Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because a commitment to representative government and loyalty to democratic institutions are themselves fundamental constituents of our collective political morality . |
| 2 | This is not a marsupial , but a member of the group of egg-laying mammals , the monotremes , so remote from us that marsupials are our close cousins by comparison . |
| 3 | ‘ And my reasons are my own affair . ’ |
| 4 | The waste and boredom typified by my early schooldays are what liberal educationalists have aimed to eradicate . |
| 5 | The organisers of the pools believe that huge jackpots are their best weapon in fighting the threat posed by a national lottery . |
| 6 | Land birds are constantly visiting the ship and the pretty Stormy Petrels are our constant companions while the ocean itself contains an abundance to amuse and gratify one . |
| 7 | Well , I do n't know if tubular bells are what most music shops carry standard . |
| 8 | But the fact that dominant classes can throw off liberal democracy when they do not wish to abide by the rules does not prove that those rules are themselves capitalist instruments . |
| 9 | Relatively small head and less well marked facial disc than other owls are its best field marks , together with distinctive habit of flicking tail . |
| 10 | The soaps are our modern myths , hyped up versions of morality tales subtly conveying their own standards ’ — Dr John Habgood , Archbishop of York . |
| 11 | Great halls are his dim playgrounds : his fields are quadrangles : his trees are pillars ( 4 ) . |
| 12 | Great halls are his dim playgrounds : his fields Are quadrangles : his trees are pillars . |
| 13 | Mondays and Thursdays are my regular nights . |
| 14 | She met me in London wearing a wide-brimmed hat , khaki shorts and a loose white top ; she says she loves showing off , feels her legs are her best feature and that short skirts suit her . |
| 15 | ‘ I know Kettering reads , of course , ’ Signor Fixit said , ‘ but pictures are his great love . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Surely my personal relationships are my own affair , ’ she countered lightly . |
| 17 | His best-remembered books are his Scots novels : — The Ayrshire Legatees — the story of an Ayrshire Minister and his family in London ; The Annals of the Parish and The Provost — novels depicting social life in 18th century Ayrshire ; The Entail ; Sir Andrew Wylie ; and Lawrie Todd . |
| 18 | Companies House raised no objections ; the first two words were his own name and the other two words of the title described his business . |
| 19 | Soon afterwards , he commenced practice as a conveyancer , one of his clients being his old teacher , Dr. Watson . |
| 20 | For the ‘ highly-sexy ’ pictures were her first inkling that her lover Woody Allen was having an affair with the 21-year-old beauty . |
| 21 | This led them into feeling that airlines and motor car manufacturers were their main competitors since they took passengers away . |
| 22 | Gary was the only cheerful member of their party , the swimming baths being his familiar habitat . |
| 23 | Languages and artistic subjects were her main interests and , showing an early talent for drawing and painting , she became in 1864 the pupil of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | She was all pale green and chestnut , with an emerald blaze at her throat ; I roamed her face , from the bursting curve of her forehead to the plum-dent of her chin ; her cheeks , so often pallid , were brushed with the pink of a Tiepolo dawn , though whether the brush was external and garaged in her handbag or internal and wielded by ecstasy , I was unable or unwilling to guess ; her mouth was besieged by a half-smile which seemed to last and last ; her eyes were her lustrous dowry . |
| 25 | His attitude , part shame , part protectiveness , was the attitude of a parent towards a loved , crippled child : Marjorie 's miseries were his private affair , he preferred others to treat her as absolutely normal . |
| 26 | It 's such a shame , as the Olympics were his main aim , ’ said Degnan . |
| 27 | As for the Copernican system in America , it has been observed that the New England clergy were its principal propagators . |
| 28 | My main supporters were my former PPSs , Michael Jopling and Barney Hayhoe , the former retiring to bed with ‘ flu for the rest of the week between the two ballots . |
| 29 | He was tearing Germany apart and already preparing for war , the Jews being his first victims . |
| 30 | Although he wrote chamber and orchestral music , songs were his true vocation . |