Example sentences of "be [art] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 At the same time they remained , as we all remain , implicated in other kinds of discrimination of which they and we , originally and subsequently , are the agents rather than the victims , or maybe both agents and victims .
2 what are the procedures then if fire wardens are n't there ?
3 As they approached the workshop at the Piggeries — there had been no pigs there since her grandfather 's day — she saw the clump of men , half turned away , appearing uninterested .
4 There are no suggestions yet as to who may succeed Forster .
5 It was assumed that shareholders would have a long-term commitment to their company and that if there was a problem , it would be the directors rather than the shareholders who would change .
6 In railway terms there were awkwardnesses ; all trains had to include goods and cattle as well as passengers ; sometimes it would be the cattle rather than the passengers who finished up opposite the Lydham Heath platform ; and in my grandmother 's day , Cadwallader had had on occasions to shout in broadest Shropshire to the driver ; ‘ hitch up the train a bit , Harry .
7 They enable older people to be the givers rather than the receivers of help .
8 There will be no conclusions today because , says chairman Brian Walsh , ‘ the committee felt it necessary to find time for a full discussion on cricket outside of the agenda planned for the next scheduled meeting on 26 October . ’
9 But plainly this is to ignore the extent to which the immediate beneficiaries of the sterling area were the Dominions rather than British citizens , a point neatly summarized by Table 5 .
10 But er most of my interests were in motoring actually er in the days of er after we left the school after I was driving , of course I was er , these were the days when if you had a motorcar , the whole world was at your feet , and er you could go all over Britain if you , just for petrol at one and thruppence ha'penny a gallon or something like that .
11 There were no sounds aboard as she crossed the gangway .
12 It is the associations rather than individual local authorities which are invariably the point of contact between centre and localities .
13 But it is not : it is the differences rather than the similarities that call into question Treasury projections , in particular the effect of high real interest rates .
14 A few modifications have been made to it to accommodate foreign words but , generally speaking , it is the words rather than the syllabary that get modified and some get very thoroughly modified indeed .
15 So you , you went sort of back the other way and alright it was , it was okay and , and er and there was no problems there because any , anything that came up with the C C Q you , you o you answered the questions there and went through .
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