Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are mostly Ryes from Moor . |
| 2 | The aluminium is corrosion resistant , giving it a long life and our systems are made to BS 2997 and are mostly BBA approved . |
| 3 | The sheep here are mostly Herdwicks and run on Holme Fell . |
| 4 | Had it been only Ben he had seen , or had he been able to look out , however briefly , on the world of the future ; her world ? |
| 5 | For the time being I am all Rose 's property . ’ |
| 6 | The briefest of smiles took flight from her lips to her eyes , and away , leaving her portentously grave again ; and with careful , frowning concentration she said in English , her bright , light , child 's voice forming the words as gingerly as a novice using an untried weapon : ‘ Oh , no — I am only Catherine . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So why do you call me Sir John , when I am only John Durbeyfield ? ’ |
| 8 | Nothing could shake the steadiness of such men as Hugh Waterton or John Norbury , who had been in his service from the time when he had been merely Henry of Bolingbroke , earl of Derby , and even that title borrowed by courtesy from his father . |
| 9 | My dad says there are really good routes worth doing that are only V.Diff and that 's all he ever wants to take me up , but I just do n't want to know . |
| 10 | Critics might say the charters are merely PR exercises for pledges which should already be standard requirements of the health service . |
| 11 | When other staff are away Margaret appears to be left keeping the ship afloat by answering messages , doing jobs that are not really hers , and by the end of most days she is usually totally exhausted . |
| 12 | Lear was also subject at the hands of his employer to even more glaring misacknowledgements : in what could generously be described as an insensitive oversight , four of the plates in Birds , are referred to at the bottom of the page as being ‘ drawn from Nature and on Stone by J & E Gould ’ , while the style of the bird and the signature on the drawing itself are patently Lear 's . |
| 13 | Niskanen ( 1973 ) is probably the best-known proponent of public choice theory in the analysis of state bureaucracy , and a summary of his arguments , which are largely United States based , was presented to UK policy-makers through the Institute of Economic Affairs , a leading ‘ think-tank ’ devoted to spreading the message of economic liberalism and reform of the state . |
| 14 | She surely knows that you are already Claudine 's lover . |
| 15 | Whether these are already USL shareholders or newcomers is still unclear . |
| 16 | The BNFL Group Membership scheme is also open to staff who are already AA members or members of other motoring organisations . |
| 17 | Gratuitous responses — whether they be wondrous or scathing — are already de rigueur at their shows . |
| 18 | Seven million are already HIV infected in sub-Saharan Africa , increasing by over one million a year . |
| 19 | If you 're wondering , the computer FX are just Tron crossed with 2001 and a dash of fractal soup |
| 20 | ‘ Rochdale are just Mickey Mouse compared with Liverpool . ’ |
| 21 | shirts even if they 're only Marks & Sparks . |
| 22 | They 're all December . |
| 23 | They 're all Leighs . |
| 24 | WE 'RE JUST DANDY |
| 25 | Stefan you 're exactly Isobel 's age , are you ? |
| 26 | You 're still Pascoe — and that 'll be how she found you phone book , nothing simpler . |
| 27 | Seconds but , they 're still Marks ' socks are n't they ? |
| 28 | I see they 're still Saddam Hussein 's still flipping messing about as well . |
| 29 | But yer average Carter , The Wedding Present — they have n't made enough money to say f— off , they 're still Joe Blow … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You 're a liar and a hypocrite , that you 're also Garry 's discarded lover does n't absolve you from the guilt of taking him from Berenice in the first place . ’ |