Example sentences of "of [pers pn] be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most of them are bloody wars . |
| 2 | of them are such dickheads |
| 3 | Most of them are petty tradesmen . |
| 4 | Although I believe they are improved as a class , many of them are rough diamonds ; at times they are light-fingered , they are not invariably sober , their education leaves much to be desired and it is impossible to allow them the run of the works after closing hours . |
| 5 | Some are caverns , but most of them are tiny pores — such as the spaces between grains of sand in a sandstone , or networks of equally fine cracks . |
| 6 | Remember , many of them are married men with families and jobs . |
| 7 | But I 'm worried about the effects they have on society , because a high proportion of them are emotional messes whose principal driving emotion is envy . |
| 8 | Fruits and vegetables , even in their raw , unprocessed state , differ so much that you certainly ca n't say that all of them are useful sources of fibre . |
| 9 | Many of them are part-time workers and many have had their already small number of hours reduced further . |
| 10 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 11 | Thirty words in addition are phonic alternatives : most of them are reasonable attempts : |
| 12 | Both of them are rotten drivers and I 'd had enough painful experiences for one day . |
| 13 | But some of them are bad-tempered ratbags who should be locked away in a cellar with a lot of other feminists . |
| 14 | Most of them have never been involved in politics before , though all of them are Labour voters . |
| 15 | These particles , this particular matter is generally given the sort of generic term seston some of those particles are mineral particles some of them are colloidal aggregates as the iron tends , iron , iron , ions tend to come together to form colloids in solution and some of them are particles of biological origin . |
| 16 | Finally , although the majority of colleges and institutes of higher education are local education establishments , twenty-four of them are voluntary colleges run by the churches and educational trusts , a situation which derives from their previous existence as voluntary colleges of education . |
| 17 | Many of them are voluntary colleges run by the churches , and given the forthcoming cuts in expenditure on public sector higher education , they look particularly vulnerable to closure or merger with other colleges . |
| 18 | And too many of them are deliberate re-runs of those seen in the aforementioned film . |
| 19 | Some 24% of them are true endemics ; 18 species of flowering plants in this category are restricted entirely to the high Arctic . |
| 20 | The vast majority of them are non-Kuwaiti nationals leaving Kuwait , erm Bengalis , Thais , Sri Lankans , Phillipinos , erm never mind Arab nationals who have been leaving to Egypt , Sudan , Lebanon , Syria and Jordan themselves . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of them are 1,000 miles away in Florida and as far west as Wichita , Kansas . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Most of them are 16-year-old Kiwis who have n't an idea how to pull a decent pint of Guinness . ’ |
| 23 | Granted you may be advertising to a sector of the market which does not have a university degree or even two GCSEs , you still have to recognize that few of them are illiterate morons . |
| 24 | Less than half of them are first-preference votes . |
| 25 | Some of them are big beds and some of them are , only girl in the world who is , do you think she do that , . |
| 26 | The Ford deal was accepted by most Aston owners ‘ with a surprising degree of sympathy , ’ says Gauntlett , ‘ largely , I suppose , because a majority of them are independent businessmen themselves , and understood the necessity . ’ |
| 27 | For another , all of them are incomplete creatures , incapable of independent life . |
| 28 | Er , some of them are different words , for influencing on , a bit a bit of a mis-match here of mish-mash , rather of those different aspects . |
| 29 | All of them are potential sources of trouble for a beginner in Word . |
| 30 | In spite of some of them being mere cuttings , there were too many of them . |