Example sentences of "[be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah the little Toshibas are remotes are n't they ? |
| 2 | Each of these are arthropod vectored microorganisms that cause mammalian diseases . |
| 3 | At best , his figures are ornaments set against the splendours of Nature . |
| 4 | They believe that to those who work within the official theory of school they are non-persons . |
| 5 | The only consistent area of preference in British policy has been satellites ; the other two major components of launchers and ground stations have ( contrary to French doctrine ) been left to others . |
| 6 | The only witnesses had been Sarah 's stepmother , and an ecclesiastic colleague who envied him his good fortune . |
| 7 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 8 | Total shareholders ' funds under the accruals method are £2.8bn ( v £463m previously declared ) . |
| 9 | In the past we have been able to help out when there have been settlement and clearing difficulties and are ready to do the same again . ’ |
| 10 | Not only do documents name sites , but often settlement earthworks remain and areas of ridge and furrow , meadow , and so on demonstrate where it is unlikely that there has been settlement . |
| 11 | A sliver of white that must 've been teeth . |
| 12 | It supports SCSI adaptors from Adaptec Inc , Seagate Technology Corp , and Future Domain Inc , are IDE , RLL , MFM , ESDI and Perstor disk controllers and mono CGA , EGA , Hercules and VGA displays . |
| 13 | The first four should perhaps have been Giants , although the number of good female reads is a bit too heavy in April . |
| 14 | " I am Nenna James . |
| 15 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 16 | A few admitted that there had been excesses . |
| 17 | She admitted there had been excesses . |
| 18 | This shows , for instance , that the element most closely related to extremely is fast : these two are co-constituents of the adjective phrase construction . |
| 19 | But to historicise this recognition effectively we need to understand that discourses and practices do not arbitrarily emerge from the flux of possibilities ; nor are discourses the only contact with the real ; they have their conditions of existence and their effects in concrete historical , social , economic and ideological situations . |
| 20 | Both are adjectives difficult to apply to brisk cross-country motoring . |
| 21 | Are adjectives restrictive or non-restrictive ? gradable or non-gradable ? attributive or predicative ? |
| 22 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 23 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 24 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 25 | It will be recalled that associatives are adjectives of which the properties are specifically not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase in which they figure . |
| 26 | Young batting ace Arran Roberts is still doubtful following a leg operation while Hefin Lewis and Quasim Ijaz are Bangor 's danger men . |
| 27 | The key feature of associative learning is that , unlike habituation or sensitization , it is a long-lasting effect , and all the mechanisms discussed so far have been transients . |
| 28 | His snores are thunder in the night . |
| 29 | Among the best remembered are Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ) , in which Gene Kelly as a sailor on leave in LA , teaches Jerry Mouse to dance ; Kelly again in the ‘ Sinbad The Sailor ’ segment of Invitation to the Dance , with music from Rimsky-Korsakov 's symphonic suite , Scheherazade ; and Mary Poppins ( 1964 ) , in which Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke encounter a variety of Disneyfied animals . |
| 30 | There has also been centralization in the public services . |