Example sentences of "[det] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bands like that are accidents waiting to happen in a world where 99 per cent of groups are casualties of their own blatant ambition . |
| 2 | I suppose that comments like that are music to your ears ? |
| 3 | Against that are moments when he strays too far from the printed note in striving for that extra frisson of feeling and resorts to a delivery that stays only just the right side of being coarse . |
| 4 | A lot of things you remember like that are moments of desolation . |
| 5 | Take That are Robbie Williams , 18 , from Stoke-on-Trent , Gary Barlow , 21 , from Cheshire and Mark Owen , 18 , Howard Donald , 22 , and Jason Orange , 22 , all from Manchester . |
| 6 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 7 | And often we are the people who embroider it and overbear it with all the complications ent that that are that are part of it . |
| 8 | However Leeds will NEVER be able to compete with scum regarding the size of squad , the only clubs able to do that are Liverpool and Blackburn , until Jack Walker 's money runs out . |
| 9 | ‘ And many of those who have n't done that are internationals , anyway — like David Hirst , Carlton Palmer , John Sheridan , Nigel Worthington and Danny Wilson . ’ |
| 10 | For what that s worth . |
| 11 | Indeed , there is a sense in which most of the working genes in a body can be said to cooperate with each other as a team , because over evolutionary time they ( i.e. ancestral copies of themselves ) have each been part of the environment in which natural selection has worked on the others . |
| 12 | Had that been Swift 's study ? |
| 13 | The most immediate examples of this are ones in which the imposed density variations are entirely vertical ; as in Chapter 22 , this implies that any motion is the consequence of instability of the rest configuration . |
| 14 | The most obvious examples of this are contingency theories of a ‘ culture-free ’ variety ( Hickson et al. , 1974 ) but it is also the case with certain kinds of institutional theory , such as in Biggart and Hamilton 's ( 1987 : 437 ) hypothesis that ‘ [ l ] eadership strategies in any one socio-cultural setting will have strong underlying similarities ’ . |
| 15 | Examples of this are Pay History and Absence and Overtime History . |
| 16 | And allied to this are concerns about ‘ not getting the results ’ and about one 's reputation with colleagues in general , and especially with the senior staff whose opinion can make or break a career . |
| 17 | In 1990 I produced a new work entitled ‘ Memories are made of this , Made of this are memories ’ . |
| 18 | Overlaid on this are strands of sexual politics as the strike allows women to take greater responsibilities . |
| 19 | Spectacular examples of this are rayon and float glass . |
| 20 | Practical features resulting from this are functions such as Trace , Freeze and Truth Maintenance . |
| 21 | That one was associated with the English dance explosion , but none of the tracks on this are dance records and they do n't pretend to be . ’ |
| 22 | Telling this are Ruth herself ( Carol Been ) , her tragically decaying father ( Alfred Hoffman ) , and a very nasty policeman ( Saul Reichlin ) . |
| 23 | Lurking behind this are views about law and about the family . |
| 24 | Allied to this are views about the limited efficacy of law . |
| 25 | Examples of this are species now in populations in southern India and far away in Malesia , like the yam ally Trichopus zeylanicus ( Dioscoreaceae ) . |
| 26 | Schemes like this are part of the £23 billion |
| 27 | ‘ The people who organized this are professionals — and ruthless as hell . |
| 28 | The wildlife kingdom has paid a high price for supplying man with food and products ; classic examples of this are whaling , the ivory trade , fur coats , tortoise shell and reptile skins used for handbags and shoes . |
| 29 | The exceptions to this are relatives of the nautilus , the squid and the octopus . |
| 30 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |