Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [noun pl] [pron] [am/are] " in BNC.

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1 Prisons should be places which are austere but decent , providing a busy and positive regime which prepared prisoners for their ultimate release .
2 He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them .
3 and I 'm sure that there must be listeners who are very interested in this , perhaps as parents , or perhaps being involved in education , is there any book or booklet they can get hold of to learn a bit more about the subject ?
4 Erm it 'll it 'll be enquiries which are of very general interest , Mm erm which I should think you 're just as much of an expert as anybody else at answering .
5 Once again , the principal performers could be children who are helping an adult .
6 Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there !
7 SIB said that although a large number of investors have received redress there may be others who are not aware they have reason for complaint or of how to complain and may be eligible for compensation .
8 But there may be things which are forbidden by your law . ’
9 In areas of geographical mobility people may be neighbours who are culturally strangers .
10 The cause most immediately apparent may be presuppositions which are inaccurate or inadequate , but this is not necessarily the root of the problem .
11 The other kind would be academics who are committed to a tough professionalism on the American model , who believe that knowledge advances and becomes obsolete , that theory is essential , and that nothing of interest can be said about literature outside an institutional framework .
12 Most of the participants will be women who are involved in journalism and communication training .
13 If this process is combined with lateral shifting of the river the result will be terraces which are not paired ( Fig. 9.7 ) and which converge downstream towards the mouth of the river ( Fig. 9.8 ) .
14 The second , smaller but also growing band , will be teachers who are strong enough and courageous enough to stick their necks out publicly .
15 There will be firms who are practising today who will probably figure in the er top one hundred in the city who in my opinion will not be practising in that shape or form three years from now .
16 ‘ Each council can decide what to do and interpret the regulation and law to fit its own area , but we would point out that if the council goes ahead with the plan , it will be ratepayers who are going to bear the cost . ’
17 What we would point out is that if Ards Borough Council does decide to go ahead with this , it will be ratepayers who are going to bear the cost of such a move , ’ added the DoE spokesperson .
18 I am not a Christian because I do not credit , as I earlier put it , that nature and history could be other than closed causal nexuses or believe that there can be events which are in some way qualitatively different from other events .
19 These can be gestures we have learned and share with the rest of our own particular speech community , or they can be gestures which are purely idiosyncratic .
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