Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demolition work has been postponed indefinitely and tonight thee are new moves to give the building protected status . |
| 2 | Thee are two genera present in the North Atlantic abyssal : Asteroschema Orsted & Lütken , 1856 , which is densely covered with granules and has a small ill-defined disk , and Ophiocreas Lyman , 1879 , which is covered mainly by skin although the disk has a light covering of small granules and the disk is slightly larger and more distinct . |
| 3 | Thee are excellent facilities for children , with a kindergarten and a kid 's playground in the Kurpark . |
| 4 | Thee are 9 arm spines proximally , 7–8 distally in large specimens , 6–8 on smaller ones . |
| 5 | Not for nothing are black holes called black . |
| 6 | I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men . |
| 7 | ‘ The rumours of a reconciliation between James and me are absolute balls , ’ Becky said . |
| 8 | In rural areas the poor , many of whom are agricultural workers , are harnessed to their jobs through their housing , under the system of tied cottages . |
| 9 | To make sure that the job was done properly , Mr Lobov appointed three new deputy ministers , two of whom are former deputy chairmen of Gosplan , the Soviet central-planning agency . |
| 10 | IMS has already started to recruit engineers for the Livingston operation , many of whom are former Ferranti employees . |
| 11 | Before the Secretary of State sets sail to be Governor of Hong Kong , will he exercise his subtle and calming qualities on behalf of the 5,500 British expatriates , many of whom are Scots engineers working in the oil industry in Libya ? |
| 12 | Ranch meals are invariably big and hearty , and the smaller the ranch the more likely it is you 'll be sitting down to eat with the wranglers , many of whom are great characters . |
| 13 | The questions were raised in proceedings brought against the Secretary of State for Transport by Factortame Ltd. and other companies incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom , and also the directors and shareholders of those companies , most of whom are Spanish nationals ( hereinafter together referred to as ‘ the applicants in the main proceedings ’ ) . |
| 14 | Tribunals consist of a lawyer chairman , many of whom are full-time appointments , sitting with two lay members , one representing employers and one employees . |
| 15 | The limitation of the right to asylum does nothing to improve the status of 6.5m foreigners already in Germany , most of whom are long-time residents . |
| 16 | It is his show in Paris which attracts hoards of fans ( some of whom are hardened fashion journalists ) all keen to catch the first glimpse of Thierry 's latest creations . |
| 17 | In that task I am assisted by a team of six managers , all of whom are professional nurses and district nurses or health visitors and they of course are there to advise me on professional issues , and to share with me the management task of using the resources of Oxford City in the way that we feel is best appropriate , and in doing that , I think one of the important things for us to do , I do n't think we do it quite as well as we should , is to work more closely with the local council , and to look really at what the needs of our local communities are for health , and to try and make sure that the feelings that might well be expressed by individuals , either individually , or through caring associations , or through other statutory agencies , or through voluntary health organisations , are actually given a chance to be there , and to influence our , that official policy and constituents , and to , to influence the planning process . |
| 18 | About 17 per cent of all families with children are now headed by a lone parent , nine in ten of whom are lone mothers . |
| 19 | Her husband dies in a car accident alongside another woman and driven by grief and jealousy , she investigates his secret life and becomes entangled with a rather nasty mystic group , some of whom are 400 years old and tend to drop rotting flesh and eyeballs on the carpet . |
| 20 | They were Mr Gilbert , sound recordist Peter Edwards and cameraman Philip Bonham-Carter , both of whom are independent film-makers and have worked on the broadcast before . |
| 21 | It includes the major owners of the means of production , company directors , top managers , higher professionals and senior civil servants , many of whom are large shareholders in private industry . |
| 22 | A ring is an arrangement whereby several dealers all of whom are interested I in a given item agree not to compete in outbidding each other at the public auction but instead to allow one of their number to buy it as cheaply as possible . |
| 23 | There are now over 16,000 people who have graduated from the University of Stirling , all of whom are potential members . |
| 24 | Over time , a comprehensive mailing list of nurses can be constructed , all of whom are potential recruits . |
| 25 | OLIVER said that words like everyone and someone and no-one are singular pronouns and must therefore be followed by the singular possessive pronoun , namely his . |
| 26 | And if Graham Taylor sticks with the Wright-Shearer partnership , England wo n't go far wrong in their World Cup qualifying group because both of them are international class . |
| 27 | Many of them are powerful gringo media barons . |
| 28 | In the terms discussed in Chapter 2 during our reinterpretation of the Chicago School , these groups convert certain districts in what for them are front regions . |
| 29 | Some of them are absolute rubbish some of them are very very very good . |
| 30 | Too many of them are visual firework displays without an emotional centre , or a coherent narrative structure . |