz wrote some great music , but my lyrics were just pony , man . |
12 | My colleagues were present sir and have informed me that the comment that I made is actually accurate . |
13 | Their ages were one month , one year , two yrs , five , seven , eight , ten , twelve and 13 years ’ . |
14 | This scheme was relatively modest in comparison with many others such as the £7million scheme , for which contracts were this year placed to resignal fifty-six route miles from Cambridge to Royston , Bishop 's Stortford , Fulbourne ( on the line to Newmarket ) and to a point just south of Ely . |
15 | Their masterpieces were witty birthday and leaving cards . |
16 | The last place to which she would have confided her secrets was this calendar diary . |
17 | The actions of such a council are of general public importance and the free discussion of their activities is one aspect of the right of freedom of expression which is of the utmost importance . |
18 | It is no accident that certain adjectives which can appear as postnominal , but not prenominal , attributives do also appear in predicative position , while , on the other hand , certain adjectives which only occur prenominally can not stand as predicatives : ( 33 ) the robber was asleep not noticing the robber asleep , they missed their revenge the asleep robber ( 34 ) their proposals are sheer lunacy their lunacy is sheer lunacy sheer of this sort is unsurprising |
19 | Its hooves were crayoned jet black and it looked oddly mischievous , slightly malicious . |
20 | Keeping the ‘ common people ’ of Romania down by always increasing the demands put upon them and diminishing their rewards was good policy as well as economically necessary if his ever-more ambitious plans were to be accomplished . |
21 | The accommodation local authorities have left on their lists is poorer-quality stock , and the finance to maintain repairs is limited . |
22 | Rover claim their cars are good value for money and have the option of being run on diesel , the cheaper alternative to petrol . |
23 | Whether the Princess of Wales will still sit on its cars is another question . |
24 | They stood in groups around the bed smiling and talking , joking gently as though their words were necessary medicine . |
25 | However , Stanley Baldwin , who was once the target of a harsh newspaper campaign , said of his ‘ press baron ’ opponents — ‘ Their methods are direct falsehood , misrepresentation , half-truths , the alteration of the speaker 's meaning by putting sentences apart from the context , suppression and editorial criticism of speeches which are not reported in the paper … |
26 | Their methods are direct falsehood , misrepresentation , half-truths , the alteration of the speaker 's meaning by publishing a sentence apart from the context … |
27 | They wore light-blue blazers and short gingham dresses , and their heads were very dose together . |
28 | Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets . |
29 | Its characteristics are personal acquisitiveness , set free by generous tax cuts for the rich and a licensed pursuit of the fast buck ; markets , including foreign exchange , left unfettered to bestow their dynamism on the economy ; a state rolled as far back as is electorally tenable ; and a participatory capitalism , based on profit rather than ownership , where almost anything is a commodity to be traded . |
30 | Her body was slight and flawlessly formed , her hair was a soft , golden cap , her skin was translucent , her features delicate and regular and her eyes were light green and shone like a summer field in the midday sun . |