Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People like me are a menace to the AA men , calling them out on Sunday afternoon to rebuild engines that we idly began to dismantle on Sunday morning . |
| 2 | The females , some of whom are the size of a dustbin lid , lay their eggs in the sand under about 18 in ( 45 cm ) of water . |
| 3 | Among them are a portrait of the beauteous Dorelia with whom she took a passionate walking trip across France and who later lived in a ménage à trois with her brother and his wife . |
| 4 | A lot of me mates are black geezers and some of them are a bit tasty ’ . |
| 5 | The other manufacturers are trying to do the same but I think some of them are a bit behind Rover and they 've got to catch up . |
| 6 | So that is a possi I was just wondering which one it was cos I say I know some of them are a bit you know |
| 7 | Some of them are a bit tasteless I find . |
| 8 | Well , one or two of them are a bit sort of |
| 9 | Yeah , but er , some of them are a bit out of true cos they 're seconds do you think ? |
| 10 | Among them are a Duchess who inspired ‘ awe ; ’ an engineer 's ‘ stern looking ’ mother ; and the ‘ tall and stately ’ wife of a farm labourer sitting at the fire ‘ enjoying her ‘ bit of bacca . ’ |
| 11 | But they are wage labour , and those performing them are a part of the working class . |
| 12 | She said , I mean , she says I 'm not prejudiced here , and she says there 's obvious exceptions and they 're not bad but the majority of them are a waste of time ! |
| 13 | Beneath them are a group of children with an average age of 10 . |
| 14 | But life has its storms , it has its tempests , and some of them are a lot fiercer than others . |
| 15 | The only characters which appears to separate them are the scaling of the disk , which is formed of imbricating plates in O. retecta but non-imbricating plates in Ophiochondrus , and the covering of thick skin over the jaws and ventral part of the arm in O. retecta which is absent in Ophioxhonseua . |
| 16 | Below them are the fuel cock levers , and ahead of them are the emergency undercarriage buttons and extend/retract knob for alternate airbrake operation . |
| 17 | Foremost among them are the Queen and the class bully . |
| 18 | The latter measures are much more difficult to obtain , and relationships between them are the subject of this chapter . |
| 19 | if we book er , any , er , erm , a deal with them through P & O European Ferries , if we book one car and a person on a standard return fare crossing , they 'll give you a free five day return to be used on the same route in the autumn them are the deal with exclusive to the A A so do n't just get across once , cruise across twice |
| 20 | Among them are the burgeoning of musical writing ; the involvement of an increasing number of people in making music ; in some places the improvement of quality , and the dedication of many choirs , organists , directors , instrumentalists , composers and clergy to the cause of music in worship . |
| 21 | Below them are the fuel cock levers , and ahead of them are the emergency undercarriage buttons and extend/retract knob for alternate airbrake operation . |
| 22 | ‘ I been a bartender all my life . ’ |
| 23 | But wait a minute , I thought , had n't I been a woman out there ? |
| 24 | Had I been a father in my early twenties I would have been dreadful because there were so many things I still wanted to do . ’ |
| 25 | A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base . |
| 26 | ‘ But I believe Enya , Roma and I are The Entity . |
| 27 | I am no expert on pickups but I do n't want to get a replacement if I can fix the existing one . |
| 28 | You might say " I am no artist " , or " I ca n't draw a straight line " , or " I have n't drawn or painted since I left school . " . |
| 29 | So , when he declares : ‘ I am no orator , as Brutus is , ’ it is possible to notice how shrewd Mark Antony really is . |
| 30 | I am no orator , as Brutus is , |