Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [noun pl] [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we ever hear about are disasters and complaints and things that have gone wrong . |
| 2 | All he cares about are women and booze . |
| 3 | and the aargh , just squeezed in and this lad sort of shit himself completely and went zoom right up the road then , well I knew what was gon na happen so I dropped right back and er how he missed him I do n't know , it must of been inches or itches |
| 4 | However , only a few Nonjurors became active Jacobites , in the sense of being agents or conspirators . |
| 5 | ‘ I sort of pride myself on being a normal human being and not a rock caricature , not pandering to people 's expectations of being psychopaths or cray-ZEE ! people … ’ |
| 6 | We can not receive the happiness of being sons and daughters of God without the chastening education of our Father 's love . |
| 7 | He wrote a series of letters to Pepys , Locke and other friends , accusing them of being atheists and Catholics . |
| 8 | In September of that year he wrote to Pepys , Locke and other friends accusing them of being atheists or Catholics , and of trying to embroil him with women . |
| 9 | Instead of being men and women , we are now men and persons . |
| 10 | It 's like being aborigines or North American Indians after the colonists have arrived . |
| 11 | Now , Benny is a dog , plain and simple , and what Benny is into is rabbits and balls , balls and rabbits . |
| 12 | This is the absolute character of Christian joy , not in being supermen or women , but in receiving the gift of faith in Christ , who is able to do far above all that we can ask or think . |
| 13 | Well the only people that I actually need to write to are managers or agents and I mean I give them a print out of what I do every day |
| 14 | She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs , but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh . |
| 15 | There seemed to be fluctuations and cycles , from one of about twenty seconds to one corresponding to the monthly lunar cycle . |
| 16 | In Germany ( where population is not the problem ) there are seen to be regulations and restrictions that have the effect of closing the secondary school market to UK product . |
| 17 | ‘ Not all of us have a vocation to be nurses or doctors . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There are bound to be critics but people clearly want to make these purchases , so we are meeting a consumer need , ’ said manager Eric Sortwell . |
| 19 | If indie men are anything but macho , indie women tend either to be tomboys or angels . |
| 20 | I told you — paper-games first , young people , students , they 're all going to be professors and headmistresses the day after tomorrow . ’ |
| 21 | In 1922 Lenin acknowledged ‘ our complete inability to conduct affairs , to be organizers and administrators ’ . |
| 22 | Native island predators , then , tend to be lizards and snakes , with the occasional bird of prey such as the Galapagos hawk . |
| 23 | With adults I tend to assume there are going to be layers or stages in the case which a repeated LM will uncover . |
| 24 | Early 20th-century Europe was full of men and women who , as their very names indicate , had chosen to be Germans or Magyars or French or Finns , and even today the name of President Landsbergis and a number of prominent Slovenes suggests German parents opting for another collective identity . |
| 25 | The Rules include a provision permitting registered foreign lawyers to be directors and members of incorporated practices with solicitors . |
| 26 | Members to be Males or Females and above the age of fifteen admitted on paying One Shilling to Treasurer . |
| 27 | Six hundred senators chosen for life ruled the city : they had to be married , to have children and to be sons and grandsons of citizens . |
| 28 | Grace sets us free to be sons and daughters of the Father . |
| 29 | a body corporate ( other than open-ended investment companies ) to persons it reasonably believes to be members or creditors or holders of other investments issued by it ( or another group company ) and it contains only an invitation relating to that investment |
| 30 | When the alternative seemed to be squabbles and point-scoring , many of these people decided at the last minute to give John Major the benefit of the doubt . |