Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are Sir Your obedient Serv Kirkman & Hendy , Upper Gower Street , Bedford Square , September 6th 1791 . ’ |
| 2 | When we are children we first experience this use of power by our parents . |
| 3 | To a certain extent this is correct , but those who know these waters intimately will perhaps agree that their reputation can be exaggerated , and that there are advantages which other coastlines do not possess . |
| 4 | Through parental rows , war movies , barking dogs and football crowds , noise comes to be an automatic , unconscious signal of loss of control and of aggression , and there are teachers whose daily lives are an eternal battle to contain the unease that noise calls forth in them . |
| 5 | Indeed , there are groups whose very power in Britain might be jeopardized if they were seen as identified with specific political parties . |
| 6 | There are people whose early experience of bodily closeness , intimacy and care has been so uncomfortable or so traumatic that they dare not risk a repetition of such pain . |
| 7 | Also , there are churches whose old fashioned pews have been ditched in favour of an open plan arrangement to go with their swinging guitars and electronic keyboards . |
| 8 | In certain occupations , particularly in engineering , there were changes which improved standards of training and established professional status through the formation of recognised institutions . |
| 9 | It was acknowledged that within the heart of London there were areas which required remodelling and these would offer opportunities ‘ for a fine architectural treatment ’ . |
| 10 | But even Josephus contradicts himself and declares almost as an afterthought , that there were Essenes who married . |
| 11 | It is generally older dogs that are nervous of vehicles , especially if they are strays whose only previous experience of travelling in this fashion is being dumped in the dog warden 's van . |
| 12 | In every case , they are people whose sudden loss would substantially reduce profits , who are difficult to replace , and whose loss would hinder business development . |
| 13 | Humans , robots , cyborgs , androids and aliens : If they were serfs they all had to strip off before going through Arrivals Registration . |
| 14 | Another horse with a lot going for him is Cahervillahow who two years ago was being touted as a future winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 15 | It 's space itself that is expanding . |
| 16 | Now that is w er in fact it was a pretty good It 's point nought three per cent I think of our our jobs er that we carry out that you can have you 're allowed to have an accident which I think is a fairly good rate . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's time we all went home . ’ |
| 18 | It 's time we British bucked up . |
| 19 | It 's time itself that is affected . |
| 20 | It 's time you two learned to get along . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's time you two got together . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's time you both came to lunch , ’ he said in a cool voice . |
| 23 | It is Hölderlin who first articulates them fully in his letters , in his epistolary novel Hyperion and , above all , in his poetry ; and his central target is the imbalance of German culture — as compared with the supposed perfection of Greece . |
| 24 | " It is time they both were in bed . " |
| 25 | ‘ It is time it all stopped , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 27 | It was Boulez who last January led a boycott by international singers and conductors following Barenboim departure . |
| 28 | In the middle of the twentieth century Duguid ( 1946 ) emphasised the importance of arterial thrombi in the genesis of the plaque and pointed out that it was Rokitansky who first put forward the ‘ encrustation hypothesis ’ . |
| 29 | It was Tylor who first taught anthropology under this name at Oxford in 1884 and he carried forward and extended some of the theoretically more important strands in Morgan 's work . |
| 30 | It was CIPP which first recommended the abolition — announced earlier this week — of the controversial system of crime screening , by which many offences were not investigated because of a lack of evidence . |