Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 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 .
3 Among them are problems of air and water quality and waste in rapidly expanding third world cities .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Between them are gaps about a foot wide and six inches deep .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Two thirds of them are inbreedings of one kind or another , several twice over .
13 I think she felt wi , you know , some of them are sort of like , a bit unimportant .
14 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 .
15 Most notable amongst them are methods of database management and statistical processing .
16 Some of them are renegades from the Dwarf Engineers Guild which frowns upon innovation and regards much of the Empire 's new technology as a heinous break with ancient tradition .
17 And , in our English language we actually make this mistake when we talk about birthdays French , in some ways are for more sensible with language , and you only ever have one birthday , the rest of them are anniversaries of your birthday .
18 ‘ Well , Sergei and I are kind of symbols . ’
19 ‘ Let me tell you , ’ she yelled , ‘ Boyd and I are somebodies in this town , and mostly because I was smart enough to set to and cultivate the right people . ’
20 In addition to dancing , both my husband , Rod , and I are musicians for the team ; I play the recorder and he is a ‘ cellist .
21 And anyway , he and I are sort of mates .
22 My husband and I are fans of Eldorado and never miss an episode .
23 And , of course , perhaps both Eugenia and I are snobs at heart and were flattered by the invitation to go cruising on a very expensive yacht . ’
24 I am essentyale on a murdre scene ;
25 ‘ Mes enfants , ’ said the small Belgian person , ‘ chers collègues , I am enchanté by your successes .
26 I am part of a small group of training officers from neighbouring authorities who are considering the feasibility of regional and local cooperative training ’ …
27 I just want to be treated honestly and know if I am part of Chelsea 's plans . ’
28 I am part of a group of individuals from various professions who are interested in developing a National Children 's Legal Centre in Ireland .
29 I lie so close to the earth that I am part of it and so it is mine .
30 Defending his financial management , Mr Scott replied : ‘ I am part of a seven-man board , albeit a split board .
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