Example sentences of "be [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that would be opportunity cost ? |
| 2 | Under pressure from the South African government , and in the face of growing guerrilla warfare , Ian Smith unexpectedly announced on 24 September 1976 that there would be majority rule in the country within two years . |
| 3 | 12.58 am , Lewisham West : John Maples , a junior Treasury minister , could be election night 's first ministerial victim if Labour achieves the swing the polls are predicting in London . |
| 4 | At the local level there were to be branch juvenile exchanges and wherever possible branch care committees , and the duties of both corresponded to those of their London counterparts . |
| 5 | As an inquiry into the cause begins , one prime theory will be driver fatigue . |
| 6 | It was certainly a source of great pride to me in the nineteen sixties to be Personnel Manager of the Greenock plant , in an area which is noted to it 's erm , insecurity , to see the effects on the living standards and conditions and morale of the general community of having a manufacturing plant which had stability of labour , as well as it 's er , objectives . |
| 7 | It must be Marlborough House . |
| 8 | Derby , who are at home to Swindon , will be hope goal difference counts against their rivals . |
| 9 | One of the preconditions for productive teacher-pupil interaction , therefore , must be curriculum mastery on the part of the teacher : keeping one step ( or one SOA ) ahead of the children is not enough . |
| 10 | It 's meant to be cottage pie but I 've put some |
| 11 | The solvent used tends to be methylene chloride thickened with SCMC to a gel consistency to slow down the evaporation of the solvent and to make the product easy to apply . |
| 12 | And that presupposes in that calculation , if you were taking the worst case , that that would all be greenfield land . |
| 13 | Pattern recognition techniques that have most often been applied to script include spatial analysis methods ( where strokes are coded by a numbering system on a grid ) which are easy to implement but are only suitable for unconnected characters , and will be user dependent in order to keep the database of character codings small and accuracy high . |
| 14 | In the end , of course , we had to compromise , and decided on the following priorities : the Puffin Picture Book Spinner must be produced in quantities realistic for the UK trade , it must look bright and cheery , it must last , it must be user friendly and capable of categorising titles by various methods . |
| 15 | Fortunately , all this does n't have to be hair raising . |
| 16 | The post-holder will also be involved in the preparations for the next HEFCE research assessment exercise ; this will include questions relating to the establishment of a publications database , and candidates for this appointment should therefore be computer literate . |
| 17 | Well you 'll soon be computer whizz kids eh ? |
| 18 | This will normally be computer manufacturer 's software , device handlers etc . |
| 19 | Industry guru Marc Schulman has left UBS Securities to set up his own consulting operation , The Technology Strategies Group , whose primary customers are expected to be computer industry managers from both the hardware and software side . |
| 20 | ‘ There 'll surely be heart failure . ’ |
| 21 | Teleglobe Canada Inc , Toronto says it is in the process of filing a $Can125m — about $100m — final prospectus in all provinces of Canada : the prospectus covers 10-year unsecured debentures with a coupon of 8.35% , and the joint lead managers of the underwriting group will be RBC Dominion Securities Inc and Nesbitt Thomson Ltd and will include Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc and Scotia McLeod Inc . |
| 22 | Schoolchildren may be maypole dancing or in the procession in fancy dress , local groups and societies enter floats , others may be involved in the fund-raising events that take place throughout the year or senior citizens may be invited to the ‘ old folks tea and treat ’ ( which takes place on the Monday ) , organised by the maypole committee and an important part of the May weekend . |
| 23 | Subsequent starting points will be Bangor pier ; Pensychnant , near Conwy ; St Asaph ; Wrexham ; Dolgellau ; and Criccieth . |
| 24 | Yeltsin announced at the meeting in Minsk on Dec. 30 that the first channel of Central Television would be given over to the Commonwealth , the second would be Russian , the third would be Moscow Television and the fourth would be an educational channel . |
| 25 | For 1865 only , he was MP for Stoke on Trent , which was near another Beresford estate , and in 1868 fulfilled his ambition to be University Member for Cambridge . |
| 26 | As in the original study , the main source will be small-areas census and other data , with measures of inequality calculated from these indicators . |
| 27 | We are trying to find out how a prisoner was able to posess a cannister of what appears to be CS gas ’ . |
| 28 | A high proportion of these workers may be part time . |
| 29 | It would , as always when she was with him , be part pain and part pleasure . |
| 30 | The 69-year-old from Beechwood in Middlesbrough lost a ‘ substantial ’ sum of money after a visit from two men , claiming to be Middlesbrough Council workers measuring up for replacement doors and windows . |