Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 2 | The indifference of Limnititzkers to the great outdoors is well-known ; the only landscapes that interest them are the hills of a totally discorporeal Zion . |
| 3 | Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that . |
| 4 | It is interesting to discover which are the ants ' favourite foods . |
| 5 | It would exclude , on the other hand , those crucial processes of working and reworking which are the specifics , as distinct from the abstractable elements , of important art . |
| 6 | Well she may know who are the architects are anyway . |
| 7 | Employment and exposure records date from before the occurrence of leukaemia in the children , and the link to industry files was done by industry staff who did not know who were the parents of cases and who were the parents of controls . |
| 8 | We do not know who were the owners , nor what the objects meant to the owners . |
| 9 | Er what 's it say how glorious er what 's it say about good news er , the feet , how come we are the feet of those who |
| 10 | They say we are the turkeys but you better believe , We 'll be doing all the stuffing , In the Mid-Counties Combination League . |
| 11 | Our adverts say we 're the professionals , the experts , the specialists . |
| 12 | Alexei guessed that where the supports rose there were the foundations of the buildings above ground . |
| 13 | And , of course , when a crime was reported they were the ones who had to notify the Parquet in the first place . |
| 14 | But just a mile across the city , their rivals say they 're the originals . |
| 15 | ‘ If you must know it 's the men in the prison-ships who fire the gun . ’ |
| 16 | I expect it 's the petals and |
| 17 | But I expect it is the effects of expatriation . |
| 18 | Some say they should bring back hanging ; others say it is the politicians they should hang ; but most say there is nothing anybody can do at all . |
| 19 | ‘ They say it 's the Iraqis , but no one is going to lift a finger of complaint even , until the case is watertight . ’ |
| 20 | I think they say it 's the hills , do n't they , that er |
| 21 | Well things that they the actually say anything which is sort of a sign that you listening , understanding but if they delay it , it 's say it 's the women that pauses , wanting some sort of suddenly realizes |
| 22 | Indeed , industry observers say it was the swingers who gave birth to the home porn video in the early-Eighties . |
| 23 | He wanted to know what are the experiences and emotions of religious people . |
| 24 | We are investing millions in these technologies and we want to know what are the rules of the game before we take the risk of bringing a product to the marketplace . ’ |
| 25 | As the Army collapsed in turmoil on 11 February , the White House Situation Room put through several calls to the US ambassador in Teheran , William Sullivan saying that Zbigniew Brezinski wanted to know what were the chances of a coup d'etat . |
| 26 | His Chief of Staff ( Ops ) did not even seem to know what were the boundaries of the various corps under command ; there was no map of troop positions , and no one could state just what orders had been issued . |
| 27 | The aims of this research are to discover what are the attributes , qualities and skills of senior managers ( the competencies ) that contribute to the establishment and maintenance of high performing systems . |
| 28 | to discover what are the influences on girls when they make occupational choices , and |
| 29 | The wave orientation ( ie one which involves the cross selling of a product by mail on two or three dates only each year ) is based around defining which are the customers who best fit the profile of the target user ( ie the person who typically opens the credit account ) . |
| 30 | but it is normally only reserve storage and order picking which are the subjects of ‘ high-bay ’ design . |