Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now fear and horror are my only companions . |
| 2 | Distinctive features of the course are its professional emphasis , the considerable element of computing laboratory work and the year spent in industry . |
| 3 | Health Optimism and positive thinking are your greatest assets in keeping fit and well . |
| 4 | Collinson had been told by John Bartram of his son 's artistic talent : ‘ Botany and drawing are his darling delight … |
| 5 | The overt and crudest manifestations of Irish misogyny were our first target and we vented our rage and flexed our lesbian muscles in a myriad of dangerous and daring ways . |
| 6 | Such land could , in theory , be used to produce up to 30 million tonnes of fuel , with further advantages of biodiesel being its sulphur-free composition , its " extremely positive " energy balance , and its price competitiveness provided it is tax-free . |
| 7 | Miss Siham and Rain Splash were his latest successes , winning the Stonefield Selling Handicap and P & O Containers Scottish Handicap at Hamilton Park . |
| 8 | This gave them potential political leverage were their sectional interests to be threatened . |
| 9 | The millions who would soon be looking for somewhere to spend their hard-earned break were his natural customers . |
| 10 | Leila Williams ( a former beauty queen ) and Chris Trace were its virgin presenters , the show a seven-week experiment that caught on and gave the world John Noakes ' arse , the most famous shitting elephant ever , many an expedition to Ceylon , sticky-backed plastic , ‘ soldier dolls ’ , umpteen dogs , Sarah Greene ( cheers ) and a hell of a lot of jeeps paid for by old forks and ring-pulls . |
| 11 | Much more impressive than occasional pronouncements of Jesus about the Old Testament is his constant appeal to it in a wide variety of different situations . |
| 12 | Centre forward is my best position . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps , the most appealing factor of a duvet is its apparent lightness which also retains a great deal of warmth . |
| 14 | Team briefing is our main vehicle for communicating information about the company and for obtaining feed-back through the organisation . |
| 15 | Clearly only Mrs Guzzard can resolve the mystery , and arrives on stage to reveal that Colby is her own son and that his father , like Colby himself , was a " disappointed musician " . |
| 16 | Orme 's output totalled some 700 illustrations , but his monument is his British Field Sports of 1807 , described by C. F. G. R. Schwerdt ( 1928 ) as ‘ the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries ’ . |
| 17 | And the sense of speed is something deaf-blind people can really appreciate . ’ |
| 18 | However , in many horses , but not all , the best barometer of its degree of rising emotion is its top lip . |
| 19 | the juniper is her holy bush |
| 20 | As the old Stock Exchange saying goes : ‘ Your first loss is your best loss . ’ |
| 21 | Egypt 's best recent result is their 1-0 win over Bulgaria in Cairo in March last year . |
| 22 | The result is her five-month-old daughter . |
| 23 | One of the attractions of a national testing programme is its supposed potential to help decision makers with policy formation , for example with how to allocate resources . |
| 24 | Coaching is his big strength and that 's why he made such a phenomenal start , taking a bad side all the way to Wembley . |
| 25 | ‘ The mind is its own place , and in its self |
| 26 | Do you see the people in your mind 's eye-their facial expressions ? the colour of their clothes ? |
| 27 | Optimism is my middle name because , unable to agree on a name , my parents stuck a pin in a dictionary . |
| 28 | The analogy is his Chinese room , in which two Chinese-speaking people pass Chinese symbols backwards and forwards , in appropriate ways , watched by a non-Chinese speaking Westerner . |
| 29 | Such in-depth research is what Sunday-morning collecting should evolve into but seldom does . |
| 30 | These programmes must emphasise that scientific research is our highest priority , and they should be developed to convey knowledge derived from plant science research in interesting and innovative ways . |