Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was greatly heartened and told myself I must previously have misjudged the situation — that my subjects were after all behind me and would see that right was done . ’ |
| 2 | It had been an exercise without much in the way of results , but then many of my days were like that , and it was only by knowing the normal that the abnormal , when it happened , could be spotted . |
| 3 | That is true , and many of my constituents are in that position . |
| 4 | My orders are for this skeleton to be taken to the Natural History Museum in London , where scientific tests will reveal more about its true nature . |
| 5 | And he says , None of my pals are like that . |
| 6 | And my answers were in that sense . |
| 7 | I shall treat my own family in the same way , disregarding the fiction that my children are in some mystical way an extension of myself . |
| 8 | My children were in that position . ’ |
| 9 | My boots were by each indent of pressure keeping the route and the spirit of those who walked before alive . |
| 10 | My thoughts are with that pitiful , struggling file , stumbling through the dusk into Cambridge , bowed under their . |
| 11 | These bodies My Lords are after all precepting authorities and I think it crucial that those who 've been elected by their local communities should be in a clear majority and I sympathise very much with the er proposition in this regard , set out in the Noble Lord , Lord 's Amendment number twenty-one . |
| 12 | I wrote to that older brother of yours , ‘ My capabilities are of little matter now ’ , but I suppose I might be as well off writing to myself for all the answer I 'm likely to get . ’ |
| 13 | erm , on four , er , again I do n't know what pigeon fanciers or pigeon er , what their views are on this , but you see , this is another European directive erm , there is a risk it says of this disease being airborne , it can be airborne , and it was shown that racing pigeons could introduce the disease to commercial flocks . |
| 14 | Her belly swayed , her ankles were like those of a woman with dropsy . |
| 15 | The mastodon was even more distinct , since its teeth were unlike those of the modern elephants . |
| 16 | On the first point , local authority tenants who bought their homes are among those least likely to have been repossessed . |
| 17 | None of your navel-lint , tit-licking pen-fuckers so infatuated with the twitchings of the ego they remain sublimely indifferent to the obscene fact that their words are worth less than the flies tormenting the eyelids of an African child . |
| 18 | yes they 're both totally shame less and their heads are like that , Lucy come and see say hello to . |
| 19 | Neither of her brothers was in any way afflicted by claustrophobia . |
| 20 | The simplicity of her books is above any attempts to write down to anyone . |
| 21 | They were to be weighed under water to measure their body density , but plans for vigorous treadmill tests may have to be shelved because their feet are in such pain . |
| 22 | But there 's one thing to be sure of ; their hearts are in this game for keeps . |
| 23 | But , before she could sort out just what her feelings were at this blatant example of male collusion , Folly found herself being steered towards the revolving doors to the street . |
| 24 | Yet they were surely correct in their fundamental premise , that what distinguished the twelfth century from its predecessors was above all the proliferation of new political communities , juridically defined by their consuetudines or coutumes . |
| 25 | I would also be interested to know what other paths they had walked and what their perceptions were of these compared to the Staffordshire Way . |
| 26 | Their properties are in some ways intermediate between those of the skeletal muscles and the smooth muscles found in other phyla . |
| 27 | Their bodies are in such harmony . |
| 28 | A mass screening of residents then assessed what proportion of the lead in their bodies was of this isotope . |
| 29 | cos it 's like erm , it 's like , her , her calves and her shins are like same size as her thighs |
| 30 | Its leaders were at each other 's throats . |