Example sentences of "and [pers pn] be [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 2 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 3 | And they are gulls they are invisible they are human |
| 4 | Purchasing costs often represent a substantial part of the total costs of production , and they are costs which may be incurred by various sub-units of production . |
| 5 | They are books which bring together all three of the worlds we inhabit , and they are books which appear to thrive on being seen through — on the transparency of their suggestion that tyrannies , that sycophancy , conspiracy and repression , courts and courtiers , are all on the royal right , and in the bush , and running into the sand . |
| 6 | There was Sammy and Davie and and er from Comely Bank , Willie and Jim they were all Stevedores and Andrew and They were stevedores you see a lot of . |
| 7 | ‘ People look for new ways to supplement their income and it is employers who feel the pinch . ’ |
| 8 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 9 | The health conditions of the vast majority of Salvadoreans can only be described as critical and it is women who must bear the brunt of caring for the ill . |
| 10 | What happened here was apparently an attempt to change strokes into dots ; and it is dots he wrote for the immediate repeat of the theme . |
| 11 | And it was lesbians who , without heterosexual credentials or cover , took the heavy risks and , consequently , the heavy blows . |
| 12 | And it was women who sang its praises . |