Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because a commitment to representative government and loyalty to democratic institutions are themselves fundamental constituents of our collective political morality . |
| 2 | so I said what bike are you getting and he said |
| 3 | Now if Jim is telling us that there are four hundred and ten vacancies now and he 's explained where those four hundred and ten vacancies are we 've picked up another fifty p places within that eighteen months . |
| 4 | all what like , what type of notes are they ? |
| 5 | What excuse am I going to give there ? ’ |
| 6 | How many Claires are you having ? |
| 7 | This is not a marsupial , but a member of the group of egg-laying mammals , the monotremes , so remote from us that marsupials are our close cousins by comparison . |
| 8 | ‘ And my reasons are my own affair . ’ |
| 9 | Such objects are what we now call black holes , because that is what they are : black voids in space . |
| 10 | The waste and boredom typified by my early schooldays are what liberal educationalists have aimed to eradicate . |
| 11 | He did not live in an empty house , and some of those possessions are yours . |
| 12 | The resulting final accounts are nothing more than summarized cash books . |
| 13 | This may well be defensible , but the nature of the arguments required to sustain such a defence are themselves controversial . |
| 14 | But although new roofs have been built , many windows remain smashed and most bathrooms are nothing more than rubble . |
| 15 | If duties are what you must or should do , wishes are what you want to do . |
| 16 | ‘ My wishes are what matter too . ’ |
| 17 | M. Are you being sarcastic again ? |
| 18 | Questions of privilege are themselves justiciable and have , on occasion , been referred by the Crown at the instance of the House in question to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ; what approach would be proper in such a circumstance ? |
| 19 | The one occasion when written and broadcast reports of statements made by persons who possess absolute privilege are themselves absolutely privileged is when they concern proceedings in the courts . |
| 20 | Now fear and horror are my only companions . |
| 21 | ‘ What story are you giving them ? ’ murmured the Substitute . |
| 22 | As for Mr we 're out of recession are we ? well if that 's an excuse for saying let's close homes well , I think that 's a a terrible shame , all he , the certainty that he wants to offer to our elderly people is the certainty that their home will close and they 'll be thrown out of it . |
| 23 | The hardships we are suffering in the recession are nothing compared to the hell of the Bosnian detention camps , and if we can not find the cash to help what amounts to very few of them then we are morally as well as economically bankrupt . |
| 24 | cos there not for this board are they ? |
| 25 | You had to lie on a board , his doctor said , oh it 's lumbago which , all the signs are the same , where that pain goes all down your leg effecting the or mia , sciatica and have to lie on a board , and we were in the prefab then and you actually er not , like some people put the board are you interested ? |
| 26 | Do n't you remember look if there were a hundred minutes in an hour that would be two point one two , but there 's not a hundred minutes in an hour are there ? |
| 27 | Well if they 're within existing industrial areas , then they 're not included in the I five provision are they ? |
| 28 | Now the blue flames are What 's happening is this , there 's two reactions taking place in that coke fire . |
| 29 | But the new mergers are its first in a state that is not contiguous to one in which Banc One already operates . |
| 30 | It was a government word used , for example , in the 1975 slogan ‘ Socialism and freedom are one ! ’ ( later to become ‘ Islam , socialism and freedom are one ! ’ ) , painted on walls and on the triumphal arches set up over main roads . |