Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now fear and horror are my only companions . |
| 2 | Health Optimism and positive thinking are your greatest assets in keeping fit and well . |
| 3 | Miss Siham and Rain Splash were his latest successes , winning the Stonefield Selling Handicap and P & O Containers Scottish Handicap at Hamilton Park . |
| 4 | This gave them potential political leverage were their sectional interests to be threatened . |
| 5 | The millions who would soon be looking for somewhere to spend their hard-earned break were his natural customers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do you see the people in your mind 's eye-their facial expressions ? the colour of their clothes ? |
| 8 | Yes when you go up there you 'll have to register but if you I mean I presume the university term 's what ten weeks ? |
| 9 | This categorical indeterminacy is what many groups felt renders the story itself indeterminate . |
| 10 | GIVING women pleasure is what most men worry about when making love , says a survey in Chat magazine . |
| 11 | Unhappiness was our cold bedrooms and condensation settling like dew . |
| 12 | Power and influence are what social systems live on . |
| 13 | what type are they all doves are they ? |
| 14 | The professionals motivate , guide , provide resources and strategy , but at the heart of a political campaign are its voluntary workers . |
| 15 | And we are discovering that we are not interested in exploring the finer points of alienation with tea cuppery , but that the theatre can be a bridge of bone between sickness and health — that our language will somehow always be on the edge of poetry and that image and metaphor are our natural tools — they best express whole worlds and histories in collision with each other . |
| 16 | I ca n't wait to tell Ernest that you and Con were our anonymous benefactors all along . ’ |
| 17 | Shame and honour were what motivated men . |
| 18 | Medical work is what medical workers say it is . |
| 19 | These soliloquies occupy a unique area of dramatic speech ( although the solo aria is something modern dramatists are now using more frequently ) . |
| 20 | Kelly 's dream was one most girls of 11 would expect to come true . |
| 21 | I I 'm not sure at the moment are there any days that are |
| 22 | The growth of wheat , the birth of a lamb , the movement of clouds , put him in awe of nature : the locomotive he sees as man 's response : the switch and throttle are his magic wands … the girl may come to the science lesson with a less eager curiosity than the boy , but she too will need to feel at home with machinery . |
| 23 | The campaign of Benson & Hedges has evolved remarkably over the past dozen years and has now reached a point at which the motifs chosen to dissemble the product are themselves classic symbols of dissembling — pretty fans for the summer months in 1988 , attractive fishing lures for the autumn . |
| 24 | I am in the process of fitting scaffolding runner boards to offer some protection , but it is still a concern that I could explode because of a minor accident Are there any cases of this happening ? |
| 25 | Horne 's qualifications for this post were his own skills as bookbinder , architect , and designer ; he was also an authority on furniture and antique musical instruments , as well as a connoisseur of music-hall . |
| 26 | Its main claim to fame is its elongated ribs with which the lizard can extend a short fringe of skin along either side of its body , at the same time flattening its body . |
| 27 | The company 's core product is its object-oriented LispWorks development environment . |
| 28 | Bob Dixon from Inn Business says : ‘ Our core business is our managed houses . ’ |
| 29 | The staff of any organisation are its best ambassadors or conversely may be its worst . |
| 30 | Friday night and Saturday night are my busy nights . |