Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could , I could go and I could go and take if there 's , you know , if they have n't , no nothing awful 's to them I could go and take some pics of those . |
| 2 | Thus , in England and Wales in 1971 there were 311,000 students in advanced further education , of whom 204,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including 113,000 on initial teacher training , and 107,000 on part-time courses . |
| 3 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 4 | It 's me that 's in the wrong now . |
| 5 | Even when it was me that was in the wrong , you 'd always blame her … punish her … shut her away in the cellar or the attic . |
| 6 | There are nineteen full-time care staff of whom eleven are on duty in the evenings and Mr has asked for a further eleven full-time care staff , he hopes in due course to be able to have seventeen such staff on duty at any one time . |
| 7 | Do n't need two bags of them that 's for certain . |
| 8 | This , it seems to me , is a them that is of abiding significance , because we all of us do things for the wrong reasons , and yet it 's all rather magnificently tied up with the attempt to build a glorious spire to a medieval cathedral . |
| 9 | In 1988 the group had 8,000 employees , of whom 500 were outside France . |
| 10 | Right planners , now according to me this is for Thursday , next Thursday week t week one Thursday so homework for Thursday finish writing a list er whoever 's giggling will you calm down of things you believe are important do this in rough and I think we 'd better underline the next bit , bring it to the lesson now , quite seriously if you have only managed to get five or six items at the moment on your list that you think are important , that 's not enough , you really do need to be going for a minimum of ten , and if you ca n't then the next piece of work that we 're going to do in the lesson next week is going to be quite difficult . |
| 11 | The 2,250 people employed two years ago have been cut to about 1,000 , of whom 300 are on ‘ short-time working with nil hours ’ ; the workforce will be down to 600 by December . |
| 12 | They had an in , an in and out shop of where they used to recondition the engines er and er I that 's about all er . |
| 13 | My ambition is to do teacher training when my youngest is at school full-time . |
| 14 | My second 's in BROWN COAT for which I 'm renowned . |
| 15 | When you 're out , it 's important to know someone trustworthy is at home caring for your children . |
| 16 | I did my best , Miguel , but how can my best be worth anything , when the qualified doctor is n't anywhere to be found , and the patient refuses to be moved ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My earliest memory of my father is of him galloping down a field ; my last is of him reaching out to me like a helpless kitten ’ |
| 18 | He was responsible for over 3,000 locomotives , some 9,000 carriages , and 80,000 wagons , in addition to a total staff of some 27,000 , of whom 12,000 were at Swindon . |
| 19 | Right-wing social democrats drew the conclusion that material advances could be won indefinitely and therefore nothing extra was to be gained by open class struggle . |
| 20 | How many tanks do you own ? 210 of which 180 are in use at the moment . |
| 21 | you know , because they do n't know what their right are with And you know , I think places like the law centre , which fight for the rights of people in , you know to develop that that kind of service for people . |
| 22 | Nearly half the agency workers are working in the banking , finance and business services sector , although this might be a consequence of that sector being the one in which employment agencies/business are located , and another fifth are in " other services " , of which half are in medical and health services . |
| 23 | Likewise , when he secured a thirty-mark annual pension from the church of Wigan , he assigned ten marks to the fabric fund of the cathedral and twenty marks to the sacrist , of which half was to be assigned to six boys appointed by the bishop . |
| 24 | On July 16 it was officially announced that the consortium had offered US$260,000,000 in cash ( of which half was to be paid immediately and the remainder over 10 months ) in addition to US$2,000 million in a debt-for-equity exchange , comprising US$1,600 million in Argentine debt principal and $400,000,000 in outstanding interest on that debt . |
| 25 | The Sverdlov-class of cruiser , of which 22 were to be built , was an extremely versatile type of warship . |
| 26 | Whilst each side recognized the growing demand of the Korean people for reunification , the means through which this was to be achieved remained elusive . |
| 27 | Mental handicap can be caused by a wide range of medical , social and environmental factors , of which some are to an extent preventable . |
| 28 | Small in comparison to major fairs such as Basel , it is however the leading Asian fair and this year included ninety-one galleries of which fifty-nine were from outside Japan ( nine less foreign galleries than in 1992 ) . |
| 29 | Louis Bizat , the Palace 's present general manager , says : " When it burned down I received , within eight days , over 200 telegrams , of which 190 were from abroad , from places as far apart as Canada , Hong Kong , the States , Australia , all expressing their sorrow that this had happened . |
| 30 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |