Example sentences of "[det] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEEN sensation Take That are 8–1 favourites to be number one in the Christmas pop charts . |
| 2 | TEEN sensation Take That are 8–1 favourites to be number one in the Christmas pop charts . |
| 3 | Er , associated with that are certain behaviours , typically vomiting , laxative abuse , erm , use of diuretics which are water tablets or excessive exercising . |
| 4 | Yes , but one of them I 'll sign in your presence Maisie and her twenty year old son , not hundred per cent happy about it , I 'd prefer older people cos youngest like that are inclined try to put their music on a bit loud or invite their friends in when mum 's away , you know , and . |
| 5 | Now what happens here is that erm normally , you 'll have a , a er an endowment attached which erm has got a sum assured and that sum assured may be about six thousand say , and onto that are added bonuses . |
| 6 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 7 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 8 | Had that been another threat . |
| 9 | To the left of this are various reproductions of work by Chagall , Toulouse-Lautrec , Palmer and one by Holbein whose relevance is further underlined by the monograph on his work on the floor . |
| 10 | The implications of this are increased unemployment , since the government can not continue indefinitely expanding the non-marketed sector . |
| 11 | We have seen that both Marx and Weber see contemporary Western societies as capitalist , and both agree that the crucial distinctive features of this are private ownership of the means of production , and a market for labour . |
| 12 | Among those who will do this are Combined Power Systems , SPP Energy and British Gas . |
| 13 | The first three lines of this are exaggerated Stoicism ; but what is the ‘ hope ’ of the casually thrown-in last line ? |
| 14 | In the centre of the vault of the choir is the crowning of the Lamb on a strong blue background and below this are four angels , and beyond , four evangelists . |
| 15 | Mr Arthur Cross said : ‘ The men who did this are bloody murderers . |
| 16 | Away from this are primary outliers of population concentration in the older industrial areas of South Wales , the North-East , and Central Scotland . |
| 17 | Going back further than this are yearly highlights from the years 1980 to 1988 , and major issues of the decade from the ‘ 20 's right through to the ‘ 70's . |
| 18 | Rocks like this are ideal traps for gold |
| 19 | Probably contemporary with this are some bronze shields with relief decoration of purely if crudely oriental character . |
| 20 | Examples of this are high gloss and art papers . |
| 21 | The types of disturbances which could do this are sudden changes in investment , balance of payments crises , changes in the money supply , rapid inflation and the policies designed to curb it , population movements , industrial disputes , or even wars . |
| 22 | More than half are 100 years or more old . |
| 23 | Few soils contain the 40 per cent clay to qualify as true clays ; few are pure silts or pure sands . |
| 24 | It should be remembered , however , that among the few hundred pulsars detected only a few are binary pulsars ; binary black holes may therefore form a comparably small proportion of all black holes . |
| 25 | Looking more carefully at the people who are in here , I see that few are true locals . |
| 26 | There has been considerable debate about the origins of the glassware found in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries ; some are Roman survivals , and a proportion was imported from glass-houses in the Rhineland and northern Gaul . |
| 27 | I mean some , some are better wages because they are subsidized by the government . |
| 28 | Some are specialist killers , like the Peregrine Falcon where individuals tend to take only one kind of bird . |
| 29 | Some are dyed-in-the-wool environmentalists , many are businesspeople with tourist interests , but many more are ordinary people . |
| 30 | Some are managing directors of large international operations and others the best " account men " in advertising . |