Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , when I got on the scales I 'm ten stone three . |
| 2 | I weighed 10 stone before I was nine months old ; by 14 months I was 15 stone and six feet tall standing on my back legs . |
| 3 | Oh James no James you want some listeners I 'm sorry love . |
| 4 | The span of possibilities here is enormous : we can follow Stravinsky in adapting Medieval forms ; we can write songs which are pure melody ; or we can use a form which ignores musical values , taking the guise of a word-drama . |
| 5 | But then he said a neighbour who had a dress , just wearing a dressing gown and he was married with three kids which is next door heard what going , been going on and he they were chasing , were chasing all through the common . |
| 6 | The disk is round , diameter up to 15 mm , densely covered with low granules or spinelets which are very rugose and do not form a crown . |
| 7 | He was shocked to see that this beard , unlike his hair and whiskers which were dark brown in colour , was sprouting with an atheistical tint of ginger , only a little darker than the whiskers of the free-thinking Magistrate . |
| 8 | They are centres of friendship where relationships which are light-hearted combine with the serious business of running a school on corporate lines . |
| 9 | The curving pond , flanked with stunning peonies which were another legacy of the garden and thrive in London 's clay-based soil , is an experiment , says Patricia , that she intends to improve on this summer . |
| 10 | While most of the sectors which are expanding employment in the economy are services , there is also a group of new and growing manufacturing industries . |
| 11 | Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . |
| 12 | Well , he was talk we were talking about the rave and th what was wrong with it and he was saying basically it was they 'd got four DJs who were all techno and they were like brilliant ! |
| 13 | This word is ‘ Readers ’ , which seems to indicate by my reckoning that 5 out of every 6 letters written on women players are sent to readers who are Steffi Graf fans . |
| 14 | As fighting continued , thousands of refugees fled to Zagreb to escape from Serbian fighters who were seizing territory and advancing amid the supportive bombardment of the army . |
| 15 | If you 're looking at triangles you 're first thing you 're looking at is has it got a right angle ? |
| 16 | If nobody gets an overall majority , the candidate coming last is eliminated and his votes go to the candidates who were second preference . |
| 17 | In other words there is little pay off in providing an explanation which implies nothing can be done . |
| 18 | In the schools there was concerned doubt about what to do for best , whether to integrate or segregate , and in some quarters the hesitant activity seemed to be salvation through Art and Crafts . |
| 19 | The high dose of TAGH , when used in the cell culture system , did not induce DNA synthesis , but in contrast there was a substantial decrease ( by greater than 90% ) in amino acid incorporation into protein ( data not shown ) , showing that at those concentrations there was local toxicity to the whole cell . |
| 20 | He assured fans there was greater stability at the club and exciting plans for the future . |
| 21 | ‘ Beneath all the declamations there is another tone , and behind all the illusions there is another vision . ’ |
| 22 | As pollution in India is set to rise with the growing pace of industrialisation and the increasing ownership of motor cars there is little hope that the Taj will survive without considerable damage to its surface and a need for continuous restoration . |
| 23 | Within shops there are computer-readable price tags to enable the retailer to exercise control over stock and financial transactions , and there are an increasing number of electronic point of sale ( EPOS ) terminals . |
| 24 | In cases where MPRP members had stood as opposition candidates there was some confusion over the exact allocation of seats , but according to the elections commission , the MPRP won 357 seats , and the pro-MPRP Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League won nine seats . |
| 25 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 26 | Every Saturday in the summer months there is open-air theatre in the gardens . |
| 27 | This is mainly because in the summer months there is less rainfall and cloud and so the grain ripens well and can be harvested easily . |
| 28 | By virtue of socialization in the ‘ best ’ private schools they are assured access to the approved universities which stamp them as potential cadres of the ruling class ( Kellner and Crowther-Hunt , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | For many centuries it was common form for a bishop to address a presbyter as ‘ fellow-presbyter ’ . |
| 30 | Of course any rod bag will do but with the price of some of today 's rods it is false economy to make do . |