Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even members of the underworld who have been in contact with me are outraged at her murder . ’ |
| 2 | They 'd none of them been lucky with men . |
| 3 | In societies where there is a strong emphasis on certain goals , but where the means for obtaining them are unavailable to most citizens , the result is a situation of anomie ; a situation , in other words , where the rules and standards governing behaviour have lost their influence and force and are liable to be ignored , and where shared norms or rules no longer determine and direct behaviour . |
| 4 | The tadpoles that develop from them are complete with mouths and external gills and they feed within the oviduct on tiny white flakes secreted from its walls , nibbling them just as though they were independent creatures browsing in a tiny pond . |
| 5 | To this hidden land come Leo Vincey and Holly after twenty years of wandering in search of the goddess woman and here the pair of them are involved with the rebellion of Atene and her husband against the secret ruler Ayesha , now called He s ( or Isis ) . |
| 6 | Some of them are involved in drawing up legislation which is based on the new communication policy . |
| 7 | Some of them are involved in drawing up legislation which is based on the new communication policy . |
| 8 | ‘ All of them are vulnerable to coastal erosion and are being nibbled away by the sea . |
| 9 | Places associated with them are identifiable in the adaptation of stathr or bolstadr , a farm , into the suffix ‘ ster ’ , as in Camster and Shebster in Caithness , and ‘ bister ’ as in Fladdabister in Shetland . |
| 10 | Although , to the casual observer , the terraces may seem unremarkable slabs of tiered concrete , certain areas within them are sacrosanct to the fans who habitually occupy them . |
| 11 | Most of them are available with turbocharged engines below the 2-litre tax break . |
| 12 | That one 's broken down by business size , and all of them are available on cheshire or self-adhesive labels . |
| 13 | Many of them are capable of organising their lives with dignity but others fall into football 's in-built poverty trap . |
| 14 | However , when observed over long periods , many species are found to be generalist in that individuals of them are capable of taking advantage of ‘ specialist ’ interactions at any one time : the ‘ anachronisms ’ show this , as do the generalized pollinators on islands where plants have ‘ left their pollinators behind ’ , e.g. a cetoniid beetle , Mauseolopsis aldabrensis , visits 58% of all flowering species , native or introduced , of all colours and morphology , on the coral atoll of Aldabra off the African coast , but it shows a remarkably high degree of constancy in its foraging flights . |
| 15 | However , women receive lower redundancy payments than men and a larger proportion of them are ineligible for payments altogether . |
| 16 | Many of them are unhappy about current proposals . |
| 17 | Naturally , some parent companies are reluctant to give sweeping guarantees , but the arguments in favour of them are strong from the expatriate 's point of view , especially if he is being asked to transfer from the parent to a less substantial overseas subsidiary . |
| 18 | Perhaps some of them are good at putting on a face , saving the grim reality for private moments . |
| 19 | Remarkable that out of thirty people elected last May , fifteen of them are new to this Council , a staggering seventeen percent of the Council if you do it statistically . |
| 20 | Many of them are reminiscent of Modigliani 's nudes . |
| 21 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 22 | It is possible to adjust the data for the high proportion of part-time workers , by assuming that two of them are equivalent to one full-time worker . |
| 23 | ‘ If she has a large family and some of them are unprovided for , say , for instance , she has unmarried sisters and aunts and nieces , then it is only right , since her husband has married into the family , that he should provide for them , too . ’ |
| 24 | Despite the entitlements spelled out in the supplementary benefit regulations , many of them are subject to discretion . |
| 25 | The standardizing , regularizing , authoritative properties often assigned to print as a medium ( though many of them are inherent in any writing system ) could have full social effect only if they had this broad coherence with general developments in the social and labour processes , to which , however , print was not a mere ancillary , for it was one of the forms of such development . |
| 26 | Extreme events which exceed the normal capacity of the human system to reflect , absorb or buffer them are inherent in hazard . |
| 27 | Adherents of all of them are active in current debate , and the story is one of proliferation . |
| 28 | I 'm sure , but they 're many of them are concerned about their budget because they live off a fixed pension |
| 29 | Most of them are concerned with the provision of safe water supplies to both rural and urban areas . |
| 30 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |