Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] be [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So taken with this image was former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that she let it be known throughout the realm that Marks & Spencer was the place she bought her underwear . |
| 2 | The novel 's third scene or zone is the city itself . |
| 3 | Somewhere or other is a place my dad took me once , where there are tall stone buildings huddled above a blue sea , donkeys , and guys in grey suits with open white shirts and faces that look like their owners have had time to consider every move they make . |
| 4 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 5 | A better balance than elsewhere between industry and agriculture was the advantage she derived from slower industrial growth ; she also owed to it some of her resilience and powers of recovery after two world wars . |
| 6 | If I ruled the world everyone would sing and shout , war and bombs are the things I would throw out . |
| 7 | Boys became men when they learnt the difference between a Médoc and a Côte de Nuits ( different shaped bottle ) ; and women became women of the world when they found out that , when in doubt , AC Sauvignon and Chardonnay were the wines they liked to drink . |
| 8 | The dogs warden who had originally transferred the dogs from Oxford to the police kennels confirmed that Robbie and Sophie were the dogs he had taken , and Mrs Sumner — breeder of the Sharmas ' dogs — stated that they were certainly not the dogs she had sold . |
| 9 | But what alarmed and frightened her most and had her leaping for her pen was this talk of ‘ us ’ , of Oreste and Ellen being a pair who were ‘ happy together ’ and would never come to Italy . |
| 10 | Dreary and dark 's the way we are going . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ When your brother Maurice 's wife was ill and David was an infant I understand you looked after him from time to time . ’ |
| 12 | The higher altitudes , shorter growing season , poorer soils and topography are the factors which constrain the levels of production and systems possibilities relative to the lowlands . |
| 13 | in fact I feel the price we charge for concessions and youngsters is a giveaway we might as well give them away for nothing . |
| 14 | One of the most admired features of the educational systems in France , Germany , and Denmark is the way they integrate a substantial proportion of what we would call ‘ general education ’ into their vocational programmes . |
| 15 | The van der Waals equation is where a is a constant which corrects for the attractive forces between gas molecules and b is a constant which corrects the volume of the gas by allowing for the part of the volume occupied by the gas molecules . |
| 16 | We all basically have flushes , sweats , depression and various other problems , but basically the ladies who present with flushes and sweats are the ladies who in fact get help for ladies who do n't present with flushes and sweats finish up as osteoporotic and they 're the ones we are very concerned about ! |
| 17 | And attitude is the thing which erm we look at quite closely , and I think you must consider your attitude . |
| 18 | By mid-March he was far behind with the reviewing on which he now chiefly depended for a living , Cottle was becoming ‘ clamorous ’ about preparations for the new edition of poems , and Osorio was a commitment which seemed likely to reach for months into the future . |
| 19 | One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder . |
| 20 | Giles Estwick has got an airline to sponsor one of those international exchange schemes , and Flo is the jock we 're sending to this station in Hawaii for three weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ We are not sure whether Tim and Willie are the ones we would look to for Murrayfield , anyway , ’ Dwyer added . |
| 22 | These fingers holding cups and glasses are the ones you see picking over clothes on the stalls . |
| 23 | If a husband and wife are the adopters they have the same rights as against one another , and as against the adopted child , as if they were the child 's natural father and mother . |
| 24 | In the middle of many clashes and difficulties were the men whom I had met , and to whom , if I had been a true friend , I might have given something of the faith and spirit which could have helped them find a better way for their people . |
| 25 | ‘ Those nondescript spots and blotches of fur and feathers are the wildlife we tend to see most often , ’ he writes . |
| 26 | I do n't know about you , but courage and integrity are the words I always think of when I consider record labels . |
| 27 | Life as ritual and art is a belief we associate very much with those ‘ long-forgotten ’ Nineties when sins were still scarlet against which Eliot professed to be reacting in 1917 when he declared that their ‘ aesthetic eccentricities may now be ignored ’ . |
| 28 | The market aimed at by ryokan owners and managers is the Japanese who want a home from home , and westerners who wish to sample traditional Japanese life . |
| 29 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 30 | Let no one ever be sincere with me — it is a failure of respect , and respect is a thing one can never get enough of . |