Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result , both in some sectors where there are producers who are purely home-based and others who are foreign-based , and in whole states , is a political tug-of-war to define the ‘ cow ’ according to either the stay-at-home or to the go-abroad interests . |
| 2 | Charity accounting is going through a period of rapid and far-reaching change as accountants with charity clients or who are trustees themselves come to terms with the new regulatory procedures introduced by the Charities Act 1992 and the impact of the new SORP2 regulations . |
| 3 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 4 | The recognition that there are authors who have not traditionally formed part of the literary ‘ canon ’ in the past may also lead to discussion about present-day social inequalities . |
| 5 | The reason why this specific condition is not regarded as repeated is that it is incompatible with the condition to which the substitution is subject : the substitutes are to be admitted if no children are born to the testator or if any born die before puberty , whereas the manumission is subject to the condition that there are children who are still alive at puberty . |
| 6 | There were two key components to this , there were things that er were labelled feature demons and there were things which were labelled cognitive demons . |
| 7 | In the heat of a sultry evening , Britain had the fitness and the heart to outlast the clever Koreans and it was Sixsmith who got the winner , poaching in the area after the ball had pinballed around from a short corner . |
| 8 | Ironically Leicester are heading for the top using Brian Clough 's style of passing football and it 's Forest who are reverting to more of the long ball game . |
| 9 | There are addicts and there are people who just use the stuff occasionally . ’ |
| 10 | The fans had come for goals and it was Pompey who nearly supplied the first . |
| 11 | Charlie made no reply and it was Jack who said , ‘ Why , have you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That wo n't do you any good if it 's escape you 're looking for . ’ |
| 13 | Morland said today : ’ The city fully expects us to survive the bid and we are confidant we will still be drinking Old Speckled Hen Beer on Friday . ’ |
| 14 | In practice if there are beneficiaries who are capable of being consulted , it 's likely that one will say to those beneficiaries Right we need to raise some money , there 's only the shares to do it with , we 're proposing to sell them do you agree with that or would you prefer to have the shares and gives us some money ? |
| 15 | If Niki had sought to impress Prost with a victory at the very start of the season , the ploy did n't work : an improperly soldered battery cable put him out of action and it was Prost who impressed . |
| 16 | It was considered so repulsive by Queen Victoria that there are suggestions she actually allowed it to be stolen . |
| 17 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 18 | The Times hypothesised in the course of the election campaign that it was leaders who lost elections , not challengers who won them . |
| 19 | " There are teachers who do whole group work and there are others who do small group work , and their approach is very different . " |
| 20 | ‘ I said to Bernie if they were mine I 'd want to take them inside on a night . |
| 21 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 22 | He lost the leadership of Leeds to Ellery Hanley and it was Hanley who was made skipper of Great Britain in Australia this summer . |
| 23 | Let's face it , she 's a very attractive girl and it 's time she was married . ’ |
| 24 | Wright continued to dazzle Ipswich in the second half but it was Campbell who completed a brilliant hat-trick . |
| 25 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 26 | Cambridge United and Middlesbrough were unable to break the deadlock in the first half of their match , but Taylor gave Cambridge the lead after sixty seven minutes and it was Taylor who made it two nil fifteen minutes from time to give Cambridge a memorable victory . |
| 27 | They were tactful in avoiding any reference to the case and it was Wycliffe who , mellowed by good food and a couple of glasses of Burgundy , brought it up . |
| 28 | Well it 's gon na , mm , yeah , well it 's not pastry cos it 's flour I think we 've mixed it really , I know what you mean , we are going to tip it out of the ooh |
| 29 | Mr Pincher , though , is only the ghost writer and it 's Dido who 's grabbing the headlines . |
| 30 | ‘ People look for new ways to supplement their income and it is employers who feel the pinch . ’ |