Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know like I say there is quite a lot of trust and erm I think Yona and me are sort of aware er we 're very much united in the feeling that we do n't we do n't want things to erm you know we want everybody to be involved and obviously different people have different things to offer . |
| 2 | KIDLINK is facilitated by professionals working in education at all levels , most of whom are specialists in information technology . |
| 3 | They provide over two point five million , three quarters of whom are women with protection , industries such as clothing and textiles , shops , hairdressers , and leisure services are all protected by the Councils . |
| 4 | Having recognized that , we must avoid the danger of maintaining paraprofessionals ( most of whom are women and many of whom are members of disadvantaged minority groups ) in marginal positions in society by locking them into low-status and low-paying jobs . |
| 5 | The players , both of whom are members of the LTA 's Laing Squad , are pupils at the Rover School at Bisham Abbey . |
| 6 | One of the Woolwich 's surveyors , all of whom are members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , or the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , or an approved surveyor nominated by the society . |
| 7 | I ask the Minister to do one more thing for those millions of families , many of whom are part of that 250,000 who are more than six months in arrears with their mortgage repayments , who fear that their homes will be taken from them and who have paid the poll tax . |
| 8 | I find it stimulating to air ideas with a variety of people , many of whom are experts in their field . ’ |
| 9 | ABPC has been formed to take over from the project 's original partners , Total , Petrofina , LASMO , Inpex and the Syrian Petroleum Company — all of whom are shareholders in the new organisation . |
| 10 | The coloured lads , most of whom are Muslims of Pakistani origin , are accepted as part of the local scene . |
| 11 | Under the provisions of the 1990 Constitution , Nepal is a constitutional monarchy , with a bicameral legislature , comprising a 205-member House of Representatives ( Pratinidhi Sabha ) , elected on the basis of adult franchise , and a 60-member National Council ( Rashtriya Sabha ) , 10 of whom are nominees of the King , 35 ( including three women ) are elected by the House of Representatives , and 15 are elected by an electoral college . |
| 12 | Five boys and three girls all of whom are pupils at King William College at Castletown on the island were on the canoeing trip . |
| 13 | Five boys and three girls , all of whom are pupils at King William College at Castletown on the island , were on the canoeing trip . |
| 14 | The three Heavenly groups , all of whom are fans of the chart-topping group , were inspired to record ‘ The Fred EP ’ after Flowered Up covered ‘ Do n't Talk Just Kiss ’ for a Channel 4 music TV pilot show . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that all those involved in the work on the power station , many of whom are constituents of mine , deserve great credit for the fact that it is proceeding so well ? |
| 16 | In fact , one in three new ventures in the USA is started by people under thirty — the majority of whom are graduates in their early twenties . |
| 17 | At the moment , less than 10 per cent of S&N 's senior managers are women , but none of them are directors of any of the subsidiaries , let alone of the main board . |
| 18 | Among them are problems of air and water quality and waste in rapidly expanding third world cities . |
| 19 | The other teenagers he meets there are mainly criminals — thieves , prostitutes and drug pedlars — and most of them are members of the infamous teenage gangs which sometimes turn the city into a battleground . |
| 20 | Many of the publishers I have mentioned sell a wide range of social stationery ; not all of them are specialists in the fine art field . |
| 21 | Between them are gaps about a foot wide and six inches deep . |
| 22 | Among them are sketches of objects and copies of inscriptions made by Howard Carter of items from Lord Carnarvon 's collection ; facsimiles of reliefs ; drawings of animals and birds copied from hieroglyphics and set alongside living counterparts ; Carter 's map of the Valley of the Kings used in the search for Tutankhamun 's tomb ; and record cards and sketches of the objects from the tomb itself . |
| 23 | These particles , this particular matter is generally given the sort of generic term seston some of those particles are mineral particles some of them are colloidal aggregates as the iron tends , iron , iron , ions tend to come together to form colloids in solution and some of them are particles of biological origin . |
| 24 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 25 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 26 | The performance revolves round rows of hissingly-hot pressure cookers , which are brought to the point of pressure ; suspended above them are boxes of ice , with nails and bits and pieces , which drop on to the pressure cooker lids as the ice melts . |
| 27 | Two thirds of them are inbreedings of one kind or another , several twice over . |
| 28 | I think she felt wi , you know , some of them are sort of like , a bit unimportant . |
| 29 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 30 | Most notable amongst them are methods of database management and statistical processing . |