Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing is water polo an Italian expression to describe business life : the fouls are done with the feet under the water where the umpire can not see them . ’ |
| 2 | Were the were the coles er would you talk about them being theekit |
| 3 | There are only two human species left and the only bond between them is hatred : the one that crushes and the one that refuses to be crushed " when he pointedly remarked : " In a world brutally divided into those who rule and those who serve , the philosopher must finally acknowledge a long-concealed secret alliance with those who govern or else declare his solidarity with those who are governed . |
| 4 | And former Tory chairman Lord Parkinson said the Prime Minister and Chancellor Kenneth Clarke would ‘ sink or swim together ’ , and talk of rivalry between them was nonsense . |
| 5 | Further research on renters and owners showed that the main difference between them was age . |
| 6 | Mental confusion can be assuaged in many ways , and one of the best ways for me is exercise . |
| 7 | The sticking point in faith for me was abnegation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The exercise has been a process of ‘ informed peer review ’ in which ratings have been made on the basis of the judgements of experts , most of whom are university academic staff . |
| 10 | TWO GREAT British pop institutions , both of whom are maverick enough to belong in an institution . |
| 11 | Sitting in Pat 's front room , surrounded by her nine Labradors , many of whom are rescue cases themselves , I asked Pat how the charity had been formed and what the situation was at present . |
| 12 | There are 118 members of the Red Cross in Darlington , 20 of whom are youth members , who are kept constantly busy . |
| 13 | Politically reliable officers : 97 per cent of whom are Party members in the GDR , 85 per cent in Poland . |
| 14 | Religion : Islam ( 95% at 1975 census , 70% of whom are Sunni ) ; Christianity and Hinduism . |
| 15 | Religion : Islam ( 95% at 1975 census , 70% of whom are Sunni ) ; Christianity and Hinduism . |
| 16 | They viewed two bodies of young girls , neither of whom was Pet . |
| 17 | Surprisingly , each of the opposing groups had their own skinhead supporters , most of whom were part of a skinhead revival . |
| 18 | Over 1,000,000 other expatriates lived in Kuwait , more than half of whom were south or south-east Asian . |
| 19 | Other policy issues that were observed and which need discussion and consideration included : the problem of sustaining confidence in the livestock market for those ( many of whom were family or part-time farmers ) who had no other enterprise options ; the need for an examination of the labour unit figure at present used in deciding eligibility for improvement grants with a view to its removal — those at present debarred from receiving grant ( because their unit is not big enough ) were unable to carry out improvements to develop the farm ; the case for considering what effect would be achieved by placing a limit ( e. g. 500 standard man days ) on the size of unit eligible for grant and guaranteed prices — such a limit might ensure the future of family units which were under economic pressure for amalgamation and growth of the size of units ; the need for assistance with the building of a second house to aid resettlement and hand-over problems . |
| 20 | Moreover , much of the work was methodologically flawed by small numbers of subjects , many of whom were hospital patients rather than healthy volunteers . |
| 21 | Early studies supporting this concept were done using suboptimal techniques on small numbers of subjects , most of whom were hospital inpatients or outpatients with a variety of medical conditions , rather than healthy asymptomatic subjects . |
| 22 | The two old men , neither of whom were football fans , had no idea how important the cargo was . |
| 23 | Foreign Minister Joaquín Ricardo García was quoted by local radio as saying on July 18 that a total of 13,000 Haitian citizens , most of whom were migrant workers , had left the country " in the last few days " , 2,000 of them forcibly repatriated and the rest having left " voluntarily " . |
| 24 | When I told my friends Bill Page and Bill Adams , both of whom were bus inspectors and the first of whom had been at Whitgift with me , they were astounded . |
| 25 | Spread out below them were Dingle Harbour and Ventry Bay , and to the west , beyond the sheer cliff of Slea Head , the Blasket Islands poked their treacherous black rocks up through a calm Atlantic . |
| 26 | " I know that a great part of me is darkness , not light . |
| 27 | All the scenes she made out of nothing were part of another , more insidious pleasure she was experiencing : she wanted to see how much punishment he would take , how long he would go on bowing his head . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's a lot of unpublished manuscripts — one of them 's Dad 's second novel . |
| 29 | We had a good ride — quite a hard one , I had difficulty keeping up , though towards the end they were getting noticably slower ! — and we were then invited to one of them 's house for breakfast . |
| 30 | Many of them are Link Schools , and a number of special schools are also included in the scheme . |