Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldersdale is an empty place now and all that remains for me are memories , sweet memories . |
| 2 | And although the Tude has plants in its waters , I am reluctant to believe that any of them are lilies ; for Chalais has suffered from the twentieth century as Aubeterre has not , and the Tude is polluted whereas the Dronne runs clear . |
| 3 | I am told , ’ and here she became confidential , ‘ many among them are perverts ! ’ |
| 4 | Among them are muons , negatively charged particles similar to electrons in all respects but for the fact that they are unstable and are 207 times heavier ; they are in effect ‘ heavy electrons ’ and can replace electrons in atoms to make ‘ muonic atoms ’ . |
| 5 | Warwick Castle gets about forty percent of visitors from overseas with whom a large proportion are Americans , and er I suggest that the increase in Americans this year will be quite good compared with figures for last year , so we do benefit er I might even mention that in Holland er over half the visitors Exhibition in Amsterdam are not Dutch , many of them are Germans , but there are also Americans and of course other overseas visitors there . |
| 6 | Three of them are adults , but rumours that they may be Bosnian soldiers have been dismissed as irrelevent . |
| 7 | I 've learnt about 60 I suppose overall and half of them are duds naughty words or words for something completely different . |
| 8 | At the moment , less than 10 per cent of S&N 's senior managers are women , but none of them are directors of any of the subsidiaries , let alone of the main board . |
| 9 | Chief among them are signs and fascias , which have changed the appearance of Europe 's streets and shopping malls ; baths and sanitary ware [ a fast-growing market which ICI pioneered and now dominates ] ; glazing [ including aircraft glazing ] ; and domelights . |
| 10 | Forty per cent of them are women , and many are Northerners . |
| 11 | More than 46,000 people in England and Wales suffer hip fractures each year — 60 per cent of them are women aged at least 75 . |
| 12 | For instance you 've got a , you 've got er staff here , half of them are women , would that be the same situation in schools in there ? |
| 13 | Statistically , half of them are women , and that third of the world 's population is only now beginning to feel that they have a say in the running of their lives . |
| 14 | A big proportion of them are women . |
| 15 | I wonder if most of them are women ? |
| 16 | It is interesting to note , in passing , that most of them are questions that have to be asked of primary data as well . |
| 17 | Most of them are soldiers now . ’ |
| 18 | Yes , most of them are mums . |
| 19 | When we are talking about directors of businesses , er particularly the larger companies , good people are hard to find and some of them are superstars , and er I know we 've heard a lot about er exceedingly high levels of pay and very high pay increases , er but when you talk about the superstars and megastars , what about the entertainment business , what about sport , what about , you know , golfing celebrities , earning in excess of a million , or racing drivers ? |
| 20 | Although both sides say that they want peace , innocent civilians are being slaughtered , their economies are being ruined , more than 400,000 of them are refugees and homeless and Dubrovnik , that jewel of the Adriatic , faces destruction . |
| 21 | In Westminster we have a large African community and a lot of them are refugees . |
| 22 | Among them are problems of air and water quality and waste in rapidly expanding third world cities . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Many of them are ex-socialists and their green wellies have red linings . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ All of them are groups who work together on specific tasks under a single section head or foreman . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |