Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Thee are excellent facilities for children , with a kindergarten and a kid 's playground in the Kurpark . |
2 | I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men . |
3 | It includes the major owners of the means of production , company directors , top managers , higher professionals and senior civil servants , many of whom are large shareholders in private industry . |
4 | A ring is an arrangement whereby several dealers all of whom are interested I in a given item agree not to compete in outbidding each other at the public auction but instead to allow one of their number to buy it as cheaply as possible . |
5 | Fruits and vegetables , even in their raw , unprocessed state , differ so much that you certainly ca n't say that all of them are useful sources of fibre . |
6 | Among them are outstanding objects from the Olmec , Aztec and Maya civilisations including a turquoise Aztec mosaic mask in the form of two intertwined rattlesnakes , painted codices from pre-Hispanic times , among them the Codex Zouche , stone architectural fragments from Mayan sites and jades from the Olmec period . |
7 | The changes taking place are manifested in diverse forms , and have very different starting points , but underlying them are similar sets of questions and pressures . |
8 | They form an incomparably useful line on which to trace the gradual mastery of natural forms , and a few of them are great works of sculpture . |
9 | Remember , many of them are married men with families and jobs . |
10 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
11 | All of them are potential sources of trouble for a beginner in Word . |
12 | And too many of them are deliberate re-runs of those seen in the aforementioned film . |
13 | Among them are three paintings by Paul Klee : ‘ Full Moon ’ ( 1919 ) , ‘ Nocturnal Plants Growing ’ ( 1922 ) and ‘ Garden with Birds ’ ( 1929 ) ; two by Max Beckmann : ‘ Woman with a Mandolin ’ ( 1950 ) and ‘ Winter Landscape ’ ( 1934 ) ; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 's ‘ Mardersteig Brothers ’ ( 1922 ) ; Emil Nolde 's ‘ Girls in their party dresses ’ ( 1918 ) ; Alexei von Jawlensky 's ‘ Mediterranean Coast ’ ( 1907 ) and Ludwig Meidner 's ‘ Suicide ’ ( 1912 ) . |
14 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
15 | Marion and I are living day by day . |
16 | Your father and I are worried sick about you . |
17 | And er as probably er you gathered Stan and I are both ex-policemen in relation to erm to er our our background and er I think I said yesterday to the er some of the guys as well , one of the things that lorry drivers and policemen do have very much in common is that we have pr probably one the shortest erm pension lives of most professions . |
18 | After all , I am 75 years of age , a father of four children , and to boot a grandfather of three delightful kids . |
19 | I am great fan of tennis , especially women 's tennis and a couple of weeks ago I went down to Brighton to the semi-final matches of the Midland Bank Indoor Championships . |
20 | Sat 25 11.00am NFT1 Waller 's Last Walk Christian Wagner 's elegiac treatment of an eldery railway inspector 's life ; 10.45am NFT2 In Fading Light Gripping docu-drama on the dying North Shields fishing industry ; 11.00am Curzon West End Romuald and Juliette Coline Serreau 's comedy about an affair between an exec and his black cleaner ; 11.00am Screen on Green Island Paul Cox 's elegant three-hander ; 2.15 NFT1 Guardian/AIP Seminar ; 1.15 NFT2 Martha Jellneck Kai Wessell 's story of an old woman 's relationship with her meals-on-wheels deliverer ; 3.15 NFT2 I Am Living Portrait of contemporary Indian women ; 4.30 NFT1 The Thief of Bagdad Restored version of Korda 's sumptuous Arabian Knights fantasy ; 5.45 NFT2 I Went to The Dance Documentary by Les Blank on the Cajun music of Louisiana ; 7.30 LFMC Programme 7 : Interior Monologues ; 9.00 NFT1 The Kill-Off Maggie Greenwald 's look at a sleazy East Coast seaside resort ; 8.30 NFT2 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Beeban Kidron 's interpretation of Jeanette Winterson 's autobiographical first novel , with Geraldine McEwan ; 8.45 MOMI Smoking Mirror Funereal British comedy , with Beatie Edney ; 11.15 Rio Chicken and Duck Talk See above . |
21 | ‘ I am frozen half to death — and all for a servant , if you please ! |
22 | I am Chief Warden of all the Marches . ’ |
23 | We have now added to these three levels a Joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication examination ( for which I am Chief Examiner for the Oxford and Cambridge and East Midland Regional Examination Boards ) . |
24 | I am sure others like me do not want to be part of this . |
25 | Even more explicit than My Secret Garden , ‘ women 's sexual fantasies ’ , which I am sure appeal as titillation rather than education . |
26 | I am 61 years of age and my only link with computers was a brief but satisfying fling with a Sinclair ZX81 some ten or eleven years ago ; it was , though , a 16K so I was upmarket ! |
27 | I am general secretary of a small road running club and I know I am not alone in thinking that the increase in regional affiliation fees for 1992 is excessive . |
28 | I am 44 years of age . |
29 | I would just like to say that I am 44 years of age , so art has no barriers . |
30 | Gentlemen , I would not for the world be judge in a cause in which I am one party among three . |