Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Hanne knows is that the two of them are staying somewhere in Copenhagen for an indefinite period . ’ |
| 2 | Some of them are getting very elaborate , and you 're seeing the stuff in the press for things like ten percent gross yields , has anybody seen those ? |
| 3 | I said well a lot of them are leaving today . |
| 4 | A very large increase , and of course some of them are living longer — instead of three or four per cent over what we call retirement age there will be perhaps six , as now in China , there may be eight , into the next century ten . |
| 5 | Its nodes are all like WISARD 's RAM chips , but the interconnections between them are arranged so that the nodes are in a layered partial order , not necessarily a tree . |
| 6 | There were fifteen sisters here , but sadly most of them are gone now the old originals |
| 7 | This ‘ hidden interest rate ’ may also add to the rates shown above for shop accounts , trading checks and tallymen : the rates shown for them are based solely on interest charged by them . |
| 8 | Administering , as part of a cross-sectional survey , a series of attitude questions to a sample of respondents , we will not be able to determine which of them are expressing fairly firm attitudes from those responding out of some whim or other , or who have changed , or who simply want to please the interviewer or get rid of him . |
| 9 | no I 'm not , I 'm sorry I said some of them are raised now for the first time , I was about to say I 'm not complaining I 'm simply pointing out , standing here without the instructions I ca n't deal with the matter |
| 10 | Industrial and commercial groups are also paying dearly for their rash incursion into property , futures and other financial instruments during the late 1980s : the banks that advised and funded them are faring even worse . |
| 11 | Some of them are constructed very much like a church ; and an Essex writer , C. Henry Warren , very aptly called them ‘ cathedrals of labour ’ . |
| 12 | I mean we had a lot of them are run anyway on credit , there 's no real capital lying behind those businesses . |
| 13 | There are libraries which have a legitimate reason for being subject to the Official Secrets Act , and a number of them are represented here . |
| 14 | To give some idea of their range and diversity , some of them are reviewed here . |
| 15 | All three of them are buried there . ’ |
| 16 | Sawyer runs the world 's only leech farm and 75% of them are sold abroad , to hospitals , schools and universities . |
| 17 | Some of them are sold quite quickly . |
| 18 | There is little doubt among practising doctors , both in hospital medicine and in general practice , that the demands and pressures on them are increasing rapidly . |
| 19 | And all of them are making so much money these days out of replacing the world 's ageing fleet of oil tankers that they can accept losses on their aircraft business in order to keep their foot in the door for the day , however distant , when they can compete with their own aeroplane . |
| 20 | Against them are ranged just about everyone else with a flavour of Unix — including IBM , which has AIX — in a group called the Open Software Foundation . |
| 21 | Past cases are only helpful in so far as they act as a guide and some of the main points arising from them are discussed below . |
| 22 | I 've got some more of these sheets if anybody wants them There are a lot of them on my door , and not very many of them are taken away . |
| 23 | The delightful tunes are all there , but some of them are taken too slowly , and some of the settings are either lachrymose or slurred . |
| 24 | He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . |
| 25 | Such places exist in some blocks of workmen 's dwellings , and applications for them are waiting long before a vacancy occurs , provided , of course , that they are in a convenient district . |
| 26 | . I put the two of them are sleeping together in the same room and the other one 's in , we 've put her back in with us . |
| 27 | The woody floras of those forests that are surrounded on all sides by arid woodlands consist of species with wide neotropical distributions and many of them are found elsewhere in a wide range of habitats while few are restricted to montane forest . |
| 28 | Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson whose own title defence is in tatters , admitted : ‘ There are eight or so teams up there , but there is no indication that any of them are putting together the kind of run that looks ominous ‘ Blackburn showed the sort of confidence against us that comes from the feeling that you have got a chance . |
| 29 | Feminist ideas are presented as extreme , and women who hold them are described variously as unfeminine , man-hating , aggressive , ugly and perverted . |
| 30 | ‘ I am , ’ said Linda , ‘ I been squashed all over and I ai n't got no breath left . |