Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] be [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until Summum 's arrival , burial or cremation were its two main products . |
| 2 | Or prick was my little ending . |
| 3 | Anything that makes the earth bang or shake or move is his field . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Gin and tonic is his drink when in town , unless he has a hangover ( which he never does ) when it 's a ‘ Bluddeh ’ ( Mary ) . |
| 5 | Now fear and horror are my only companions . |
| 6 | For those to whom this type of style and experience are their most important consideration we have collected the very best of the very best — our Golden Choice . |
| 7 | For a moment longer , raw gaze and taste and smell were his sole sources of wisdom . |
| 8 | The individual 's responsibility in conversion is to repent and believe ; God 's initiative and response are his gift of forgiveness and his gift of the Holy Spirit ; and the church 's role is to welcome the new believer into fellowship , symbolizing this publicly in the act of baptism . |
| 9 | The fashionable and becoming gown and girdle were her only concessions to style and conformity . |
| 10 | For Kristian is still on his Todd romantically — and Marci is his 65-year-old grannie . |
| 11 | Actions of evil and barbarism are its stock in trade . |
| 12 | They were expert assassins , and murder was their trade . |
| 13 | One must pay tribute to her dedication , and the gratitude of all connected with the Club , past , present and future is her due for the patient hours she has obviously spent in researching club records , the Henley Standard and personal reminiscences of many people who have been associated with the Club 's story . |
| 14 | The fertile combination of theory and practice was his own , however , and he stood at the head of a great group of people working on the new phenomena of electricity . |
| 15 | Collinson had been told by John Bartram of his son 's artistic talent : ‘ Botany and drawing are his darling delight … |
| 16 | His passionate love of the English language is absolute : his wit and fluency are its testimony . |
| 17 | His model and hero was his neighbour Mustafa Kenal Ataturk ; he strove to implement the same reforms in Iran as were being achieved in Turkey . |
| 18 | The 1950s language of good and evil forces , of worldwide pacts , bases and influence is their natural speech . |
| 19 | And we are discovering that we are not interested in exploring the finer points of alienation with tea cuppery , but that the theatre can be a bridge of bone between sickness and health — that our language will somehow always be on the edge of poetry and that image and metaphor are our natural tools — they best express whole worlds and histories in collision with each other . |
| 20 | I ca n't wait to tell Ernest that you and Con were our anonymous benefactors all along . ’ |
| 21 | One of the marvels of Crime and Punishment is its clear distinguishing , untainted by clinical knowingness , of Svidrigailov 's and Raskolnikov 's ways of being ( as the saying is ) not with us . |
| 22 | ‘ Ahimsa is my God , and Truth is my God . |
| 23 | It was a very moving and challenging address , culminating in the acknowledgement that one person who underwent many years in Communist prisons , suffering hardships in mind and body was his own father . |
| 24 | And vitality is its quality of mystic nourishment , its physical and spiritual trace in us . ’ |
| 25 | The growth of wheat , the birth of a lamb , the movement of clouds , put him in awe of nature : the locomotive he sees as man 's response : the switch and throttle are his magic wands … the girl may come to the science lesson with a less eager curiosity than the boy , but she too will need to feel at home with machinery . |
| 26 | RON HARRIS : ( Chelsea and Brentford- 1961–1983 ) : ‘ People called him Chopper Harris , and Chopper was my first nickname when I went to Wimbledon — before the crowd came up with Psycho for me . |
| 27 | and service is their was really to get , to make sure we could park and get in |
| 28 | In conclusion , how much you as an artist needs to know about bird structure and character is your choice . |
| 29 | Roderick will be sadly missed in every circle in which he moved , but most of all , of course , by Bobbie , whose devotion and fortitude was his greatest comfort in his final illness , and whose forbearance over many years enabled Roderick to spend such a great amount of their valuable time on the book . |
| 30 | Without roofs are the houses , And red are their walls with blood . |