Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at the end of the scene we noticed the Indians were n't doing what they normally did which was stick their poles in to stop the raft . |
| 2 | She was visitng her parents home and disturbed the thieves . |
| 3 | There are thousands of examples , and in almost every community today there are families whose surnames show that centuries ago one of their ancestors moved sufficiently far from his own country , town or village , to acquire a place-name reference , and the name adhered . |
| 4 | And just as the born worrier hurries to the medical dictionary to look up a real or imagined ailment , then medicates the common cold as though it were a terminal condition , so there are Koi-keepers whose ponds are a permanently dilute solution of anti-parasitic/antibacterial preparations … just in case . |
| 5 | But besides ‘ natures ’ , ‘ essences ’ , or ‘ substantial forms ’ of the various genera and species , there are properties which members of that species universally and permanently have , and it is the aim of ‘ science ’ to tell us why they have them . |
| 6 | This chapter has tried to suggest that the poor image project work seems to have as a teaching method is not a necessary one , and that there are strategies which teachers and schools can employ to ensure that it becomes purposeful and systematic . |
| 7 | It is well established that there are voters whose preferences are influenced by the alphabetical sequence in which candidates ' surnames appear on the ballot paper . |
| 8 | A century ago there were empires whose boundaries were difficult for outside traders to penetrate ; now exporters of communications products and services experience difficulties in entering the domestic markets of such large population nations as China , India , USSR , USA , Indonesia , Japan , and Brazil — nations which together have about half the world 's people . |
| 9 | However Hahnemann came increasingly to recognize that there were patients whose diseases continually seemed to relapse , or change their form , and such patients could be extremely difficult to treat . |
| 10 | There 's senators whose families came from Germany and Italy and Ireland . |
| 11 | They are people whose lives are full of activity and demands for immediate responses ; they often have little time for reflection and study . |
| 12 | They 're people whose lives have been shattered by the incest or other sexual abuse that engulfed their childhood and darkened their lives thereafter . |
| 13 | Well , it 's time we men stood up for ourselves . |
| 14 | It is time their voices were heard . |
| 15 | After their father 's death , it was Louis whose interests proved more closely aligned to Charles 's . |