Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes for many months I was the only white person for hundreds of miles . |
| 2 | For six months I was the best customer the Porteneil Pet Shop had , going in every Saturday to get a couple of beasts , and about every month buying a tube of badminton shuttlecocks from the toyshop as well . |
| 3 | Thus to bring to all our attention how much it matters for the encouragement of arts , commerce and trade which er , for manufacturers which is the full title of the Royal Society of Arts . |
| 4 | ‘ Lovely ! ’ she would say as she cooked and ate it , with the little pursing of her lips and narrowing of her grey eyes which was the nearest she ever came to a smile or a laugh . |
| 5 | And then there 's the , the data integrity on units which is the fourteen we 've already made some er nominal provision for which is |
| 6 | Togliatti 's apparent cold indifference to the fate of his fellow countrymen shocked many and seemed likely to damage the electoral chances of the PDS and the PRC , the two parties which were the direct successors of the PCI . |
| 7 | With actors of the calibre of Gerard Kelly ( as Spanky ) , Andy Gray , Alexander Morton and Barbara Rafferty that was never likely , but what was less expected was the ability of the actors in the parts of the younger Slab Boys to rise to heights , to produce the casual , offhand , muscular performances which are the ideal foil for the more reflective playing of their older selves . |
| 8 | Pages were put together by gathering the material up and roughing it into a layout based round the principal hooks — the headlines and pictures which were the only things that really mattered . |
| 9 | The aim of the United Peace Alliance was deliberately broad , ignoring most of the social and economic demands which were the central feature of all previous " Unity " campaigns . |
| 10 | The publisher Grant Richards encouraged her to turn to novel writing , and between 1907 and 1916 she produced six books which are the perfect expression of her personality : frivolous and witty , but with an underlying sense of melancholy . |
| 11 | Erm one of the things that er would be nice to end up with is a price on the books which is the higher price . |
| 12 | Besides , if I close my eyes you are the handsomest of men ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ By 6pm Mrs Kinnock was sitting under the table assisting at least two journalists who were the worse for wear to place calls to London on their mobile phones . ’ |
| 14 | But the musical message will also be heard by half a million kids who are the unlucky ones . |
| 15 | With our experience of furnishing family homes we are the first to agree that no two will be alike . |
| 16 | It is clear that among the more prosperous merchants in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was the first beginning of a tendency towards specialization , in types of goods carried and markets exploited ; but growing trade , freer movements of peoples , no doubt enhanced the number of folk who could earn a few pennies peddling or carting . |
| 17 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 18 | Laboratory experiments comparing " dreamers " with " non-dreamers " have shown that there is little difference between these groups in their EEG/EOG patterns while asleep.3,4 In all subjects there was the same orderly sequence of sleep stages , with REM sleep periods recurring at about 90-minute intervals throughout the night . |
| 19 | Winners They were the clever deal makers with an impeccable and infallible sense of timing |
| 20 | In herbivores it is the larvated egg which is passed out in the faeces but in other animals it is the hatched L1 . |
| 21 | But I have no doubts it was the right move for Newcastle and the right move for Mick . |
| 22 | We were in bed — probably the worst place , but when you 've got three kids it 's the only place you can talk . |
| 23 | The next time I open my eyes it is the following day . |
| 24 | In my eyes it 's the hardest hole on the course . |
| 25 | The infant was at once created Prince of Wales , to indicate that in Jacobite eyes he was the real heir to the throne of England , and the Young Pretender was soon to become universally known as Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 26 | If we are above government guidelines it is the labour party 's fault and if indeed we are penalised in the future it is the labour party 's fault , none other and to the extent that you run the risk now by having this excess eleven percent budget over the er standing expenditure assessment er will once again unfortunately find you guilty in that regard . |
| 27 | The company where it once held over 20% of the equity , and its current desktop partner — as analyst Hesh Wiener comments , in mythology , the gods eat their children , in computers it 's the other way round . |
| 28 | This relationship is n't just common to product relationships it 's the same in cost revenue relationships as well Okay , so so what that diagram is saying in symbolic terms is that if the slope of the ideal product of labour curve , right , if D L P D A P L by D L positive , then the marginal product of labour must be greater than the average product of labour . |
| 29 | But in his tax speeches he is the earnest bank manager , unable to speak succinctly and dramatically , to grip people who do not have his bean-counter Treasury mind . |
| 30 | At three months it is the weakest of the womb , that is li that is for everyone , if anybody 's got a weak inside well they 's lose it , they 's be liable to lose it more than anybody else with out taking anything . |