Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
| 2 | Among them are a Russian Jew , who fled his native land after avenging the murder of his father , and the son of a poor Italian farmer . |
| 3 | So do n't forget the one thousand who do n't think any of them are a good team , add all those up and that will give you a fourth equation . |
| 4 | Revisited ’ has only got about 15 minutes of decent songs — and eight of them are a live version of The Velvet Underground 's ‘ What Goes On ? ’ which is n't psychedelic at all , really . |
| 5 | and course with that Ron on the , of course you know , he tells jokes and some of them are a little bit crude , but , they take all in good part , you know , I said to dad I said you do n't always , he 's that dry |
| 6 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 7 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 9 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 10 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 11 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 12 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 13 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 14 | Not all of them are the high mileage though are they ? |
| 15 | For example , the granites and the psammitic lithologies of the Central Highland Division and the Grampian Group are low in magnesium , copper , cobalt and ( to a lesser extent ) calcium , and soils developed on them are an inadequate buffer against acid rain — a potential threat to freshwater fisheries in the area . |
| 16 | For such areas the routeways traversed to reach them are an integral part of the attraction of the resource and need to be included in assessment . |
| 17 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 18 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 19 | Mark Calcavecchia and I are a good team ; we can relax with each other — that 's the key . " |
| 20 | ‘ Apart from a few people at the Kremlin and at Number Ten , you and I are the only people who know of the situation . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Ilona and I are the new Adam and Eve , ’ he tells me . |
| 22 | cos Edmund and I are the same age |
| 23 | Maybe so , I am no political pundit . |
| 24 | I am no molecular biologist , and would n't have dreamed of learning the techniques required to detect the immediate early genes , if it had n't been for the serendipitous arrival in the lab of a young molecular biologist from Moscow , Kostya Anokhin ( grandson of the psychologist and physiologist pupil of Pavlov , Peter Anokhin , whose ‘ functional systems theory ’ I referred to in passing in Chapter 9 ) . |
| 25 | I am no great lover or defender of the legal profession . |
| 26 | I am no great linguist but I still ca n't see how both Menes are represented , nor can I understand at all , how Daniel could have drawn from these three apparently simple words his full translation : ‘ God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it . |
| 27 | Perhaps because I have proven I am no mere parasite , and have helped her knock out one dazzling 1,500-word column for Outsider in record time . |
| 28 | I am no such thing . |
| 29 | But I am no such creature , the king thought , burning in his own fury and grief , I can not be thus constantly outdone and bear no grudge . |
| 30 | Well , I am no medical man , but that is an understatement . |