Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] be [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brazilian has himself been world champion three times . |
| 2 | I thought the newt or the Knifefish might be eating the fish , but one of my books says they are community fish , and another says they are not . |
| 3 | and it was money prizes but they took , they were looking for things to take marks off cos all the other schools doing it were state schools |
| 4 | Jashav Barisna says it 's auction price will be only two percent of it 's original value . |
| 5 | Good estates ensure there are shelter belts of trees available ; they feed the deer in winter and shoot the full recommended quota to keep the numbers down to what the ground can support . |
| 6 | His face had gone into something soft that his nose told him was dog dirt . |
| 7 | All she could see before a whirling storm of foam obscured everything were attitude control thrusters , IMC logos and refuelling ports . |
| 8 | In fact the first person to say it was anthropologist Thomas Hornsby Ferril , who wrote an article in the Rocky Mountain Herald in December 1955 that put forward the idea that American football is actually a : |
| 9 | ‘ Some people said they were fund managers but we ca n't really be sure , ’ says a BP spokesman , darkly . |
| 10 | A big slice was wrapped up , complete with whipped cream , to be devoured in the early hours of the morning , when jet lag said it was breakfast time … |
| 11 | A campaign group that 's been set up to lobby on behalf of the thousands of people who are thought to have lost their pensions says there 's lttle hope of Alan 's ever being refunded … |
| 12 | And he 'd been apprenticed in Liverpool with a firm called they were ship repairers in Liverpool . |
| 13 | Community leaders believe they were copycat incidents inspired by Rostock . |
| 14 | It was diagnosed eventually as congenital heart failure , though at first doctors thought it was liver failure , but it had also affected the lungs . |
| 15 | Tory Peter Jones said it was time South Africa was brought in from the cold . |
| 16 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |
| 17 | Mrs Austin said there were health worries if bodies were stored overnight but Dr Mohammed stressed that this would not happen . |
| 18 | The regiment says it 's character building , fun , and most importantly , a useful way of recruiting . |
| 19 | We see another bunch of outdoor reporters huddled into their coat collars , clutching mikes like they were chocolate lollies . |
| 20 | I do n't know whether you will consider this good news or bad , sir , but Andropulos knows there are hydrogen bombs aboard that bomber . |
| 21 | In order to increase it 's market share and to build exciting long term business prospects it was quickly realised that Noble Metals would have to provide more value to it 's customers that their competitors . |
| 22 | Bryony said they were daddy ones . |
| 23 | Either Fiat have resisted the temptation to change it 's body styling or the bean counters in Turin have decreed against it . |
| 24 | Mr Carus said there was strike action and Gavin was hounded by refuse collectors to make on-the-spot hardship payments in pubs and clubs . |