Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , when I got on the scales I 'm ten stone three . |
| 2 | I weighed 10 stone before I was nine months old ; by 14 months I was 15 stone and six feet tall standing on my back legs . |
| 3 | Oh James no James you want some listeners I 'm sorry love . |
| 4 | If you 're looking at triangles you 're first thing you 're looking at is has it got a right angle ? |
| 5 | By virtue of socialization in the ‘ best ’ private schools they are assured access to the approved universities which stamp them as potential cadres of the ruling class ( Kellner and Crowther-Hunt , 1980 ) . |
| 6 | For many centuries it was common form for a bishop to address a presbyter as ‘ fellow-presbyter ’ . |
| 7 | Of course any rod bag will do but with the price of some of today 's rods it is false economy to make do . |
| 8 | For Seldes it was contemporary drama that had been to blame , for it had encouraged the young movie industry to take ‘ the slice of life ’ as its subject-matter . |
| 9 | So developed did the cult of personality in Northern Nigeria become that even in dealing with rude and warlike pagans it was bad form to stoop to securing their acquiescence in the will of the government by resort to force . |
| 10 | Controversy follows the rugby men around of course , but for the fans it 's carnival time , while the international team wait for England . |
| 11 | TD lorries shift everything from fish fingers to boxes of tissues and when goods do n't move in the shops it 's bad news for truckers . |
| 12 | Well we 've heard what Edward has had to say and the local communities I 'm certain draw great comfort from that and we wait and see whether Brussels will exercise its powers , quite legitimately in my view , and and call this in . |
| 13 | Yeah , so course she said with the girls shoes they 're slimmer look . |
| 14 | It was the first time in two decades that a British bike was beating the Japanese and for British biking enthusiasts it was stirring stuff . |
| 15 | For much of the past two decades it was Square City , the quaint , eccentric and often decidedly sick man of rock . |
| 16 | I do n't know whether other newly married men feel the same , but in those early days I was aware ofa calm satisfaction and fulfilment . |
| 17 | ‘ I always felt partial ownership of the business throughout the 16 years I was managing director , ’ he says . |
| 18 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 19 | The only thing see is that it 's all my own tapes they 're such crap ones and like they just sound really bad when they 're recorded on . |
| 20 | integrating cos squared just to get to that stage they had thousands of years they were full time professionals did nothing else but it . |
| 21 | ‘ The trial shows that by careful choice and timing of cultivations and herbicide applications it is possible blackgrass control even in areas where the yield-robbing weed is out of control , ’ explains Ciba-Geigy 's Andy Pigott . |
| 22 | When preparing statistics on guest spending power , room sales and length of stay of guests it is common practice to use averages . |
| 23 | In the next few days he was busy making size , painting signs and colouring the room and ‘ hooking . ’ |
| 24 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 25 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 26 | In research into effective managers it is this background theme which correlates positively with success , not the recognition theme . |
| 27 | Operating in sections it 's corporals and below who if they are to encoutner problems it 's those sort of ranks who 'll have to fix it . |
| 28 | Because of these problems it was some time before satisfactory reporting procedures were developed . |
| 29 | In windy conditions it is excellent practice in controlling the model even for the very experienced flyer . |
| 30 | No problem arose so far as NHS general practitioners were concerned , except a very powerful dispute about the level of the compensation of junior doctors ; but with the consultants it was another story . |