Example sentences of "be [noun] [coord] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is , toilets are toilets and they do n't and they |
| 2 | They are foreigners and they appear to be drinking . |
| 3 | ‘ These people are animals and they have no part to play in our community . |
| 4 | Matthew ( 4.7 ) : These beads are cylinders and they 've got a hole right through them . |
| 5 | However , hillwalking is largely safe but there are risks and we have to educate people about these risks if we are going to improve safety . |
| 6 | and what our boys … our volunteers … the boys all say they are looking forward to it some have been canoeing and they expect it to be fast and bumpy … |
| 7 | There may be pupils whose eye condition makes it difficult to tolerate bright light and who suffer to some extent from photophobia ( for instance those who are albinos or who have coloboma ) . |
| 8 | the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir |
| 9 | We 're pros and we have to act like it . |
| 10 | ‘ They are mutes but I doubt if they would become involved . |
| 11 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 12 | ‘ They seem to think we are troublemakers but we have women , children and people over 70 years of age . ’ |
| 13 | Been shop and I treat you to summat . |
| 14 | ‘ There are problems and we have a lot to do . |
| 15 | Obviously the Aussies are favourites but we pose the biggest threat . |
| 16 | We opportunities are privatization but we 've also said that is a threat . |
| 17 | So a sequence might be , I am Alice and I come from Alabama , I am Bob and I come from Birmingham , I am Clive and I eat custard , I am Don and I eat doughnuts … and so on . |
| 18 | ‘ Most of those boxes , I 'm afraid , are dummies and I do n't know if we have that particular brand in stock at present . |
| 19 | These centres are flagships and I hope more will follow . ’ |
| 20 | This lot 'll be Shrimp and he do n't matter . |
| 21 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 22 | Obviously there has to be guidelines but we find cycling very compatible with quiet enjoyment of the forest . |
| 23 | I 'm Horace and I bring you greetings today from the Hundredth Bomb Group Association in the United States and particularly to the Hundredth Bomb Group Association in the United Kingdom with which many of you are associated . |
| 24 | I 'm Phil and I work in , erm , Mar Marketing Department , down in Croydon . |
| 25 | You see , before that , that land behind us , before it was all built on , it used to be plots and you know the man coming up with the |
| 26 | ‘ Bore da , Miss Emily , I 'm Joey and I 've worked for your father since I was a boy . |
| 27 | There 's going to be rain and I do n't think your scrapes are finished . " |
| 28 | Yes , supposing I 'm mutant and I have , I have a mutation which promotes my reproductive success one hundred percent . |
| 29 | I work with a number of young people who are aspiring to be writers and we have put together an anthology of Black women writing about their experiences from inside South Africa . |
| 30 | I 'm Rashira and I come from Birmingham . |