Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examples at Kaupanger ( Sognfjord ) , built c. 1200 but rebuilt in 1862 , and at Fantoft , near Bergen are simpler but also of considerable interest . |
| 2 | However , where , as in the present case , there is an injunction in force , it seems to me that Mr. Langley and Mr. Philipson are right in saying that it is open to the court to consider the issue of validity , since , if the notice were indeed invalid , it could not override the injunction or give grounds for a variation . |
| 3 | He mentioned that he sought advice from ‘ the masters ’ for particularly scientific sections , and Boerhaave , Boyle , Blair , Grew , Halley , Hales and Newton are all acknowledged in the text . |
| 4 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 5 | Pa and Ma are both vegans . |
| 6 | Bath , Bristol , Stratford-upon-Avon , Oxford and the Forest of Dean are all easily reached for day trips . |
| 7 | ZOLA Budd-Pieterse of South Africa and Mary Decker Slaney are likely to compete against each other later this year . |
| 8 | Deftly turning the conversation , she said , ‘ Betty tells me the village people are very intrigued by the two veterinary practices here , and Joanna would n't be too pleased if she knew that they are firmly under the impression that you only do small animals and Robert and Ian are large-animal vets . ’ |
| 9 | ST HELENS are ready to welcome back centre Gary Connolly for the top Regal Trophy tie , against Leeds at Knowsley Road on Sunday . |
| 10 | But some commentators believe that it may also be because , unlike other cartel kingpins , Escobar and Rodriguez Gacha are social upstarts who have clawed their way out of the gutter . |
| 11 | Although many people in Esarn are poor , most have the bare necessities . |
| 12 | The results from PCR are consistent with those from cytogenetic and antibiotic studies . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , sheep owners like Charlie Huckerby are worried about safety for their animals and fear more attacks could happen . |
| 14 | The tin mines at Bom Futuro in the Brazilian Amazon near the border with Bolivia are open again . |
| 15 | Nitric oxide levels in Moscow are five times above the national average , and levels of ammonia and methylene oxides one and half times the national average . |
| 16 | SPARTAK MOSCOW are ready to throw up a Russian wall of defiance to end Liverpool 's European dream at Anfield tonight . |
| 17 | SPARTAK MOSCOW are ready to throw up a Russian wall of defiance to end Liverpool 's European dream at Anfield tonight . |
| 18 | ‘ But fortunately , ’ she continued quickly , ‘ the rest of the Grenfells are honest , upright citizens . ’ |
| 19 | RISCs are reliable and free from design errors , whereas with increasing complexity design errors are becoming more and more frequent among CISCs . |
| 20 | Freddie Fox , Graham Smith and Phillip Somerville are great individualists who between them dress the heads of the entire Royal Family , among countless other notables . |
| 21 | Vallance said further that ‘ the chances that British Telecom would enter into Eunetcom or Infonet are slender ’ because of the diminished returns in a joint venture with too many partners . |
| 22 | Silksworth professional Keith Trotter is off to a good start while Houghton are thankful that they injury to Neil Bainbridge is not as serious as first thought . |
| 23 | Peter Judson , Derek Middleton and Len Houghton are all injured , while Dave Stoker returns in goal . |
| 24 | NOT even the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen are immune from political correctness . |
| 25 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 26 | The fells around Baldersdale are dangerous places , full of hidden ghylls — deep water holes — and moss bogs which can swallow a man whole . |
| 27 | Jonathan Davies and Barry Williams have been ruled out but Paul Moriarty and Kevin Ellis are likely to be fit . |
| 28 | Black Diamond ( Chouinard as was ) , Beal and Edelrid are all producing harnesses specifically designed with larger leg loops for women . |
| 29 | The winters of Kislev are savage , merciless and cruelly and long . |
| 30 | It could be argued , therefore , that the conditions for an exchange rate union between Germany and the Netherlands are satisfied and , consequently , should observe the de facto monetary union of the two countries . |