Example sentences of "be [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this season 's semi-finals at Wishaw Sports Centre on Saturday , Coatbridge face Su Ragazzi , who have never appeared in a final before , but are arguably the favourites . |
| 2 | There is a problem about investigating the first of these hypotheses in that the dreams that are remembered are presumably the ones that have more logical structure . |
| 3 | First-preference votes are presumably the votes that have been most seriously considered . |
| 4 | But you see , the trouble with polio is that once the muscles are dead the nerves which serve them are useless . ’ |
| 5 | Racing against other horses is an entirely different thing from riding horses in their work and it is not always the ones who work the best that are necessarily the winners . |
| 6 | These are obviously the ones that do n't fly anyway |
| 7 | They are obviously the remains of some kind of animal , but the problem is to decide what kind . |
| 8 | And now I see girls women who are obviously the daughters who er of girls who were at school with me . |
| 9 | Had it been only the interests of traders that were being considered , there would have been no need for Britain to have responded to the competitive challenge of other European states by formalizing and expanding her own empire , with all that this entailed in provoking international tensions , arms expenditures , and general insecurity . |
| 10 | ‘ How long since you 've been down the kennels ? ’ asked Constance . |
| 11 | What should the post-Christian then hold of the religion that there has been down the ages ? |
| 12 | And these you should remember are basically the terms I gave on the previous page . |
| 13 | Well , you do n't need all that , if you 're talking to the public , you 're telling what are basically the facts , and , if asked for your opinion on them , you then decide whether to give your opinion or to say , ‘ Well , no , that 's beyond , that 's beyond my brief . ’ |
| 14 | They are basically the nuts and bolts of the er the report , if anyone has any questions questions I 'd rather not hear it , |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , perhaps I am all the things you say , ’ Azmaveth replied , ‘ but you wo n't denounce me . |
| 16 | The team called the study preliminary but there are apparently no plans for a follow-up , and the planned publication of the results has not happened . |
| 17 | Administrators , on the other hand , are entirely the creatures of statute and it is possible that different considerations apply to administrators than apply to administrative receivers on the question of unregistered companies . |
| 18 | It is also the case that the two commonly used relationships with ratios often and 100 concern millimetres , centimetres and metres and are perhaps the units which most pupils use most frequently . |
| 19 | The attitudes of Job 's comforters are unsurprisingly the attitudes of many people today when faced with mental illness , just as Job 's symptoms are recognisable as those of a severe reactive depression . |
| 20 | I like running on damp nights like last night because the streets are mostly empty , there are only the dogwalkers trailing past trees and lamp-posts , patiently disowning their pets . |
| 21 | If these forecasts are correct , and they of course ignore the inertia of the system , and the immense social capital invested in cities , then the population and employment changes revealed by this chapter are only the precursors of a massive recolonization of the countryside , not only in the UK but also the USA ( Fisher and Mitchelson , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | But it is not entirely fair to blame this tendency on sociolinguistic methods alone , since sociolinguists dealing with gender-related variation are only the heirs of a lengthy sexist tradition in the study and lay discussion of male and female speech . |
| 23 | Now many people seem to think that technology means machines and equipment , but machines and equipment and the software that run them are only the products of technology . |
| 24 | Those are only the qualities he looks for in the people who work for him , though . |
| 25 | He might well exclude old statutes like those forbidding contraception , however clear and precise these might be , if they are only the relics of long-abandoned policies , if they represent no contemporary political decision and therefore serve no useful role in coordinating social behaviour now . " |
| 26 | The benchers of the Inns of Court are only the agents of the judges in calling to the Bar . |
| 27 | This survey shows that the present lanes and cottages are only the remnants of an extensive settlement occupying at least 28 hectares ( 70 acres ) . |
| 28 | But these are only the outcrops of a conviction which underlies all his teaching about his own mission . |
| 29 | There are only the men whose dust you can see . |
| 30 | According to pragmatism what we call legal rights are only the servants of the best future : they are instruments we construct for that purpose and have no independent force or ground . |