Example sentences of "be [pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these are nothing to the disadvantages I see to just living with a man . |
| 2 | They are nothing like the divers we have tried to photograph and largely failed to capture because of their timidity . |
| 3 | are nothing like the ones that he using ! |
| 4 | Because the material can be shot in any order , there are none of the limitations of edit-in-camera recording . |
| 5 | There are none of the problems of tracking down shareholders who may exist across a number of States , and who may be subsidiaries of other bodies . |
| 6 | There are none of the problems we have been discussing concerning image data because the videodisc is an analogue medium . |
| 7 | Here are none of the divagations and contradictions with which Patrick O'Brian follows the course of Aubrey 's life with Sophia or Maturin 's long , difficult passion for Diana Villiers . |
| 8 | Or are you on the streets ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Are you … are you with the airlines ? ’ she asked . |
| 10 | He said : are you like the ones in the old Store ? ’ |
| 11 | So , tell me , are you in the antiques trade too ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Look here , are you from the police ? |
| 13 | cor he said your early , I said yes , so are you by the looks of it , got a fiver and you 've had that much out of it . |
| 14 | Just one question was asked to each of the chosen seven : How heavily influenced are you by the sentiments of groups like The Smiths and do you think that a record like that is capable of causing a drastic change in your attitudes to a subject like vegetarianism ? |
| 15 | A good example are the ‘ golf ’ tickets from Craven Arms to Plowden , where upon making enquiries I was informed that there was no golf course , but there had been one in the years before World War One . |
| 16 | ‘ How far are we from the marshes ? ’ asked the officer . |
| 17 | Where are we after the Kids ' County you know what you rang up for in the first place ? |
| 18 | In the circumstances , a 9–0 defeat shows that ordinarily there would be nothing between the teams . |
| 19 | The match referee , a technician at his side if necessary , could be the magic eye , unless it is to be someone from the ranks of the umpires themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ There may well be something for the police in the Jefferson connection . |
| 21 | What form these certificates will take is not known , but maybe it could be something along the lines of : ‘ This is the spot where I flattened … ’ |
| 22 | As opposed to soft facts , soft facts can be something along the lines of what you want out of life er |
| 23 | Whether an individual member of the class can sue depends upon the size of the class and the nature of the comment : there must be something in the circumstances to make the ordinary reader feel that the plaintiff personally is the target of the criticism . |
| 24 | ‘ I just filled the silly thing out so there would be something in the files , and they could prove employment in case an auditor ever came in , ’ Mandy had said petulantly . |
| 25 | It really wants to be one without the roads marked . |
| 26 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 27 | ‘ Can it really be as you say , that fame — that vicarious life in another 's breath — will be mine in the years to come ? |
| 28 | She could not wait to rush up to her room to read the latest book her friend had lent her — which could be anything from The Stones of Venice to The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 29 | She wondered if this might be anything like the bananas that Mrs Parvis said were so exceptional . |
| 30 | The raft of policies that the Opposition are putting before the British people would be devastating to job prospects , and so ashamed are they of the consequences of their policies that four Labour members of the Select Committee on Employment last week voted down a proposal to hold an inquiry into the effects of national statutory minimum wage because they wanted to hide the truth about that policy from the British people . |