Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are annuals or biennials , many are compact perennials or subshrubs ; even the sweet bay , a tree , can be grown satisfactorily in a tub . |
| 2 | Some are things that have to be known if anything at all is to be known . |
| 3 | It is as if they might be responses to requests to " write up " exchanged conversation and counsel — some are lyrics and short prose poems on the nature of contemplative life . |
| 4 | Some are combatants and others work in agriculture , They describe their music as giving culture back to the people , allowing them to find a new identity and respect for their collective cultural history . |
| 5 | Some are bacteria and some are viruses . |
| 6 | Some are communications and weather satellites not unlike their civilian brethren . |
| 7 | Some are instigators or formulators of such programmes . |
| 8 | Some are tacticians and some are back-room boys , dealing with logistics ( see box above ) and military planning . |
| 9 | Less popular are competitions and advertisements . |
| 10 | The aggregate derived demand functions are given as : where all parameters are positive , , P 1 and P 2 are prices and and are quantities . |
| 11 | This can be compared with the form of the WLF equation where ατ is the reduced variables shift factor , C 1 and C 2 are constants that can be evaluated from experimental data , and are found to be and when T g is the reference temperature . |
| 12 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 13 | Indeed , so popular were indulgences that during 1498 and 1499 an estimated 2000 English priests were obliged to request plenary indulgences from the pope on behalf of their lay parishioners . |
| 14 | Most of the victims were peasants , some were students and teachers , and 31 were children and young people . |
| 15 | Some were ex-police or ex-army or whatever . |
| 16 | and er then when they left school some were missionaries and some were nurses . |
| 17 | If force was ruled out as you say , why were 150 riot police equipped with riot helmets , shields and batons needed to remove 51 people , of whom 43 were women and children ? ’ |
| 18 | I know it 's a different subject like this is drugs and the other thing is smoking but like it 's still the same if people see you do it people take things off you . |
| 19 | The only clear exception to this is rules that are imported by statute . |
| 20 | This is warts and all film making which , though done to good effect , is hardly uplifting . |
| 21 | This is kings and fives . |
| 22 | So , if erm so your , your , your principal complaint , I maybe wrong it maybe not your principal , look at page a hundred and twenty seven for your assistance , erm standard form of agreements restricted competitions , the service of the petitions or the agents provided so this is names and thereby restrict the competition as the agents them say erm then impose on that it was a regime etcetera , erm that the , the competitive the anti competitive one is your sub paragraph one is n't it ? , on page one , two , seven your saying look here is a of , of dictated through their bi-laws , a standard form that all agents must use , you say , erm , er that that restricts competition because it means that agents are free , or as free as they ought to be , erm to compete with each other or providing services to outside names , I follow that , I did n't say I except it , but I follow that entirely , erm , but does n't , does n't , if you 're right does n't it follow that the agreements are void ? |
| 23 | People of all types with unusual objects upon their person are also considered suspicious , whether this be holdalls or pocketfuls of 2p pieces ( suspected of being used to entice children ) . |
| 24 | For example , suppose that currency 1 is sterling , currency 2 is dollars and currency 3 is Deutschmarks . |
| 25 | Now this was flies that the old ones ate flies the new ones ate . |
| 26 | Well all this side of First Avenue of course was all country all this was fields and corn fields and what have you |
| 27 | The following are guidelines as to where direct selling is most appropriate . |
| 28 | However , when the Community will reach the third stage and whether the currency union will be well-founded are questions that will be largely resolved by what happens during the transition period . |
| 29 | The complaining deprived are liars and parasites . |
| 30 | Following the stylistic and archaeological debate over whether paintings in the prehistoric cave found by Henri Cosquer at Sormiou , near Marseilles , in September 1991 were fakes or not ( see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , October 1992 , p.17 ) , scientific analysis of pollen and carbon-14 remains have confirmed a palaeolithic date . |