Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VOTERS like me are surely one of the reasons why the Conservative Party was returned to power . |
| 2 | Eight of them are over 70 . |
| 3 | ‘ They are old , practically all of them are over 60 , and traditionally not given to any kind of positive relations with blacks , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ The age structure of our customers as provided by the latest survey is as follows — approximately 50% of them are over 40 years ; some 25% are in the 20–40 age group ; while the remaining 25% are aged below 20 years . |
| 5 | ‘ Some of them are nearly six foot , ’ I said , ‘ And here I am , very small , very short , ’ and I was very slim in those days . |
| 6 | One million of them are under twenty five years of age , a disproportionately high number , you 'll agree . |
| 7 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 8 | For those of you who may be wondering , I am also 17 years old . |
| 9 | ‘ I am T'ang , yes , but I am also Seven . |
| 10 | I am nearly thirty |
| 11 | I am over 18 years of age . |
| 12 | I am over 18 years of age . |
| 13 | I stand here , I am not a perfect minister because I am over forty I 've got children that are not too awkward but erm , could be awkward and , I have n't a spouse ah and ah I stand here saying that I 'm not good at everything I 'm good with young people , I 'm not o only good with old people I try to do my best . |
| 14 | I do n't know but to be truthful I am not hundred percent sold on any of it . |
| 15 | There may be some people who would like to see you break your neck , but I am not one of them . ’ |
| 16 | I am not one of these men ! |
| 17 | She smiled widely as she shook her head , saying , ‘ No , you are not mistaken , sir ; and I am not one of twins . |
| 18 | He must have been a remarkable man , because when his aircraft was shot down he lost his right hand but before many months had passed he was back on his squadron with a hook on his right arm , and although I am not one hundred percent sure of my facts here , I believe he went back on operations as a navigator or air gunner . |
| 19 | They were grand folk , and it 's because of them that I am not one of the antismoking lobby ( although I have never associated personally with nicotine ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Some players might recognise the signs and start to wind down , ’ said Hill , ‘ but I am not one of them . |
| 21 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 22 | I am not one of them . |
| 23 | That 's a lot of people , Gaby , and I am not one of them . ’ |
| 24 | Yet I am not 100 per cent sure I want another five years of Tory rule . |
| 25 | I am not 100 per cent but I suspect that 's it , yes . ’ |
| 26 | I am now 70 years of age and whilst my hair still grows quickly in length , it is getting thin on the scalp and it is still fine , flyaway and dry . |
| 27 | I am now sixteen and like most sixteen year old girls I enjoy shopping for clothes and shoes . |
| 28 | I am now nineteen and until I was seventeen I was ignorant as any babe . |
| 29 | The argument rests in part on the pervasive nature of deixis ( see Chapter 2 below ) in natural languages , for sentences like ( II ) are true or false only relative to contextual parameters , thanks to the fact that I , now and the tense of am are variables given specific values only on particular occasions of utterance ( i.e. ( II ) is true only when spoken by certain speakers , those who are sixty-three , or true of individuals only at certain times , when they are sixty-three ) : ( 11 ) I am now sixty-three years old These facts seem to establish that truth conditions must be assigned to utterances , i.e. sentences with their associated contexts of utterance , not to sentences alone ( or , if one likes , truth conditions include context conditions ) . |
| 30 | I am now twenty-six — soon I will be twenty-seven and I have done nothing — but change ! |