Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 2 | Pictures done in the zoo can be much better than those done in a museum from a dry skin , perhaps not very convincingly stuffed ; but only if there are field sketches too for the artist to work from can he hope to get the background right . |
| 3 | So there are protection zones being , there are protection zones already in , and more are proposed . |
| 4 | Alternating with the local programme are day trips away for anyone who 's keen , visiting Kosta or Maistraki for a swim and a taverna lunch , sailing to Spetse town to explore ashore , or anchoring off Blue bay or White church bay for a lazy picnic . |
| 5 | As a result there are pilgrimage churches right across northern Spain and on the main routes traversing France , Germany and Italy . |
| 6 | Not only are beer taxes still with us , but they have just gone through their biggest shake-up for many years . |
| 7 | There had been trade unions before of course , and er activity but not to the same extent between fifteen er nineteen fifty five to sixty , there was a great surge forward . |
| 8 | The reduction and payroll costs of five million or six point eight per cent reflects the staff reductions which took place last year These are efficiency gains primarily in areas of management and distribution . |
| 9 | In functional terms there do seem to be storage facilities relatively near the entry channels through the senses , those for the visual and auditory systems are called respectively the iconic store and the echoic store ( Wickens , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Speaking on behalf of James 's parents , Ralph , 26 , and Denise , 25 , of Northwood , Kirkby , Mr Sexton said : ‘ The Bulger family wish to thank the public for their tremendous support at this very difficult time but would ask that there be family flowers only at the funeral . |
| 11 | The indigo birds and whydahs of Africa are brood parasites just like the European cuckoo , but there are some interesting differences in the ways in which they have adapted to a parasitic lifestyle . |
| 12 | There are health resorts both at home and abroad . |
| 13 | There were election posters up for the mayoral race . |
| 14 | There were question marks too over Branson 's choice of his editorial team . |
| 15 | But there was another wheel at the other end and there was a loch that the the f there were hill fields up between . |
| 16 | There were credit marks too for the silver haired John Boston . |
| 17 | Well then , when they went there it were , it were grass fields all round them , were n't it ? |
| 18 | There were cigarette burns all over the body and knife cuts , including what appeared to be a rough inscription , on Antonio 's back . |
| 19 | There were traffic jams all along the North Circular Road , a particularly long one at Stonebridge Park and another at Hanger Lane . |
| 20 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 21 | There were railway bridges close to the Beckenham boundaries , that at Beckenham itself being too low for double deck cars . |
| 22 | There were fire engines all over the place , but nobody came to tell us what was going on . ’ |
| 23 | She was still wearing her apron which , evidently , she had been using to wipe away her tears ; as a result there were grease marks all over her face , giving her the appearance of a participant in a minstrel show . |
| 24 | Notice how these are problem definitions straight from the text and given in terms of observable behaviour . |
| 25 | Disposable bands came in and out and now people are TV stars instead of rock stars . |
| 26 | Roadworks may affect your journey if you 're travelling through on to the 423 at Bunkers Hill , there 's lane restrictions there plus some temporary traffic lights in operation this evening . |
| 27 | We 'll go the other way down to the superstore because there 's traffic lights down at the end of our road . |
| 28 | It is no it 's part of Group but it 's power tools down in . |
| 29 | And it is no bad thing that Karajan , whose concerts have been gala occasions now for the best part of forty years , also sold around one hundred million records since he began recording in earnest in 1946 . |