Example sentences of "[pron] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Highlights for me are the duets with the Chick Corea on Liza , Someday my Prince will come and the Hancock ‘ standard ’ , Maiden Voyage ; the interplay and mutual understanding on show here is astounding . |
| 2 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
| 3 | I mean , people like me are the sort he expects to end up in the nick , not blokes he 'd invite to one of his do 's . |
| 4 | in whom are the voices , keeping hand on the reins |
| 5 | The females , some of whom are the size of a dustbin lid , lay their eggs in the sand under about 18 in ( 45 cm ) of water . |
| 6 | All around them are the forestastes of the Europeannesswhich , even if they do n't opt for it , is certainly the one they are going to get . |
| 7 | Among them are the Tim Burton-produced Family Dog , the ‘ fish noir ’ ( really ) Fish Police from Hanna Barbera , and the Whitehouse-set satire Aristocritters from Steven Hill Street Blues Bucho |
| 8 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 9 | Above them are the Doctors of the Church and some wonderful vases . |
| 10 | All chintz curtains and birdcages in the windows , many of them are the homes of old railwaymen who sit by the fire , dreaming of Gresley Pacifics and Stanier Jubilees . |
| 11 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 12 | The latter measures are much more difficult to obtain , and relationships between them are the subject of this chapter . |
| 13 | Among them are the India Mark II , Britain 's Consallen , the Madzi pump ( a modified version of the Zimbabwean Blair pump ) and also the lesser-known but very promising Malawi handpump . |
| 14 | Whatever your Dreams , the steps towards achieving them are the same . |
| 15 | Below them are the fuel cock levers , and ahead of them are the emergency undercarriage buttons and extend/retract knob for alternate airbrake operation . |
| 16 | Below them are the fuel cock levers , and ahead of them are the emergency undercarriage buttons and extend/retract knob for alternate airbrake operation . |
| 17 | It is this that bears on my father 's second question-how to contain the uncontainable : producing these extremes and then controlling and containing them are the problems . |
| 18 | Our eyes and the area around them are the most expressive and sensitive part of our face and during the winter months need more protection than ever . |
| 19 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 20 | Musicians and artists to them are the same as tramps and winos , whereas , in a place like Germany , musicians are respected for their occupation . ’ |
| 21 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 23 | Beyond them are the also-rans , other disaffected characters , who were on the receiving end of tempting , exciting , ego-boosting telephone calls which were never subsequently followed up , from headhunters of whom they never heard anything again . |
| 24 | These being the conventions whose occurrence is so regular that we barely notice them , the exceptions to them are the more striking . |
| 25 | Among them are the four remaining pictures shown by Betty Parsons , whose checklist notes seventeen works , the complete set of five White Paintings conceived in 1951 and recreated , under Rauschenberg 's instructions , by Brice Marden in 1968 , twelve Black Paintings , three gold leaf paintings , fifteen collages created in Rome and North Africa in the last months of 1952 , and thirteen box sculptures incorporating stones , thorns , an insect and other material . |
| 26 | The variation in name appears to be the major difference between the two types of minor authorities : the functions allocated to them are the same . |
| 27 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 28 | Foremost among them are the Queen and the class bully . |
| 29 | Amongst them are the last great wild gardens of the earth still harbouring uncatalogued varieties of creatures and man . |
| 30 | At any instant , three of them are the current required settings of the three motors ; three are the previous required settings , a third of a second earlier ; three are the required settings a third of a second before then ; and so on . |