Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In Westminster we have a large African community and a lot of them are refugees . |
| 32 | Among them are problems of air and water quality and waste in rapidly expanding third world cities . |
| 33 | The other teenagers he meets there are mainly criminals — thieves , prostitutes and drug pedlars — and most of them are members of the infamous teenage gangs which sometimes turn the city into a battleground . |
| 34 | While they are on view he hopes to establish which of the pendants are genuine , which of them are fakes and what are the distinguishing factors . |
| 35 | Many of them are ex-socialists and their green wellies have red linings . |
| 36 | In Hailey Wood large mounds of earth with beech growing on them are spoil-heaps where shafts were driven in the course of building to provide air vents . |
| 37 | Many of the publishers I have mentioned sell a wide range of social stationery ; not all of them are specialists in the fine art field . |
| 38 | ‘ All of them are groups who work together on specific tasks under a single section head or foreman . |
| 39 | ‘ HE has tasted all the bread in the sandwiches and approved the menu although he ca n't try all the fillings because some of them are meat and he is vegetarian ’ — Laurence Myers on the opening of Gary Glitter 's sandwich bar . |
| 40 | Their work also confirmed what had long been suspected : which is that the majority of creatures on Earth are insects , and most of them are beetles . |
| 41 | Most of them are sandstones or limestones that were laid down at the bottom of the shallow seas that once covered this part of North America . |
| 42 | Between them are gaps about a foot wide and six inches deep . |
| 43 | All of them are shit and rubbish recording . |
| 44 | Among them are sketches of objects and copies of inscriptions made by Howard Carter of items from Lord Carnarvon 's collection ; facsimiles of reliefs ; drawings of animals and birds copied from hieroglyphics and set alongside living counterparts ; Carter 's map of the Valley of the Kings used in the search for Tutankhamun 's tomb ; and record cards and sketches of the objects from the tomb itself . |
| 45 | So I was going to rummage through these slides and we do n't have them , erm so I 'll have to , I 'll hand the , the , the book around in just one minute , erm the poems that I 'm going to read to you , very few of them are actually complete , most of them are sketches erm ideas and images of erm , that I 've got , I 've , I 've got them from the paintings . |
| 46 | Unfortunately not all boundaries are comprised of conductors ; some of them are dielectrics , and even worse we have to consider sometimes imperfect dielectrics that have a finite conductivity . |
| 47 | These particles , this particular matter is generally given the sort of generic term seston some of those particles are mineral particles some of them are colloidal aggregates as the iron tends , iron , iron , ions tend to come together to form colloids in solution and some of them are particles of biological origin . |
| 48 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 49 | What it has given them are initiatives such as the bond scheme , a move to generate cash by a one-off payment , guaranteeing the right to buy a season ticket for life . |
| 50 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 51 | Many of them are pioneers , characteristic of early successional sequences elsewhere , and are well adapted for long-distance dispersal , so that under isolated circumstances such pioneers can form ‘ mature ’ communities , even though the level of disturbance is low . |
| 52 | Many of them are Link Schools , and a number of special schools are also included in the scheme . |
| 53 | Most of them are ex-soldiers , many from the Afghan campaign , who have not settled back into civilian life . |
| 54 | Among them are Joseph Raffael , Don Eddy , John Okulick , Juan Gonzalez , Peter Plagens — the list is long . |
| 55 | The streets round about are a meat market ; couples rent by the half-hour — I do n't think many of them are man and wife . ’ |
| 56 | Among them are Alan Peacock , Len Shackleton , Stan Anderson and Bobby Kerr . |
| 57 | Do you think some of them are ones which genuinely religious people would not adopt ? |
| 58 | For a start , right , erm all her clothes then right and I mean loads of them are ones they 're really horrible like but she just hangs them here , I thought well you ca n't wear them , you know , all horrible , you do n't wear them fold them , put them away |
| 59 | Half of them are Morton , half of them are English and the other half are Irish , so erm we have our own little family little battles as to who 's supporting who in football matches and stuff like that . |
| 60 | There must be some question as to how reliable the East German troops would be in such a situation , bearing in mind that most of them are conscripts , and that about 30,000 of them have recently been released from military service to man understaffed factories . |