Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The terrible stress and strain of his job and the society 's problems were factors which sadly led him to behave in the way he did . ’ |
| 2 | Croome 's owners are confidant it can be a glorious success . |
| 3 | So many of Hardy 's girls are people who 've had a little bit of education , and who are somehow or other caught between traditional ways and modern ways , and I think one has the feeling that Hardy is more interested in the sociologically transitional status of the people he 's writing about than he is interested in them as people . |
| 4 | A financial institution 's assets are items it owns and its claims on others . |
| 5 | And the erm extroverts are people who prefer to focus outside themselves , on the world of people and things . |
| 6 | Many of the 2,000-plus troops were teenagers who had never seen a dead body before , let alone large-scale massacres . |