Example sentences of "[am/are] [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 | Total shareholders ' funds under the accruals method are £2.8bn ( v £463m previously declared ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " I am Nenna James . |
| 8 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 9 | This shows , for instance , that the element most closely related to extremely is fast : these two are co-constituents of the adjective phrase construction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Both are adjectives difficult to apply to brisk cross-country motoring . |
| 12 | Are adjectives restrictive or non-restrictive ? gradable or non-gradable ? attributive or predicative ? |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Young batting ace Arran Roberts is still doubtful following a leg operation while Hefin Lewis and Quasim Ijaz are Bangor 's danger men . |
| 18 | His snores are thunder in the night . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The two specific areas which are currently under consideration are Sentence Planning and Pre-release Programmes and SCOTVEC modules are seen as being central to these initiatives . |
| 21 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 22 | Pheasants are birds of Asian origin , including the covert pheasants seen in the English countryside and bred for shooting . |
| 23 | They are birds , flat as fired bullets , |
| 24 | Possibly they are birds which have failed to breed successfully and have assembled here to moult . |
| 25 | There are birds both magnificent — Diomedea exulans , the wandering albatross , and five almost equally remarkable family members — and flightless , like the ostrich-like rhea and the ludicrous steamer duck . |
| 26 | I clutch my wad of sketches that , one day , I hope to turn into pictures that might somehow express the essence of this strange topsy-turvy continent where , believe it or not , there are birds that are scared of heights . |
| 27 | These are birds , generally of Scandinavian woodland origin , which have bred in large numbers and then presumably find themselves short of food . |
| 28 | ( The name , ‘ wheat ear ’ , is derived from its earlier name , ‘ white-arse ’ ! – Wheat ears are birds of hilly country , of short turf and boulders , of bracken , and of rabbit holes in which they can nest . |
| 29 | ( There are birds such as the ostrich and the kiwi which are not adapted for flight . ) |
| 30 | The Book of Remembering has no pictures , but says there are birds that fly , and fish that swim . |