Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MV I am optimistic overall . |
| 2 | Anyway , when I got on the scales I 'm ten stone three . |
| 3 | I weighed 10 stone before I was nine months old ; by 14 months I was 15 stone and six feet tall standing on my back legs . |
| 4 | Oh James no James you want some listeners I 'm sorry love . |
| 5 | The span of possibilities here is enormous : we can follow Stravinsky in adapting Medieval forms ; we can write songs which are pure melody ; or we can use a form which ignores musical values , taking the guise of a word-drama . |
| 6 | From these beginnings Leonard founded the Co-operative Holidays Association which was non-profit making and became popular enough for advertisements to be placed in Christian World in 1893 , offering CHA run rambling holidays in the Lake District . |
| 7 | Combination ovens are the most popular models , allowing conventional cooking , grilling , combi convection which is conventional cooking combined with microwave and the combination of microwave and grilling . |
| 8 | This is a very safe car , but it is also a car which is great fun to drive . |
| 9 | Ezekiel states that the unit for his visionary temple was ‘ the long cubit which was one cubit and a hand 's breadth , ’ and moreover that the overall dimensions of the temple were 100 cubits square . |
| 10 | But then he said a neighbour who had a dress , just wearing a dressing gown and he was married with three kids which is next door heard what going , been going on and he they were chasing , were chasing all through the common . |
| 11 | The disk is round , diameter up to 15 mm , densely covered with low granules or spinelets which are very rugose and do not form a crown . |
| 12 | Zips : a double zip which is smooth running with an inner draught baffle . |
| 13 | He was shocked to see that this beard , unlike his hair and whiskers which were dark brown in colour , was sprouting with an atheistical tint of ginger , only a little darker than the whiskers of the free-thinking Magistrate . |
| 14 | They are centres of friendship where relationships which are light-hearted combine with the serious business of running a school on corporate lines . |
| 15 | The curving pond , flanked with stunning peonies which were another legacy of the garden and thrive in London 's clay-based soil , is an experiment , says Patricia , that she intends to improve on this summer . |
| 16 | The crystal will only let through light which is polarised perpendicular to a certain axis , called the crystal 's optical axis . |
| 17 | While most of the sectors which are expanding employment in the economy are services , there is also a group of new and growing manufacturing industries . |
| 18 | Once more the secret is to learn-by-doing , to make the TL part of that do-it-yourself mirror practice which is daily routine . |
| 19 | Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . |
| 20 | Lastly , on systems with zone control , the problem may be caused by a faulty motorised valve which is isolating part of the system . |
| 21 | Well , he was talk we were talking about the rave and th what was wrong with it and he was saying basically it was they 'd got four DJs who were all techno and they were like brilliant ! |
| 22 | The video looks back on the occupation of Latin America by Europeans and draws attention to the present situation of the millions of people throughout the continent who are suffering poverty and disease . |
| 23 | This word is ‘ Readers ’ , which seems to indicate by my reckoning that 5 out of every 6 letters written on women players are sent to readers who are Steffi Graf fans . |
| 24 | As fighting continued , thousands of refugees fled to Zagreb to escape from Serbian fighters who were seizing territory and advancing amid the supportive bombardment of the army . |
| 25 | marketing director for Prontaprint , sets out a few simple guidelines to help anyone in the hotel industry who is commissioning design and print . |
| 26 | I recently put some of these questions to Joanna Turner , who 's a psychologist who 's special interest is the development of young children . |
| 27 | The two men charged are Alan Hill who 's joint master of the Vale of Aylesbury hunt and another huntsman Gordon Middleton . |
| 28 | He was at once promoted to lance-corporal but although Travis [ Commander Edward Travis who was chief administrator at B.P. ] tried for the next six months to find a suitable military unit to which Harold could be attached as an officer , he had no luck . |
| 29 | If you 're looking at triangles you 're first thing you 're looking at is has it got a right angle ? |
| 30 | St Jovite , Europe 's leading colt who is 6–4 favourite for the Arc , runs in the Champion Stakes at Leopardtown today . |