Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] be [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can find out a lot by seeing if there is bedlam in the playground or if there are lots of crisp packets and chocolate papers scattered about — this will give you clues to how the school is managed . |
| 2 | One result of my illness has been to change all that : When you are faced with the possibility of an early death , it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do . |
| 3 | If he felt , sometimes , that he had heard too little of that interview of Primaflora 's , and that there was something of desperation now in her love-making , he did n't pursue it for once ; and even the matter of Katelina remained only as an anxiety held well in check . |
| 4 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 5 | He despised homosexuals , and although there were plenty of other sexually depraved aristocrats around at the time , he was unfortunate enough to have married into a family ( the Montreuils ) who had strong court connections , and it was they who made sure that he was jailed , partly to get him off their backs ( so to Speak ) and partly as an example to others . |
| 6 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 7 | But while there are plenty of people who want to look at the car , what sort of person would actualy want to buy it ? |
| 8 | But though there is plenty of scope for debate over the details , such as whether God should appear in the preamble , there is consensus on many bigger points . |