Example sentences of "be [pos pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only real wives I have ever had are my sailing ships ’ , he is reputed to have once said . |
| 2 | But these are my credit cards . |
| 3 | Dese are my tree cheeldrin … ’ ( then came the embarrassment which always petrified us ) … |
| 4 | These are my childhood idylls , when summer holidays were always hot and sunny . |
| 5 | Are my shoulder blades not fully in contact with the ground because my shoulders tend to be rounded ? |
| 6 | Here are my background assumptions . |
| 7 | ‘ Those are my car keys ! |
| 8 | Other tears flow more from the solar plexus — my tear fountain — they are my Strauss tears , or more recently Berlioz 's Nuits d' Ete , certain pieces by Chopin , Elgar Cello concerto , Brahms violin concerto , the slow movement in Schubert 's string quartet , some of Bach 's choral music … the list goes on . |
| 9 | There , there are my studio windows . ’ |
| 10 | So why are my neck hairs rising just writing about it ? |
| 11 | Anger tears are my Beethoven tears , wild and crashing . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 13 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 14 | They would n't join the grown-ups for a good many years , though the Sheikha 's daughter had been my meal companion before I myself had been accepted by the ‘ grown-ups , . |
| 15 | The chap who was to have been my ward partner has n't come back . |
| 16 | What would have been my lead story this morning if she had n't wafted in ? ’ |
| 17 | How far are my/our teaching aims hindered by : timetable structures ; lack of resources ; school policies ; faculty policies ? |
| 18 | Locke 's distinction between complex ideas , and the simple ideas which are their component parts , copes with this . |
| 19 | Even though independent schools are just as neglectful in the courses which are offered to the non-convergent child as are their state counterparts , at least their parents draw comfort from a feeling that , through their cheque books , they are signalling respect for quality and individualism . |
| 20 | To what extent are their services community responsive and user friendly ? |
| 21 | Rather more conventional than the radical trap reactions of dithiadiazoles are their metal complexation reactions . |
| 22 | Then the sun is gone and it 's suddenly cold and the distant mountains are their night time black cut-out . |
| 23 | The Paint with Nancy videos are available from all good Daler-Rowney stockists , price £12.99 , as are their Nancy Kominsky oil sets , retailing at £32.99 . |
| 24 | Unbeaten Gloucester are their Courage visitors on Saturday and it was Loughborough , previously unbeaten until they met Quins , who stepped out at Sudbury last night . |
| 25 | Well how much are their delivery charges ? |
| 26 | One of the most interesting aspects of relational databases are their data manipulation languages . |
| 27 | Why are their eating habits much the same as ever ? |
| 28 | And what are its management problems likely to be ? |
| 29 | Its principal inputs are its address lines , which may each be set to 0 or 1 . |
| 30 | One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter . |