Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm worried about the effects they have on society , because a high proportion of them are emotional messes whose principal driving emotion is envy . |
| 2 | Most of them are poor people who give their services to their neighbours and communities for little or no charge . |
| 3 | But some of them are bad-tempered ratbags who should be locked away in a cellar with a lot of other feminists . |
| 4 | ‘ Most of them are 16-year-old Kiwis who have n't an idea how to pull a decent pint of Guinness . ’ |
| 5 | The Ford deal was accepted by most Aston owners ‘ with a surprising degree of sympathy , ’ says Gauntlett , ‘ largely , I suppose , because a majority of them are independent businessmen themselves , and understood the necessity . ’ |
| 6 | Many of them were local tradesmen who supplemented their living by acting as petty rural landlords . |
| 7 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |
| 8 | Standing close behind me is old Frank who is deaf and keeps shouting ‘ Amen ’ for no reason ( except maybe the threat of redundancy ) . |
| 9 | The only people who seem to get put through to him are little girls who want ponies for Christmas and wives who want their husbands dead . ’ |
| 10 | No doubt there are a few places where Stornoway citizens get drunk at Sunday lunchtime , indeed , there are quite a few of them , but their doors are shut to the public ; sin goes private on the Sabbath for it is public morality which counts in Sabbath observance . |
| 11 | ‘ Among them were rich aristocrats who would have had the same fine dental work with gold fillings seen in these so-called remains of the Imperial family . |