Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing were such power stations described as ‘ brick cathedrals ’ ; Bankside is the finest manifestation of this tradition . |
| 2 | What you can do about them is another matter which we shall deal with . |
| 3 | I did n't solve them but thinking about them was good exercise . |
| 4 | Saints boss Ian Branfoot said : ‘ Our best two displays of the season have been against Chelsea and Sheffield Wednesday this holiday weekend , and all we have to show for them is one point . ’ |
| 5 | There are a number of , sort of a dictionary of useful phrases , I mean you actually used one or two just now , and one of the things that we suggest is that people when they 're not under the pressure of being in the studio , which after all for them is alien territory , that they should actually have one or two of these useful phrases which do cover a , a multitude of embarrassing situations , if you want to put it that away . |
| 6 | The bond which grows up between them is some compensation for giving up mother . |
| 7 | In Judaeo-Christian tradition , the antithesis between them is another manifestation of the conflict dating back to Cain and Abel . |
| 8 | Bürger in such a context would assimilate both ‘ realist ’ and ‘ modernist ’ art to autonomous and bourgeois art , the only distinction between them being that modernism with its inaccessibility and greater cult of the creator is even more autonomous , more ‘ auratic ’ , than realism . |
| 9 | The offices are I think the offices are I think , for the offices between them were ten pound fifty last time . |
| 10 | But the single most important song for me was Public Image by Public Image Ltd . |
| 11 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
| 12 | It is his show in Paris which attracts hoards of fans ( some of whom are hardened fashion journalists ) all keen to catch the first glimpse of Thierry 's latest creations . |
| 13 | To make sure that the job was done properly , Mr Lobov appointed three new deputy ministers , two of whom are former deputy chairmen of Gosplan , the Soviet central-planning agency . |
| 14 | Other Cabinet members included : Nepali Congress members Marshal Zullum Sakya , Mahendra Narayan Nidhi , and Yog Prasad Upadhyay , who became Home Minister ; United Left Front members Sahana Pradhan ( the Nepali Communist Party leader , who took on the portfolio of Industry and Commerce ) , Jhal Nath Khanal , and Nilambar Acharya ; two prominent non-party opposition figures , Devendra Raj Pandey ( an economist and leader of the Human Rights Organization of Nepal , who became Finance Minister ) , and Mathura Shrestha ( a professor of medicine , who was appointed Minister of Health ) ; and two members nominated by King Birendra , one of whom was Rai Majhi , who became Minister of Education , despite protests by students and teaching staff . |
| 15 | The COB accused Paz Zamora of giving in to United States pressure and reneging on an election promise that crop substitution measures would remain the central strategy to eradicate the growing of coca crops by 60,000 peasant farmers , many of whom were former tin miners made redundant as a result of the collapse of the international price of tin . |
| 16 | Thus the ideas formulated by scientists and mediated by the medical profession formed the framework within which all women , including active feminists ( most of whom were middle class ) , had to work . |
| 17 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 18 | That , I mean , the , the appointments what Jane and Linda do make me , I 'll be honest , they 're quality appointments , not all of them but I would sixty , seventy percent of them are good quality appointments . |
| 19 | Many of them are powerful gringo media barons . |
| 20 | Some of them are absolute rubbish some of them are very very very good . |
| 21 | Too many of them are visual firework displays without an emotional centre , or a coherent narrative structure . |
| 22 | And erm a lot of them are retired business men , or , or people still , people in business who give their time freely to it . |
| 23 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 24 | And if Graham Taylor sticks with the Wright-Shearer partnership , England wo n't go far wrong in their World Cup qualifying group because both of them are international class . |
| 25 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
| 26 | Most of them are common sense but you would be surprised how , in our eagerness to succeed , we often forget them . |
| 27 | cos some of them are three ply and I thought I 'm not gon na sit and knit three ply . |
| 28 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 29 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
| 30 | Most of them are hard man . |