Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | and only seventeen of them are full time . |
| 32 | none of them are full thoroughbred , they are all ⅞thbred so therefore a bit hardier . |
| 33 | Our team of judges — the majority of them are National Vegetable Society judges — report that competition standards are up . |
| 34 | That the work of many of them is first class is without question , but it is an achievement against great odds . |
| 35 | ‘ In the best romantic tradition , the most important thing for both of them is each other . |
| 36 | Your views on which of them is right will , of course , be coloured by your own religious beliefs . |
| 37 | One of them is that expertise conveys the ability to help with public decision making . |
| 38 | One of them , this is not the first in the but one of them is that democracy may well throw up unworthy rulers . |
| 39 | There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex . |
| 40 | The most obvious example of them is third person pronouns ( she/her/hers/herself ; he/him/his/himself ; it/its/itself ; they/them/their/ theirs/themselves ) . |
| 41 | Some of our best writers are on the staff of the magazine , and one of them is Associate Editor Anne Boston . |
| 42 | Setting intermediate goals and providing an assessment of them is another way that feedback can help the student adjust her learning . |
| 43 | A good deal of the care of them is common sense , but it is extraordinary what an uncommon quality that is when it comes to books . |
| 44 | Most of them were above Ace and Defries , fluttering round the diagonal girder along which Daak was trying to climb . |
| 45 | A third of the authors were women , while in terms of their childhood backgrounds , 25 of them were upper class , 21 upper-middle class , 15 lower-middle class , and 84 working class . |
| 46 | Some of them were floating milk calculi , others tiny pedunculated tumours , injuries to the teat lining , all sorts of things . |
| 47 | Most of them were growing food or timber in 1880 , although not all of them were as productive as they were later to become . |
| 48 | Many of them were more animal than human . |
| 49 | Some of the girls were bitchy , some of them were National Front , some of them were skinheads , but you knew who to mix with and who not to mix with . |
| 50 | You know , six foot high , one of them was six foot wide . |
| 51 | One of them was British director John Dexter , who was casting Peter Shaffer 's The Royal Hunt of the Sun , to be performed at ANTA in October 1965 . |
| 52 | One of them was local farmer Barry Colman . |
| 53 | This twin of yours is pure fiction , but I do think you know who Garry 's new love is . |
| 54 | ‘ If that gelding of yours is any good , I 'll put my hand in my pocket for him for Dolly . |
| 55 | More recently this notion has been systematized into the various forms of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy , the most popular of which are Cognitive Therapy ( Beck et al . , |
| 56 | The joint venture has five blocks under licence , covering two sedimentary basins , both of which are proven hydrocarbon provinces . |
| 57 | All sorts of other strange and inexplicable manmade features have been recognised , the most exciting of which are pre-woodland settlement , field and burial sites which have been engulfed by the trees . |
| 58 | There has been a steady growth in the newer area of sales to retail outlets , some of which are supermarkets but many of which are traditional grocery shops . |
| 59 | When the disease affects one of the occipito atlantoaxial articulations ( termed lateral mass ) it may produce the syndrome of non-reducible rotational tilt of the head , the main clinical features of which are occipital pain , tender points in the neck , and tilting of the head toward the affected side . |
| 60 | What we 're looking at is the movement of children and maternity care both of which are high risk . |