Example sentences of "[det] be [noun] [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are collector 's pieces , and apparently they 're especially popular with men customers . |
| 2 | Investment has turned positive overall at the U K level and the regions which are leading investment expectations and this is people 's expectations about what they 're going to do in terms of investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead which I think is probably the meaningful one to focus on rather than buildings numbers erm the two regions which are leading that are the south west erm and that makes sense because the south west is , has the lowest number of firms who say that they 're working below capacity and also the West Midlands , for the last five surveys the West Midlands has either been the most optimistic |
| 3 | There was one more group dealt a glancing blow by the Prince around the same time : and this was Britain 's farmers . |
| 4 | Such were sport 's priorities in the year the Olympics played host to more multi-millionaires than an OPEC conference , and the Premier League opened its greedy doors for business . |
| 5 | These are Amy 's papers are n't they ? |
| 6 | These are Hazel 's favourites . |
| 7 | These are John 's reactions on hearing what he thinks to be someone else in his apartment block . |
| 8 | These are Ann 's questions . |
| 9 | These are Genet 's reconstructions , and perhaps the gulf , the void , are his as well as the soldiers ' . |
| 10 | ‘ These are Falconer 's goods , ’ he explained . |
| 11 | These were Stalin 's policies , and the leaders of many nations would have been happy to have seen him removed . |
| 12 | These were babies ' bodies , over forty of them in various stages of decomposition . |
| 13 | One of these is pupils ' attitudes to the various rival innovations , if they can not be coordinated together . |
| 14 | All are King 's Courts , as opposed to the Communal Courts of counties and hundreds , Lord 's Courts , or Ecclesiastical Courts . |
| 15 | Almost all are Jehovah 's Witnesses . |
| 16 | All are publishers ' editions and they are nearly always offered to you at greatly reduced prices and start from as little as £1.95 . |
| 17 | Most spectacular of all were Burlamachi 's services as a sort of unofficial paymaster , notably of English and English-financed expeditions abroad , which provided the occasion for a multitude of ways and means advances in anticipation of slowly and irregularly mobilized government funds . |
| 18 | Many were Shadwell 's acquaintances , people he 'd met only once or twice . |
| 19 | We want to be able to challenge the whole idea of housework being women 's work , just as we want to challenge whether engineering or surgery or being a crane driver or a football referee , whether any of those are men 's jobs . |
| 20 | Right , so those were Sarah 's points . |
| 21 | More of the same is King 's Rovers demand |
| 22 | And here and there you will see hieroglyphs have been erased , if somebody 's got a chisel and there 's a , just a raise a whole block of hieroglyphs , er just there and then and almost always that is Akhenaten 's workmen did it and the hieroglyphs they were erasing was the plural er gods . |
| 23 | Well , what he has in mind are those very books which are the core of our course , that is Freud 's writings on social sciences , religion , society , morality , social philosophy , that , that kind of thing . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's King 's Regulations . |
| 25 | That 's Pippa 's things . |
| 26 | That 's Louise 's feet ! |
| 27 | ‘ They ca n't be our lot , ’ Taff whispered , ‘ That 's Jerry 's positions over there . ’ |
| 28 | As Barth once put it , he and Brunner were like the elephant and the whale : both were God 's creatures , but it was impossible for them to meet ! |
| 29 | Both were Dickie 's favourites , and though normally he ate twice as much as his mother and myself put together , he refused second helpings . |