Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then there are strange bedfellows about in these times , are there not ? ’ |
| 2 | There are eight positions up for grabs which are vice president , sports officer , entertainments officer publicity officer , welfare officer , women 's officer and minorities and overseas officer . |
| 3 | ARE European banks about to invade America — again ? |
| 4 | Some males return to the ponds on subsequent nights , but because there are few females around , very little happens . |
| 5 | At the same time , my sense of impunity is high — there are few police around and it would be easy to spot them if they were ; the risk in terms of the formal sanction ( probably a fine and endorsement ) are consequently low . |
| 6 | Unfortunately a cold home , heated only when there are wet clothes around , causes damp and consequently health problems . |
| 7 | Er there are some areas on that that , that that all of you picked up on that I actually thought that when , just dealing with that part of the C C Q like finding out about details and everything |
| 8 | I 'm also very worried , and this has been mentioned erm , by Mr , that the er , the Home Secretary seems to regard the police constabulary as a mere crime busting organisation , whereas really , the preventative work , the crime prevention , the work in the schools and the community work is absolutely vital if we are ever to solve , erm , we 're ever to stop , the er , if we 're ever able to stop the rise in crime , and this really has to be done hand in hand , I feel with local councils , and I 'm glad to say that there are some initiatives around , one of them in Mr 's own district , which is making erm , some very important steps towards that . |
| 9 | There are some ruins down there and some prehistoric engravings in the rock faces . |
| 10 | I , I think I would be unwise too to make a forecast , so all , all I can say is there are some enquiries around of er , people who appear to be interested but erm , er , you know , the burden hangs quite a lot , you know the burden 's still , the is quite a long way away still , but it 's not impossible we could sell some more land . |
| 11 | You can still use the linker , so long as there are some needles out of work between the needles holding the second shoulder ( and the neckline ) and the needles of the shoulder being cast off . |
| 12 | imagines a forest you think and of course there are real forests out there somewhere are n't there ? |
| 13 | The cynical exploitation of the latest political discovery , the environment — because there are real problems out there in Banbury , Bangladesh and Basutoland which ca n't wait , and they do n't really care about our deliberating the issues and producing yet more paper , probably from their trees . |
| 14 | The 100 index , which at one stage had been 6.5 points down , recovered strongly to be up 11.1 at 2858.1 in very thin trading . |
| 15 | In the karst region of Yugoslavia there are pure limestones up to 4000m thick and part of the area is more than 2000 m above sea level . |
| 16 | Market experts foresee a recovery this year from the recent sharp falls ; more realistic estimates are enticing buyers back to the salerooms and the Spring sales showed the market firming up for many European sculptors . |
| 17 | These are nervous times down at the Manor Ground . |
| 18 | You 're eight degrees out , which is not bad considering this the rather poor nature of your erm protractor . |
| 19 | When you 're five flights down on the ground again you re only really conscious of the high brick wall opposite , and the noise . |
| 20 | Okay , you 're twenty pounds over , you owe them , you owe me the building society , twenty pounds . |
| 21 | sure , there may be some thinking that , there may also though be er if you move through to the forties you 're , y you 're twenty years on from the nineteen twenties , you , you 've had and you 've had deterioration in agricultural conditions er as , as we 've seen you 've got erm increasing landlord absenteeism , you , you 've got a downward , an upward pressure on rent in terms of how much was having to be paid in real terms , all of those things might have come together to , to , to push the peasant over and to push him outside . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're thirty floors up , for God sake , ’ Mobuto cut in then chuckled softly to himself . |
| 23 | Oh they 're nice places round here when you er |
| 24 | Today I called for the gravy dinner plus two vedge and a carafe of red — which for me , rotting veteran of Pizza Pit and Burger Shack , of Doner Den and Furter Hut , is the equivalent of a handful of brown rice and a glass of effervescent Vitamin C. ( There are health-food joints around here , run by aged hippies or unsmiling Danes . |
| 25 | There are fewer elephants about up here erm and er the issue that obviously concerns me from the development point of view is the is the time scale , is the process rather , that that the planning policy would im would imply . |
| 26 | Apart from entrepreneurs , powerful members of the Honduran military and the ruling Nationalist party are large investors along with Ecuadorian and US multinational interests . |
| 27 | He said We are 35 seats out of 75 with this one 36 we have a by election on Thursday which we are hoping to win from Labour if we can persuade an Independent to join us we shall overall control of the council . |
| 28 | There 's this tendency to suggest that there are these providers out there , that will provide . |
| 29 | There are three performances on at 7.30 pm in the Castle Hall . |
| 30 | Bids for f various funding , there are three issues on that that came up at C S M T. |