Example sentences of "[adj] be [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 2 | Why , then , did interest groups come into focus ; what was this new theory ; how adequately does this theory make sense of British politics ; are there alternative perspectives on the part played by interests and groups in British politics ; and how adequate are those perspectives ? |
| 3 | Some are more specialists than others . |
| 4 | The multiplication of life tenures , the scramble for reversions , and the attempt to make posts hereditary are all indications that offices were coming to be regarded as forms of property rather than as jobs to be done . |
| 5 | Chapters 1 — 2 Are these sentences true ( T ) or false ( F ) ? |
| 6 | ‘ How old were these kids ? ’ |
| 7 | How old were these children Nelly ? |
| 8 | Rather different were those heads who avoided not only confrontation but also contact , taking refuge in their office and resorting to memoranda rather than face-to-face encounters . |
| 9 | This is many times what he would earn as a university graduate in Bangladesh . |
| 10 | This is many orders of magnitude less than that of PSR1957+20 and probably about two orders of magnitude less than our best estimate for that of PSR1744–24A , although is unknown because of gravitational contamination by the cluster . |
| 11 | If he ( the magistrate ) is saying that everything is all right , than this is all lies . ’ |
| 12 | this is all things I 've got to consider when I 'm starting this thing |
| 13 | that 's the , this is this years ! |
| 14 | Subtly satirical of western gullibility towards ancient rituals and superstitions , this is several cuts above standard culture-clash fare . |
| 15 | The same meeting also approved the Conveyances of the land from the Bolney Estate Company and Mr K.K. McKenzie , and the Trustees were authorised to pay over the sums of £3,000 and £1,000 respectively ( this is several weeks after part of the course had been opened for play ! ) , and Mr J. C. Walker , the Treasurer , was asked to draw up some proposals for the Club 's bye-laws . |
| 16 | This is several days later . |
| 17 | This is those blokes used to live up here . |
| 18 | The upshot of all this is more problems for hard-stretched environmental departments — and more court cases that are decided unsatisfactorily , more on the whims of magistrates rather than on concise technical criteria . |
| 19 | While this is some ways a mercy , it nonetheless serves to accentuate the loss that she experiences . |
| 20 | You 'll see that at point five er there was very little change on the in the A sixty one flow er following the opening of the bypass this is some months er afterwards . |
| 21 | This is some orders of magnitude less than the primary bond energy and , as mentioned above , is responsible for the bulk modulus and bulk cohesion of the polymer . |
| 22 | Remember this was many years ago , so the magazine in question was a general craft magazine , not one especially written for machine knitting — those were very thin on the ground at that tine , in fact there was only one in this country . |
| 23 | This was many years ago now ab ten years ago I guess , so I went and saw and of course , erm Mr was dead and his son was running it and had sold his shares . |
| 24 | But but of course this was many years ago . |
| 25 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 26 | In an ensuing fight around Christmas time 1896 the police had swooped and arrested twenty-eight youths some of whom were found to be in possession of pistols , which was taken to link them to a young girl 's death — although this was some months later . |
| 27 | The following are all exercises in which you must look at phonetically transcribed material from different English accents , and decide on the best way to transcribe them phonemically . |
| 28 | However , having stated this , the following are some factors taken into consideration . |
| 29 | The following are some examples of important questions frequently asked about social policy which are essentially about the relationship between social and economic policy . |
| 30 | The following are some examples of the way expression priority can be used . |