Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statements conveying preferential relationships between terms indicate which terms are to be treated as equivalent to one another , or which concepts are to be grouped together under one index term . |
| 2 | They resent the " off-comed-un " , the " bloody potoiler " , the " bloody hiker " , forgetting that no matter how far back their own roots go , they or their ancestors were at one time " foreigners " too . |
| 3 | In the eyes of the employing local authority the position of the head as leader-cum-manager depends on how much he or she can manage without the authority 's assistance and on how correct his or her activities are in terms of fitting into national and local patterns of responsibility . |
| 4 | The number of people in Britain who are from , or whose parents are from , the New Commonwealth countries and Pakistan — a category close to but not quite identical to that of the black population — is just over 2 million , just under 4% of the population . |
| 5 | All lands afforested by Henry II or his sons were to be disafforested . |
| 6 | … or perhaps worse , your bull has broken into your neighbour 's heifers or your lambs are on the road where they could cause an accident . |
| 7 | This was compounded by her belief that her normal examination ( aged 34 ) meant that neither she nor her children were at risk , and she had never discussed the family history with them . |
| 8 | However , the government 's spokesman on the Bill in its passage through the House of Lords , Lord Caithness , tried to give assurances that there was virtually no possibility that a local authority nor its librarians were in danger of falling foul of the Act by simply stocking homosexual material as part of the library service to the public . |
| 9 | That 's what me and my friends are into , and it does n't make us stupid or slags just because we like to dress up and have fun . ’ |
| 10 | The laundered clothes had fallen every which way and my cases were in a jumbled heap in the back , but we did n't stop . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , I am in my early twenties and my parents are in their forties and one of them dies I will grieve in the same way , but am likely to be taken unawares and be unprepared . |
| 12 | And my answers were in that sense . |
| 13 | And when we were apart and my thoughts were about him , my body absorbed my mind 's obsession and throbbed for him . |
| 14 | And my teeth are in bad , all my teeth are badly in need of repair . |
| 15 | I was twenty-one , I had just come out of Sweden and my eyes were like saucers . |
| 16 | I 'll tell you about Ryan Buck , fifteen years my senior , an ex-felon , an actor , my first , though my mouth was raw with the metallic taste of braces fresh on my teeth , and my features were like crooked , accidental things . |
| 17 | No other shipping company had quite the cachet of Cunard and its ships were among the most opulent that cut the Atlantic waves . |
| 18 | The company 's investment decisions were ludicrous and its executives were about as efficient at management as the Board of General Motors would be at writing and performing a Number One single . |
| 19 | The concept of the unconscious has been derived mainly from psychoanalytically based theories and its complexities are beyond the scope of this discussion . |
| 20 | By its very nature , Dialectical Theology was a vital and tempestuous movement , and its leaders were by no means all of the same stamp . |
| 21 | Its contents are priceless and its memories are of truly remarkable people . |
| 22 | It raises funds for conservation and its concerns are with earth-bound pandas ( it has helped set up ten panda reserves in China ) rather than ocean-going whales . |
| 23 | It stands beside the river in the city of the new Jerusalem , where God and his people once more live together — and its leaves are for " the healing of the nations " ( Revelation 22:2 ) . |
| 24 | However , Ramsay and some of his closest associates still met and its activities were in fact to provide the government with the excuse to intern many fascists without trial in 1940 . |
| 25 | ‘ Night ’ itself occurs several times in his early books of poetry , as it was bound to do , and its references are of an intimidating sort : ‘ the night never ending ’ ( in ‘ Letter ’ ) , and ‘ the clinic of your thighs against the night ’ ( in Let Us Compare Mythologies ; the latter intimating that other experience of the night which such high thinkers as Bertrand Russell found laden with sexual feelings ) . |
| 26 | The project is centred on retail value chains and its objectives are to : 1 . |
| 27 | No matter what the deficiencies were in its security arrangements at Frankfurt , the airline and its insurers were at least entitled to prepare their best defence against a charge of wilful misconduct . |
| 28 | The house is built of rock-faced sandstone which is of the deepest pink , peculiar to this area , and its roofs are of patterned slate . |
| 29 | The monetary arrangements of the Zollverein and its successors are of interest . |
| 30 | The tone of the report and its recommendations were in marked contrast with those of earlier enquiries into child care scandals . |