Example sentences of "[be] [n mass] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hess has protected them , although in theory they are people he should not even know . |
| 2 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 3 | But these are people I like reading ; it does n't go further than that . |
| 4 | Well they might not because there are people I mean like me students who might not . |
| 5 | There are people I report to . ’ |
| 6 | I mean , if it 's just that you 're too close to it and you do n't want me to look at it , there are people I know who 're good at that sort of thing ; they can see the wood from the trees ; they could — ’ |
| 7 | I 'm especially happy if there are people I love around me . |
| 8 | ‘ If I did , ’ he said , ‘ they are people I can trust . ’ |
| 9 | On the whole , on the principle that the people who are not covered by union membership very often are people it 's very difficult to organise . |
| 10 | ‘ There are people you answer to other than Hilary Todd . ’ |
| 11 | You 've bitten through a bigger peg than this one I 'm dragging.Tell us what to do . " |
| 12 | Our loved ones will often be people we have known over many lifetimes , who have agreed to play a role which will help us to learn and grow — perhaps by recreating a childhood pattern , by rousing our hidden emotions , by challenging us to remain open , honest and loving , or by modelling qualities which we need to develop . |
| 13 | Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind . |
| 14 | ‘ Paysage d'Harfleur ’ , dated 1900 , reveals his debt to the Impressionists , and there are works he painted on first arriving in Paris , after ten years spent at Le Havre with Dufy and Friesz . |
| 15 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 16 | I mean , these were people I was listening to when I was kid , and then suddenly I 'm having dinner with Carl Perkins ! |
| 17 | By the time the gay movement started in 1970 the gay friends I had were people I had picked up or met through a pick-up ; I probably knew about half a dozen gay people intimately . |
| 18 | ‘ Among them were people she had met on her earlier visit . |
| 19 | Even with sentences not of the form A is f(X) it is often the case that a sentence containing a hyponym unilaterally entails a parallel sentence which is identical in all respects except that it contains a superordinate in place of the hyponym : |
| 20 | Thus , if the settlor obtains a loan of , say , £25,000 and the income available is £10,000 he will be taxable on the £10,000 . |
| 21 | These are pretty hot stuff so it is £80 I am afraid . |
| 22 | Doctors point out that most cases are isolated and secondary spread of the disease is rare.And they stress meningococcal meningitis is treatable if its picked up early . |
| 23 | Doctors point out that most cases are isolated and secondary spread of the disease is rare.And they stress meningococcal meningitis is treatable if its picked up early . |
| 24 | Why have you , I thought I saw one but then I thought this is staff I think . |
| 25 | For instance , the first rule can only be applied when x is C and y is A. It produces the state on ( A , table ) ∘ on ( B , table ) ∘ on ( C , table ) . |
| 26 | It 's people I 'm afraid of . |
| 27 | I mean there 's people I had n't even seen for years that were staying there in Aberdeen came along and offered help . |
| 28 | Mind you , there 's people you 'd miss over here . |
| 29 | They 've said would n't you like to be somewhere where there 's people you can talk to an that and she said yeah , did n't she ? |
| 30 | The panoramic vista over the Thames to Westminster is breathtaking.As I sit , gazing at the glossy art books carefully laid out before me , I become aware of a clipped , militaristic voice behind me . |