Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The kind of satisfaction which can be anxiety-free is that in which my own creative powers and understanding of the world around me are at a maximum and this is satisfaction which the individual can only achieve as part of a community of persons directed at these ends .
2 ‘ There are lots of priests at Manchester United , ’ he said in typical Docherty style , ‘ and some of them are on the board . ’
3 I think every , all the benefits should definitely be means tested , I know that most of them are to a degree .
4 Molecular evidence has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan .
5 Most of them are of the lancet type particularly associated with the commissioners ' buildings and many — for example , Christ Church , Meadow Lane , Leeds ( 1823–6 , demolished ) and Honley near Huddersfield ( 1842–3 ) — had thin arcade piers of cast iron ; but Chantrell was a serious student of Gothic .
6 ‘ A lot of them are under the water and you ca n't see them .
7 Many factors affect the usage , and not all of them are under the control of the textile works .
8 Some of them are below the level you expect and below the standards we want to provide , ’ it says .
9 There 's no doubt if you analyze a lot of dreams , that an awful lot of them are as a matter of fact .
10 Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action .
11 It is disturbing to think any of them are in a position of influence in the education field since to a man they seem only capable of talking in cliche-riddled sentences or civil service speak .
12 Most of them are in no mood for another leadership contest and , in any case , there is no plausible challenger outside the Cabinet .
13 Most of them are in the name of Thomas Leavy , a cover identity originally provided by the CIA in 1982 and reinforced by the DIA in 1990 for Operation Shakespeare .
14 So that you may find that all the hesitations are by women , or most of them by women , or most of them are in the pub , or most of them are a after ten at night , or ar you know , you can look at the context in which certain words , certain conversational gambits that some of them use .
15 ‘ Most of them are in the south of England , which could , in the next 10 years , see the top teams coming from Chichester or Eastbourne , ’ Roberts said .
16 Many of them are in the south of England , in seats held by Conservative Members of Parliament .
17 Although he produced Venetian and Italian vedute his views of Poland and Germany are the most sought after , although most of them are in the Dresden Museum and National Museum in Warsaw .
18 Although the sport and television market appears to be a free-for-all to delight the most Darwinist of entrepreneurs , a scrutiny of those top five private networks soon reveals that four of them are in the hands of a holding firm called Finvest , which is itself the broadcasting vehicle of the Socialist-leaning businessman Silvio Berlusconi .
19 Some of them are in the library .
20 Yet double , triple and even multiple stars are surprisingly common in space , and some of them are within the range of binoculars or even the naked eye .
21 Some of them are like a lot of old women . ’
22 I been to the country once with Annie .
23 I been on a boat once with the school .
24 I been on a train with the school once — we went to the seaside and I cut my toe .
25 Had I been in a vehicle I could have gone back , but on foot it was not worth risking the wasted energy .
26 Never have I been in a place of such contrasts .
27 I been in the shower .
28 I been in the shower .
29 ‘ And whatever the way of it , had I been in the Lord Owen 's place , with my chief enemy thus presented naked into my hand , I doubt if I could have resisted the temptation .
30 ‘ This day have I been in the library and it has been very interesting .
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