Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you , colleagues , am I glad that meeting was before this Congress . |
| 2 | Am I aware that each catechist shares in the feedback ? |
| 3 | They are not at the cutting edge of Harvard Business Review ( HBR ) type networking but they are I suspect typical of many organizations . |
| 4 | ‘ These are my asparagus , my fraises de bois , cauliflowers , horse-radish , my lettuces and beets , carrots , leeks , peas , squash , string-beans … these are my dear little peonies , these are my perennial beds . ’ |
| 5 | The letter concludes , ‘ You are my only real Father Confessor . ’ |
| 6 | Those are my only remaining memories of the first five years . |
| 7 | They are my only remaining close family and though I wo n't hang on to them I have worried about feeling lonely . |
| 8 | But here are my chosen few . |
| 9 | ‘ I think the things I 've been most pleased with have been my excellent second-hand buys . |
| 10 | But they might ponder whether such sentiments are more in line with the German and Japanese approaches that will probably dominate the 1990s rather than are their traditional capitalist values that have dominated the 1980s . |
| 11 | Uralmash 's faith in foreign joint ventures highlights the fundamental weakness of Russia 's industrial dinosaurs : foreign partners are their only likely source of new capital ; and they are the best source of new designs and technology . |
| 12 | The men are their usual uninspiring selves . |
| 13 | Are their special cultural or religious regulations that govern the children 's dress or food ? |
| 14 | ‘ Are ye sure this is it ? ’ |
| 15 | Other products it hopes to push are its X400-based electronic mail systems for Windows , and , more peculiarly , it is intent on becoming a big player in the commodity world of local network adaptor boards — from its parent , Fujitsu Ltd . |
| 16 | Readers of The Old Devils have asked : are its Welsh Welsh ? |
| 17 | Vanished are her healthy pink cheeks , her slightly red winter nose , her mole , her little freckles and blemishes : she is smooth , new made . |
| 18 | What matters — in addition to the importance of the priest as a symbol — are her particular pastoral and spiritual gifts , exactly as with a male priest . |
| 19 | The gang had been their usual high-spirited selves , they had joked about a bit , had some fun . |
| 20 | What has been their probable evolutionary course ? |
| 21 | The other argument for prescribing serotonin reuptake inhibitors has been their reported lower toxicity in overdose compared with some antidepressants . |
| 22 | After showering this morning she had brushed her lashes with mascara and that still remained , but the rosy lip-gloss , which had been her only other concession to cosmetics , was long gone . |
| 23 | ‘ And put a clean shirt on and polish up them shoes before you ask him , ’ had been her only subsequent worldly advice . |
| 24 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 25 | Since 1977 the main focus of British R&D into geothermal energy has been its so-called hot dry rocks project ( HDR ) , based at a disused granite mine in Cornwall . |
| 26 | In Italy , for instance , a unique aspect of the trade union movement has been its formal close ties to various political parties ( although somewhat weakened in recent years ) whereby there were as many union confederations as political persuasions . |
| 27 | And erm we got there and I says to my husband I says , oh , I says er , are you sure that tent 's safe ? |
| 28 | Merlyn said : ‘ Are you sure that 's what you 've found ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Are you sure that 's what you want , Nathan ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ A short walk ’ — are you sure that 's all ? ’ |