Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We do a cider sack and while most of our beers are about 4% we also do a Porters which is 6% proof . ’ |
2 | On May 17 Havel addressed a Civic Forum rally in Prague to mark the half-anniversary of the student demonstration which had begun the revolution in November 1989 ; at this occasion he said that he would vote for named Civic Forum candidates who were government ministers . |
3 | For the first 40–80 seconds of these signals there were sinus tachycardia and artefact on the electrocardiograms or plethysmograph signals , suggesting large body movements . |
4 | If you need more details on these utilities there are document files on the Mega Disk ( all with DOC extensions ) . |
5 | For football fans there is Danny Baker 's hilarious Own Goals And Gaffes . |
6 | Some little cars there was Range Rovers |
7 | For the Scots there were tour places to Australia up for grabs : for the Welsh there was the need to secure the appointment of Davies and Norster by winning . |
8 | ‘ If I failed in some aspects it was Tom Bradley who failed . |
9 | And as they came to the final furlongs it was Roc de Prince , Laura 's Beau , Sure Metal going for the line and then on the outside , up came New Mill House . |
10 | Er you 're going to look at one of our our gems which is leisure services . |
11 | We are very good at supplying international blue chip companies who are brand leaders in their fields . |
12 | In some areas there were stone buildings , and the houses were . |
13 | On most street corners there are cigarette machines ( the Germans do n't seem to be as health conscious as we are ) . |
14 | Mm that 's what I 've cos I 've not been very busy I 've been picking , you know like a few peanuts there 's chocolate peanuts , there 's |
15 | The increase in synthesis of LTB 4 seen in patients taking NSAIDs remained significant when the subgroups who were Helicobacter pylori positive or negative were analysed separately . |
16 | Scaggs and his country friends join a long line of top performers who are Lowden fans — Bob Dylan , James Taylor , Van Morrison , Elvis Costello , Mark Knopfler , Andrew Strong and Paul Brady . |
17 | It 's not hard to identify some voluntary organisations which were shoe string operations a few years ago but are now lumbering their employees in the hundreds . |
18 | Er , associated with that are certain behaviours , typically vomiting , laxative abuse , erm , use of diuretics which are water tablets or excessive exercising . |
19 | The buyers who were pig farmers bought a 28 feet high hopper which , as the sellers knew , the buyers intended to use for the storage of pig nuts . |
20 | In a temperate country shoes are made in a factory by workers who are process controllers rather than craftsmen , and they touch the materials only when loading or unloading machines . |
21 | Rose was also a skilful card player , and for several years she was world champion at poker . |
22 | Though in the early days there were capacity problems at Gloucester , by and large the new arrangements have worked well . |
23 | In places there are gravel deposits — ; small smoothly rounded pebbles and sand — usually on the insides of the meander curves where the water flows less swiftly . |
24 | Once the choir had filed into their places there was standing room only , and even Mr Salmon , wearing a long black coat and deep-brimmed black hat , was among those who were to be found huddled at the back . |
25 | Given these irreconcilable purposes it is Pham Van Dong and Giap , to take two symbols of Vietnamese intransigence , rather than Ho Chi Minh , who represented the reality of Franco-Vietnamese relations in the four or five months before the all-out war began in December 1946 ; even though it is tempting to consider how , up to the last minute , conflict might have been averted — or at least postponed . |
26 | Businesses which are Prestel information providers will be able to supply information on their products not only to the general public but also to select groups within a particular business or profession , Travel agents , for example , already use the Prestel service extensively . |
27 | Exercise 8–4 How would the above analysis change if the government issued bonds which were tax exempt' ? |
28 | There will be a special meeting during the programme for those delegates who are Birmingham alumni . |
29 | The Third Book of Maccabees ( 3.10 ) has a reference to Greeks who were business partners of Jews in Alexandria about the end of the third century . |
30 | Trevor Isles who 's Deputy Clerk to the Justices in north Oxfordshire is also confident the unit fine system will be fairer , he says ‘ if successful , it could be adopted on a national scale ’ . |