Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 2 | As neither he nor I were long-term government servants , we were rather more critical of policies and decisions , and did our best to see that reasonable criticism was reasonably answered . |
| 3 | I think one of the ways gender operates for us is that we are both women researchers and women audiences . |
| 4 | Although they were both Mississippi bluesmen , with John Lee you 'd never know when he was gon na change chords ! |
| 5 | " That they are all sex maniacs ? " |
| 6 | There are good habits and bad habits but the main point about them is that they are all behaviour patterns which have been so thoroughly learned that they are done automatically without any conscious effort . |
| 7 | There was a bit in the paper today about er Ratners , in the Samuels outlet selling carriage clocks for three hundred pounds and claiming that they are solid mahogany cases , but as they 're chipboard with a mahogany veneer , and er they 've been had by the Trades Descriptions Act , three , who would pay three hundred pounds for a mahogany one anyway ? |
| 8 | Under the present regime , where differential pricing is forbidden , big tied agents like the Halifax , Nationwide and Leeds Permanent — taking advantage of the fact that they are powerful distribution channels with ‘ hot client bases ’ — have pushed up the commissions they receive from the life offices to which they are tied to huge levels . |
| 9 | Like the CAPM it assumes that investors prefer more wealth to less , less risk to more risk , and that they are rational decision makers . |
| 10 | Ms Fitzgerald puts initial demand at perhaps only a dozen companies in the US , but adds that they are leading edge customers which other potential users will be watching carefully . |
| 11 | You would have thought , from the way they were all carrying on , that they were all closet members of the British Interplanetary Society . |
| 12 | There were spoofs on the Officers , insinuating that they were upper class twits , and there were jokes about the Squadron based on its experiences in Chad that summer . |
| 13 | The common link was that they were long-term drug abusers , and they all bought their heroin from pushers in the streets of San Jose and Watsonville , in June and July . |
| 14 | When I looked more closely , the ropes , winches and heaps of nylon netting showed me that they were superior fishing vessels . |
| 15 | Coming to a barrier across the road manned by a pair of bored Italian sentries , Fitzroy Maclean shouted out that they were German staff officers . |
| 16 | At least that way I shall feel more confident that it 's Labour Party members and supporters who are selecting candidates and electing the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party and not a Liberal or Tory trade unionist who happens to be paying the political levy . |
| 17 | That would take ages so they 're having land reform as a means to an end and that how that it 's improving living standards of peasants so that they get mass support , land reform was the only political option they had . |
| 18 | The legislation that came out as a result of that then was absolutely sure , you know that it was copper bottom insurances given given that er legislation would prevent accidents of that nature again . |
| 19 | The FMLN denied government claims that it was refusing to withdraw its forces to appointed territories , that it had under-reported its arms and troop inventories , or that it was encouraging land occupations and was planning to establish agrarian settlements in a disputed border area with Honduras . |
| 20 | He said again that it was great being friends with them . |
| 21 | You mentioned er , earlier about yo , the fact that you were surprised that it was fifteen year olds , and that was quite young |
| 22 | One apparent reason for the delay was the Bush adminstration 's fear that to conclude a free-trade pact in mid-1992 as originally envisaged would be an electoral liability in the US presidential contest , opening Bush to attacks from protectionists that he was encouraging US companies to relocate to Mexico in search of cheap labour while unemployment continued to rise at home . |
| 23 | ‘ So it 's two fruit punches for the girls , and one for myself ? ’ |
| 24 | My Dad s always talking about trying a windmill , but he 's never managed it yet , so it 's home-made tallow candles in the winter , to save the electricity . |
| 25 | Next to Paul Theroux and me were two lady companions . |
| 26 | We have to attract more people to the island , and I 'm sure Crystal Springs is going to put Barbados right up there on top of the tourist destination list . ’ |
| 27 | If you 're suffering withdrawal symptoms , that 's too bad , but do n't expect me to help you . ’ |
| 28 | Tesco , working with local Councils and environmental groups , already provides bottle banks at 60 stores and we are developing recycling centres for glass , aluminium , steel and plastic . |
| 29 | ‘ This move is now in progress and we are running production trials , ’ said Richard Leake , manager of the department . |
| 30 | Now , there 's an , there 's an alternative being put forward as a compromise , but a a compromise is n't a compromise , the compromise as it looks er involving us , and we 're all Party members , as already indicated , as individuals and saying top up , let's top up , we 're already paying are n't we , the political levy , let's pay a bit more , right , is actually one that reduces our input as an organization . |