Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the precise implications of this statement are is not quite so clear ( e.g. will these be transactions of significance in recording activities , processes , and decisions ? ; how are transactions defined ? ) . |
| 2 | Could these be photographs of the vitalistic ( ‘ soul ’ ) field of living creatures ? |
| 3 | Why should we all be critics ? |
| 4 | By convention these will all be members of Parliament although not necessarily from the House of Commons . |
| 5 | They will probably all be members well before 1996 , which is the earliest date for phase 3 of EMU . |
| 6 | Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other . |
| 7 | He considers that many occurrences of phenomena to which we give diverse names like UFOs , ghosts , will-o-the-wisps , and apparitions of various sorts , may all be manifestations of earth lights . |
| 8 | Guarantees , new charges , and inter-company transfers can all be preferences . |
| 9 | The grown-up version , now chancellor himself , would doubtless cringe at the Macmillan rhetoric of 34 years ago — ‘ we must all be expansionists … |
| 10 | Could they all be inventions , disinformation planted on gullible amateur spy-writers by the KGB ? |
| 11 | They may , for example , all be functions of time , so that we must write A = A(t) ; they may be functions of a parameter , typified by unc when the elements are rational integral functions of{ gl } , the matrix is called a lambda-matrix ; or the elements may themselves ( especially for vectors ) be independent variables . |
| 12 | Size and location of office , level of distraction , quality of decor and furniture and fittings can all be signs of overt status . |
| 13 | The troubles in Sheffield and South Wales , the example of " Red Clydeside " and the inspiration of revolutionary Russia might all be signs of a new and terrible future . |
| 14 | But it would all be lies . |
| 15 | You can all be scientists today by helping me do some magic science tricks |
| 16 | Alice was already thinking : Yes , tonight you 'd think we 'll all be friends for life , we could never harm each other , but it could all change , just like that ! |
| 17 | He 'll come back , and we 'll all be friends again . |
| 18 | erm erm Brian calls us experts at the beginning of the programme erm everyone listening knows we ca n't all be experts of course on all these things , we 're just sort of amateurishly trying to be sensible on these questions . |
| 19 | This made it clear that periti might not all be theologians ( 'canonists and other experts ’ were also mentioned ) , and that there was a distinction between conciliar periti and private advisers to bishops . |
| 20 | The problems we 'll encounter will all be products of our own brains . |
| 21 | They would all be troglodytes before the war was over , thought Lucinda , with eyes that stood out on little stalks . |
| 22 | The people who will decide will all be heterosexuals . |
| 23 | We ca n't all be gentlemen of leisure like you , living off the social . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ No , dammit , you ca n't all be scapegoats , ’ Gibbs said , ‘ that would be absurd … |
| 25 | ‘ Well , we ca n't all be policemen can we ? |
| 26 | ‘ By the end of the decade we shall all be publishers . ’ |
| 27 | If we were n't , we 'd all be Klingons . |
| 28 | We ca n't all be winners . |
| 29 | You do , let's all be cats . |
| 30 | ICI can not argue that the buyers of its assets would all be rogues , especially now that the party-time stockmarkets of the late 1980s have been sobered up by recession . |