Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Demolition work has been postponed indefinitely and tonight thee are new moves to give the building protected status .
2 Thee are excellent facilities for children , with a kindergarten and a kid 's playground in the Kurpark .
3 Not for nothing are black holes called black .
4 I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men .
5 ‘ The rumours of a reconciliation between James and me are absolute balls , ’ Becky said .
6 In rural areas the poor , many of whom are agricultural workers , are harnessed to their jobs through their housing , under the system of tied cottages .
7 Before the Secretary of State sets sail to be Governor of Hong Kong , will he exercise his subtle and calming qualities on behalf of the 5,500 British expatriates , many of whom are Scots engineers working in the oil industry in Libya ?
8 Ranch meals are invariably big and hearty , and the smaller the ranch the more likely it is you 'll be sitting down to eat with the wranglers , many of whom are great characters .
9 The questions were raised in proceedings brought against the Secretary of State for Transport by Factortame Ltd. and other companies incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom , and also the directors and shareholders of those companies , most of whom are Spanish nationals ( hereinafter together referred to as ‘ the applicants in the main proceedings ’ ) .
10 Tribunals consist of a lawyer chairman , many of whom are full-time appointments , sitting with two lay members , one representing employers and one employees .
11 The limitation of the right to asylum does nothing to improve the status of 6.5m foreigners already in Germany , most of whom are long-time residents .
12 It is his show in Paris which attracts hoards of fans ( some of whom are hardened fashion journalists ) all keen to catch the first glimpse of Thierry 's latest creations .
13 In that task I am assisted by a team of six managers , all of whom are professional nurses and district nurses or health visitors and they of course are there to advise me on professional issues , and to share with me the management task of using the resources of Oxford City in the way that we feel is best appropriate , and in doing that , I think one of the important things for us to do , I do n't think we do it quite as well as we should , is to work more closely with the local council , and to look really at what the needs of our local communities are for health , and to try and make sure that the feelings that might well be expressed by individuals , either individually , or through caring associations , or through other statutory agencies , or through voluntary health organisations , are actually given a chance to be there , and to influence our , that official policy and constituents , and to , to influence the planning process .
14 About 17 per cent of all families with children are now headed by a lone parent , nine in ten of whom are lone mothers .
15 They were Mr Gilbert , sound recordist Peter Edwards and cameraman Philip Bonham-Carter , both of whom are independent film-makers and have worked on the broadcast before .
16 It includes the major owners of the means of production , company directors , top managers , higher professionals and senior civil servants , many of whom are large shareholders in private industry .
17 A ring is an arrangement whereby several dealers all of whom are interested I in a given item agree not to compete in outbidding each other at the public auction but instead to allow one of their number to buy it as cheaply as possible .
18 There are now over 16,000 people who have graduated from the University of Stirling , all of whom are potential members .
19 Over time , a comprehensive mailing list of nurses can be constructed , all of whom are potential recruits .
20 OLIVER said that words like everyone and someone and no-one are singular pronouns and must therefore be followed by the singular possessive pronoun , namely his .
21 And if Graham Taylor sticks with the Wright-Shearer partnership , England wo n't go far wrong in their World Cup qualifying group because both of them are international class .
22 Many of them are powerful gringo media barons .
23 In the terms discussed in Chapter 2 during our reinterpretation of the Chicago School , these groups convert certain districts in what for them are front regions .
24 Some of them are absolute rubbish some of them are very very very good .
25 Too many of them are visual firework displays without an emotional centre , or a coherent narrative structure .
26 Many of them are part-time workers and many have had their already small number of hours reduced further .
27 Fruits and vegetables , even in their raw , unprocessed state , differ so much that you certainly ca n't say that all of them are useful sources of fibre .
28 Most of them are petty tradesmen .
29 internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport .
30 But some of them are bad-tempered ratbags who should be locked away in a cellar with a lot of other feminists .
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