Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun sg] be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He breeds budgies and my conservatory was full of birds . |
| 2 | But , John , put yourself in the customer 's shoes , and my wife 's one of your customers . |
| 3 | But , as Bruch has pointed out , anorexics tend to deny fatigue , and my diary is full of complaints such as , ‘ felt dead tired ’ . |
| 4 | And his son in law O J , had become one of the partners and my cousin was one of the partners , but old Jonathan was still the senior partner . |
| 5 | ‘ I hate earthy browns and my wardrobe is full of bright things , ’ she says . |
| 6 | Do you know , Michael Riven , that I and my father are two of the lucky ones ? ’ |
| 7 | That cousin and his wife were against me and my husband was frightened of them . |
| 8 | ‘ They took two of the children and my mother was one of them . |
| 9 | That distinction , shockingly banal though it is , has been hard to shake from my mind , and its persistence is one of the things I want to explore in this article . |
| 10 | Doubtless the slow ‘ stately ’ motion of Jupiter in its orbit and its brightness were some of the reasons for which the Romans gave to this planet the name Jupiter , the Roman king of the gods . |
| 11 | When tolerated , elemental diet is as effective in the short term as prednisolone in newly and previously diagnosed Crohn 's disease , and its benefit is independent of nutritional state . |
| 12 | Niskanen assumes that the agency possesses a monopoly advantage : ‘ although the nominal relation of a bureau and its sponsor is that of a bilateral monopoly , the relative incentives and available information , under most conditions , give the bureau the overwhelmingly dominant monopoly power ’ ( Niskanen , 1971 , p. 30 ) . |
| 13 | Her gaze swept over her mother-in-law from head to toe and back again , and her expression was one of open contempt . |
| 14 | Cora-Beth 's head shot up and her expression was full of anxiety . |
| 15 | As far as he was concerned , both she and her sister were two of a kind — cheap and unprincipled , living for the moment , regardless of who got hurt in the process . |
| 16 | Her house was a new one , built of bright reconstituted stone , and her sitting-room was full of blue Dralon armchairs , and occasional tables , each bearing a single china ornament , mostly whimsical animals . |
| 17 | ‘ A dozen hens , ’ she said and her voice was full of pleasure , ‘ and six pullets . ’ |
| 18 | In a house facing there and her son was one of then Caernarfon er what do you call them er militia like and they had to go talking with me and a little One of the first little motor cars like this . |
| 19 | As to the wife , she is now treated seperately from her husband , and her responsability is independant of his . |
| 20 | She was just very nearly unintelligible and her speech was full of that idiomatic ungrammaticalness which characterises the true dialect speaker . |
| 21 | All she had taken out of Ireland when she had fled had been the money she had made there and her trade — and her trade was that of a Madam . |
| 22 | These Dwarfs are capable smiths and keen-minded merchants , and their presence is one of the reasons why Altdorf has become the dominant city in the Empire . |
| 23 | In November 1937 he read the script aloud to Martin Browne and his wife , and their reaction was one of " fascination and doubt " : there was too much description and not enough action , they felt , and so he began once again the struggle to elucidate plot and characters . |
| 24 | There were then 3,688 such schools in England alone , and their record was one of considerable achievement : the staying-on rate had doubled since 1958 , and clear improvement could be noted — for example , in raising standards of reading . |
| 25 | Even as the first-year girl drew her inferences , her headmaster , Manuel Lenarduzzi , was preparing for last night 's meeting with her parents and those of other first-year children who are the guinea pigs of the new system and whose future is one of attainment targets . |
| 26 | They stood to attention , but it was clear that both the administrator and his deputy were unsure of the proper response . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's as good , for his age , as they 've got , and his wife is one of the sweetest women I know in this town . |
| 28 | He knew he was drinking too much but , damn it all , what else was there to do when a man was off duty and his wife was hundreds of miles away ? |
| 29 | ‘ Oh Alexandra ! ’ he said , and his voice was full of laughter . |
| 30 | Dobson seems to be quite sure of this , but Machyn was almost certainly a Londoner , and his Diary is one of the most valuable primary sources for the study of EModE London pronunciation . |