Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of satisfaction which can be anxiety-free is that in which my own creative powers and understanding of the world around me are at a maximum and this is satisfaction which the individual can only achieve as part of a community of persons directed at these ends . |
| 2 | She lived there with her family , some of whom are on a skiing holiday in Europe . |
| 3 | Prosecutor Dorian Lovell-Pank told the court : ‘ A group of people , not all of whom are in the dock , were engaged in the wholesale theft or handling of a vast amount of property . |
| 4 | Working on the template agreed with his fellow coaches , McGeechan and Douglas Morgan , Dixon has brought a dynamism to the driving mauls , mostly triggered from clean lineout ball , which had seemed largely beyond the Scottish Exiles — four of whom are in the pack — when they attempted to deploy that tactic during the inter-district championship . |
| 5 | ‘ There are lots of priests at Manchester United , ’ he said in typical Docherty style , ‘ and some of them are on the board . ’ |
| 6 | I think every , all the benefits should definitely be means tested , I know that most of them are to a degree . |
| 7 | Molecular evidence has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan . |
| 8 | Most of them are of the lancet type particularly associated with the commissioners ' buildings and many — for example , Christ Church , Meadow Lane , Leeds ( 1823–6 , demolished ) and Honley near Huddersfield ( 1842–3 ) — had thin arcade piers of cast iron ; but Chantrell was a serious student of Gothic . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of them are under the water and you ca n't see them . |
| 10 | Many factors affect the usage , and not all of them are under the control of the textile works . |
| 11 | Some of them are below the level you expect and below the standards we want to provide , ’ it says . |
| 12 | There 's no doubt if you analyze a lot of dreams , that an awful lot of them are as a matter of fact . |
| 13 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |
| 14 | It is disturbing to think any of them are in a position of influence in the education field since to a man they seem only capable of talking in cliche-riddled sentences or civil service speak . |
| 15 | Most of them are in no mood for another leadership contest and , in any case , there is no plausible challenger outside the Cabinet . |
| 16 | Most of them are in the name of Thomas Leavy , a cover identity originally provided by the CIA in 1982 and reinforced by the DIA in 1990 for Operation Shakespeare . |
| 17 | So that you may find that all the hesitations are by women , or most of them by women , or most of them are in the pub , or most of them are a after ten at night , or ar you know , you can look at the context in which certain words , certain conversational gambits that some of them use . |
| 18 | ‘ Most of them are in the south of England , which could , in the next 10 years , see the top teams coming from Chichester or Eastbourne , ’ Roberts said . |
| 19 | Many of them are in the south of England , in seats held by Conservative Members of Parliament . |
| 20 | Some of them are in the library . |
| 21 | Yet double , triple and even multiple stars are surprisingly common in space , and some of them are within the range of binoculars or even the naked eye . |
| 22 | Some of them are like a lot of old women . ’ |
| 23 | I been to the country once with Annie . |
| 24 | I been on a boat once with the school . |
| 25 | I been on a train with the school once — we went to the seaside and I cut my toe . |
| 26 | Had I been in a vehicle I could have gone back , but on foot it was not worth risking the wasted energy . |
| 27 | Never have I been in a place of such contrasts . |
| 28 | I been in the shower . |
| 29 | I been in the shower . |
| 30 | ‘ This day have I been in the library and it has been very interesting . |