Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Baldersdale is an empty place now and all that remains for me are memories , sweet memories .
2 Other non-Leeds players who have impressed me are Terry McDermott when with Liverpool in late 70 's and Jeremy Goss of Norwich this season .
3 ‘ The Cancer Man and all these fine people with me are cancer people , particularly Nancy .
4 You know like I say there is quite a lot of trust and erm I think Yona and me are sort of aware er we 're very much united in the feeling that we do n't we do n't want things to erm you know we want everybody to be involved and obviously different people have different things to offer .
5 It 's got ta start somewhere , there 's a motion , a tide of feeling going across the country on council from council , it wo n't be long before people like me are M P's and others around you that are M P's are in the
6 Programmed visits , yes , I think they 'll have been debt inspections that have carried out , whereas the higher figures above them are audit , and these are the ones that take more time , and are programmed to deal with everything , you know .
7 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 .
8 Most notable amongst them are Mark Tompkins 's Great Voltigeur winner Bob 's Return and John Dunlop 's Geoffrey Freer Stakes hero Azzilfi .
9 I am told , ’ and here she became confidential , ‘ many among them are perverts ! ’
10 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 ’ .
11 Few Washingtonians talk like this , perhaps because few of them are Yankee patrician war heroes , perhaps because politics has rubbed the gleam off them .
12 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 .
13 Three of them are adults , but rumours that they may be Bosnian soldiers have been dismissed as irrelevent .
14 I 've learnt about 60 I suppose overall and half of them are duds naughty words or words for something completely different .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 No , a lot of them are Poole then are they ?
18 Forty per cent of them are women , and many are Northerners .
19 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 .
20 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 ?
21 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 .
22 A big proportion of them are women .
23 I wonder if most of them are women ?
24 so most of them are London Gatwick or Manchester .
25 It is interesting to note , in passing , that most of them are questions that have to be asked of primary data as well .
26 Most of them are soldiers now . ’
27 Yes , most of them are mums .
28 Talking to them are Dr John Stewart and Dr Jimmy Young .
29 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 ?
30 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 .
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