Example sentences of "of [pers pn] be [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them are Link Schools , and a number of special schools are also included in the scheme . |
| 2 | Few Washingtonians talk like this , perhaps because few of them are Yankee patrician war heroes , perhaps because politics has rubbed the gleam off them . |
| 3 | About three-quarters of them were day schools and the remainder boarding ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Table 17 ) . |
| 4 | When they formed the Army Education Corp , during the war , they er , they wore uniform , most of them were warrant officers , and soldiers but in uniform you could come out I mean , they been ordinary soldiers , but they 'd been put put on a charge every time the saw them , you know . |
| 5 | Drakard , though , in his Stamford News of 17 November 1819 accused the sport 's antagonisers of hypocrisy , as many of them were fox hunters , suggesting their real motive was purely to destroy a working class tradition : |
| 6 | Several of them were fringe members who we have not been able to keep on to some of them especially in er in Little Hulton and Irlam |
| 7 | Most of them were Science Fiction or Fantasy . |
| 8 | Eight of them were grammar schools , nine were comprehensive and there was one middle school . |
| 9 | One person whose eye he did catch was Patrick McGoohan , who recommended him for the role of cabin boy John Drake in Sir Francis Drake , a twenty-six-part adventure series made by ITC , whose boss , Lew Grade , was expert at making programmes that would sell to America ; one of them was Danger Man , starring McGoohan . |
| 10 | a lot of yours are sweat shirts |
| 11 | The boy in front of her is chewing gum ; |
| 12 | On his other side was an array of cheap , gaudy small bottles for the scent he sold ; and on the floor in front of him were ivory balls with cavities for scent . |
| 13 | Aft of him was stowage space for a collapsible dinghy , maintenance platforms and a spare propeller ! |
| 14 | erm I think the real danger however is that over the next three four five years , erm people all over the world will get into the habit of regarding Britain as an impossibly expensive country to study in , because no other country in the world attempts to charge the full cost of it 's university education in tuition fees , and erm that gradually people will turn elsewhere . |
| 15 | TI have accused Dowty of pinching some of it 's strategy ideas . |
| 16 | A P L O statement says , A series of meetings have taken place with the personal blessing of it 's leader Yassa Arafat . |
| 17 | You 'll remember that we had a pilot project in South Oxford Health Centre , Tony is one of the G P's there , I 'm expecting that he 's going to be very positive about this project since we all are , in terms of it 's practice service delivery . |
| 18 | Some of it is 18th-Century material , some of it very recent , and almost 100 pages are devoted to verse , understandably given the editor 's pedigree . |
| 19 | No well some of it is whale oil , particularly those extracted from sperm whales us used in the manufacture of certain expensive lipsticks . |
| 20 | In the case of British archaeological remains , if there is some doubt whether a robust brachycephalic skull is of Neolithic or Bronze Age date , one may say that there is a greater likelihood of it being Bronze Age , for most Neolithic individuals were noticeably long-headed , whereas many Bronze Age invaders were very short-headed . |
| 21 | Much of it was paper work , assessing a need and arguing its cause . |
| 22 | " Only most of us are sex maniacs . " |