Example sentences of "and [noun] be [noun] [coord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid paying his debt he drowned Myrtilos , whose dying curse rested on the family : the sons of Pelops and Hippodameia were Atreus and Thyestes . |
| 2 | On countless little tables and shelves were books and ornaments , photographs in silver frames , and mementoes of that life spent in a hot country far away . |
| 3 | In a God-less world , the likes of Attenborough and Bellamy are magicians or missionaries , conjuring up in our hearts the conviction that , yes , God must have created kangaroos . |
| 4 | In fact most of the most famous Athenian philosophers and writers were critics and opponents of the democracy . |
| 5 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 6 | Both Latimer and Neville were soldiers and diplomats . |