Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] be [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine , a wine snob even , the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth , but in those days it was plonk he wanted . |
| 2 | If all this bland fare has dulled your appetite for the prints it is time you reminded yourself how glorious they can be by a visit to THE LUCY B CAMPBELL GALLERY , 123 Kensington Church Street , W8 . |
| 3 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 4 | Over half of the Dwarf force had been slain and although Skarsnik had lost many good warriors they were losses he could easily afford . |
| 5 | Positional isomerism is very obvious the only thing you have to watch out for , if the give you structural formulae especially multi-choice papers they 're buggers they are when they , when they do this sometimes ! |
| 6 | Fifteen years later when William saw scores of homeless men sleeping on the streets it was Bramwell he commanded , " Go and do something " . |