Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plot of ‘ Great Expectations ’ is a very concentrated one , where everything and everyone are linked in the same plot . |
| 2 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 3 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 4 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
| 5 | The most important union for farm workers in England is the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers ( NUAAW ) which has a membership of approximately 90000 , three-quarters of whom are employed on the land . |
| 6 | This story runs parallel with that of a bank robbery which is being planned for 14th July by a group of petty criminals , some of whom are employed on the building site for the new hotel . |
| 7 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 8 | In some cases , certainly , it is the result of a free choice on the part of individuals , most of whom are concentrated in the higher social classes where financial security , other than through earned income , is common . |
| 9 | This applies especially to the life of the more affluent , most of whom are concentrated in the advanced societies . |
| 10 | Two novels of the 1720s point the contrast in public attitudes to the American colonies of the two countries in an odd way : the Abbé Prévost 's Manon Lescaut and Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders are about prostitutes , both of whom are transported to the new world , but Manon dies from exposure in the arms of her faithful des Grieux after walking six miles from New Orleans , while Moll Flanders settles down with her fifth husband to reckon her net worth in cash and tobacco before returning from Virginia to London . |
| 11 | Hewlett Packard and Apricot , both of whom are going with the Aldus/Microsoft package , are rather more conservative and reckon perhaps 15 to 20 each . |
| 12 | Think of the many hours when the two of them are closeted in the den . |
| 13 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 14 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 15 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 16 | One of the issues that arises concerning the inhabitants of squatter settlements is integration into city life , since many of them are migrants and all of them are living in an area which is peripheral , in terms of city services and location . |
| 17 | Most of them are listed under the provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1990 , but restrictions imposed by the Act will not come into force until 1995 . |
| 18 | Her materials consist of marble dust , gypsum cement , resins and rhoplex , but the ways in which she works with them are based on a kind of body language , using gestures that are related to her subject matter . |
| 19 | I mean some of them are built in the roof . |
| 20 | We have all inherited personal preferences in one shape or form by a variety of different roots ; some of those origins are clear , others of them are lost in the entanglements of time and circumstance . |
| 21 | Obviously , when there is some snow on the hills in the summer you ca n't do much , so they are very carefully made and some of them are connected to a computer , so if you have a very good coach with you he can say ‘ You 're going that right , no do it a bit more like this , or a bit more like that ’ . |
| 22 | Foreign Minister Levi told the Knesset ( parliament ) on March 18 : " Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them are destined for a painful punishment . |
| 23 | Wind sites must be placed where the wind blows fairly constantly , most of them are situated around the coast . |
| 24 | He now shares his flat with sixty spiders and , as Erika Barnes reports , some of them are kept in the most unusual of places . |
| 25 | Most of them are sticking to a policy , adopted during the Falklands war , of not stocking war games until the war is over . |
| 26 | Descendants of the nomadic ‘ hordes ’ of Central Asia , many of them are related to the minority peoples of the Soviet Union , whom they closely resemble . |
| 27 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 28 | Excuse me , can I finish , er many of them are chained to the parent 's legs while they 're collected for these people then to bring to a circus , traumatized and chained to the ground for life . |
| 29 | Terminals that are connected to them are switched via the MD110 and other data traffic is directed via the Broadband Modules . |
| 30 | The identity booklet ( or key card ) together with any messages or letters that may be waiting for them are handed to the guest . |