Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't car who 's money it is .
2 On the other side there are things which are now in a form which is entirely the result of the Fall .
3 ‘ Bear in mind there are people who suffer lifelong injury which can never be put right .
4 They 're taking it away so was doing a tape for grandma and granddad and Keith was going , he was going hello grandma and granddad it 's Kenny you know like the three of them and he was going , whoop whoop whoop oh da !
5 In the New Testament it is Paul who develops the concept of salvation in terms of justification .
6 When they cross a region of space–time it is space–time itself that vibrates .
7 Edith had also stopped all the pupils in the school from beating her up again after the first incident and during the riot it was Edith who had saved her life .
8 I squeeze between a pleasant-looking , well-built car repairer called Bob and an enormously furry small-businessman who 's name I fail to ascertain , and we all smile at each other .
9 and Amy 's cousin Claire and then this girl who 's hair I do
10 This girl who 's hair I do erm her little girl , Karla cor she 's if I found a little girl to look like her , I 'd have one !
11 Here at home there are denominations which , while they may boast a doctrinal comprehensiveness , manifest a cultural exclusiveness .
12 On the final lap it was Robert who beat his brother to the Metropole corner , after the 180mph descent from Coleraine .
13 From the late 18th century onward these brought sealers from North America and Europe into the Southern Ocean ; during the subsequent decades of competitive exploitation it was sealers who discovered most of the cold temperate islands , the ice-covered islands within the pack ice belt , the tip of Antarctic Peninsula , and the great ice-filled bight of the Weddell Sea .
14 This is humanity 's oft-repeated experience , and in the long run it is experience which really teaches , and no amount of scriptural citation of divinely allocated land will ever alter that .
15 Indeed , at the end of the scene it is Olivia who is left alone on stage — in that key situation of the end-of-scene soliloquy that tells all — to declare her newfound , misbegotten love in verse .
16 But for the moment we were friends who had to prepare Wavebreaker for a possible Atlantic crossing .
17 In all parts of the Group there are managers who have responsibility for health and safety .
18 I wonder if on some distant planet there are creatures who are holding their sides at the prospect of us hurling plates at each other . ’
19 ‘ They have been treated , therefore , as persons in a different situation from mere contractors for then they would have been exempt , but in truth they are purchasers who have acquired an interest not in a mere chattel , but in a subject of a permanent nature … ’
20 But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity .
21 But I think after three glasses of wine it 's time I went home . ’
22 He was turning into a porky little Buddha , but compared to everyone else in the room he was life itself , vibrant , irreverent and laughing .
23 Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there .
24 Roller looms take the weaving process one step further with a development which is simplicity itself .
25 So there 's a very interesting study by a person who 's name I 'm going to write on the board okay so or et al nineteen ninety .
26 and Jenny was saying she went to Debenhams yesterday they had a twelve day spectacular at eight thirty to eight thirty at night there was clothes they were half price plus you got a third of ten per cent off .
27 Of course , many workers in adult education are also feminists — they may be the anti-sexist male variety — but on the whole they are women who want adult education to respond to the concerns of the women 's movement .
28 In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain .
29 But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies .
30 Under the next gas lamp it was Sarah who looked at him , but he stared straight ahead .
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