Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [am/are] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delacroix , Turner , Isabey and Prout are all here , as are less familiar landscape and genre painters like Paul Huet and Eugene Lami . |
| 2 | Alba Adriatica , Silvi Marina and Giulianova are three well established holiday resorts set along beaches of fine , golden sand . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ Michael and Frances are two very strong and different personalities and they clashed . ’ |
| 4 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 5 | There are many topographical names which have lasted down to the present in a perfectly straightforward fashion ( the articles or toponymical qualifiers being dropped ) , such as Field , Bridge , Ford , Green , Lake , Lane , Orchard , Townsend , Gate and so on , but others are less obvious in their modern guises — Atwell and Attwood , Byfield and Byway are clear enough as examples in which the definite article has become assimilated , but others like Boveton = above town , and Binetheton — below town , are not so obvious at first sight , neither are Biart — dweller near the enclosure , Stanners = dweller at the stone house , or Leese = dweller by the pasture . |
| 6 | The leaders , after Alcyone , are Atlas ( 3.6 ) , Electra ( 3.7 ) , Maia ( 3.9 ) , Merope ( 4.2 ) , Taygete ( 4.3 ) , Pleione ( 5.1 , but rather variable ) , Celæno ( 5.4 ) and Asterope ( 5.6 ) ; Atlas and Pleione are close together , but × 7 will separate them easily . |
| 7 | Allen and McNab are fit again , but will be restricted to the bench by City , who will not change the team that has scored 12 in winning their last three games . |
| 8 | America , Canada , Britain and Sweden are all now expected to see a fall in economic output this year ; America 's GNP is forecast to shrink by 0.4% . |
| 9 | Drosera rotundifolia and Myrica are preferential here , although the latter is often absent . |
| 10 | Such names as Mercer , Shepherd , Painter , Wainwright , Fowler , Weaver , Miller , Carpenter , Slater , Cooper and Hooper are common enough , but there are many more surnames of occupation than modern spellings or general knowledge reveal . |
| 11 | Sankoff and Laberge are interested principally in the alternation between on on the one hand , and tu/vous on the other in their function as indefinite personal pronouns ( cf. 7.4.3 ) . |
| 12 | A succession of recent graduates from the Medau Schule came to England ‘ au pair ’ ( backed up by English leaders until their work permits were valid ) , and joined Molly to teach and demonstrate — Christa , Usch , Elke , Ingrid , Maric , and Toxi are all fondly remembered . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , Boz and Alamena are married now , so I suppose your wedding to Nahum is still on too ? ’ |
| 14 | Speed and Wallace are versatile enough to move around mid-field/upfront/wings to accomodate this whoever goes off . |
| 15 | Southern England , the Netherlands and the northern coasts of Germany and France are all now rated as high-risk areas by insurance companies , with global warming blamed for an increase in the frequency and severity of storms . |
| 16 | Of the many castles and stately homes to visit , Chiddingstone , Hever Castle , Penshurst Place , and Hatchlands are all fairly local . |
| 17 | Britain and America are worried enough to have produced enough serum to immunise their troops against anthrax , one of the biological agents he is most likely to have . |
| 18 | Plymouth , Exeter and Torquay are all easily reached for day trips . |
| 19 | Bus stations at Wakefield and Castleford are each about 1km from the navigation . |
| 20 | Dorigo and Sharp are good enough to cover the left back slot . |
| 21 | There 's an equally wide selection of spreadsheet , database and word processing formats supported : 25 word processors ( including Word and WordPerfect ) , 13 spreadsheets ( including 1-2-3 and Excel ) and 13 databases ( dBase , Paradox and FoxBase are all there ) . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's a Sagittarius , and Sagittarius and Gemini are good together . ’ |
| 23 | In Chapters 1 and 2 we argue , however , that while the sociologies of the Chicago School , Goffman and Harré are all highly suggestive , they also tend to overlook some of the deeper social structures and processes in which individuals and small groups of people are necessarily caught up . |
| 24 | The peaks of Ingleborough and Whernside are prominent southwards , and Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat in the Pennines eastwards , but the gem of the panorama is the serrated skyline of the Lakeland fells overtopping the Howgills and forming an exciting western horizon . |
| 25 | But England are 11 behind , Scotland 13 adrift and Ireland 19 back . |