Example sentences of "[noun] are [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Duncan and Goodwin claim that state institutions are invaluable in the management and organization of the differentiated and spatially variable societies typical of capitalism , and that to be successful such state intervention should take place on a local as well as a national level .
2 The meanings and typifications of institutions are unquestioned in the course of everyday life for the people who use them .
3 Under the University 's safety policy , heads of departments and institutions are responsible for the health , safety , and welfare of all people who are lawfully in the buildings under their charge and are required to bring to the notice of all employees a written statement describing the organisation and arrangements for safety within their departments .
4 The campus clock begins to strike twelve , and its muffled notes are audible in the lecture theatre .
5 The notes are pertinent to the exhibition , but left me slightly disquieted : the style of writing is , appropriately , neither fact not fiction , but this allows her to make shifts through sleights of words which in more academic circumstances would beg fuller exposition .
6 I accept that the Rent Acts are irrelevant to the problem of determining the legal effect of the rights granted by the agreement .
7 Bobroff did not deny reports that debts are high after the £7 million rebuilding of the East Stand .
8 Bobroff did not deny reports that debts are high after the £7 million rebuilding of the East Stand .
9 Ideologies are coeval with the critique of ideology .
10 The discussions are close to a conclusion and I understand that my hon. Friend will shortly be writing to the industry to clear up some of the remaining points , which will isolate the relatively few issues to be settled .
11 ( Subscription tickets for the series of six recitals are available from The School of Music , Queen 's University , price £30 ( £20 ) )
12 We should then ask whether any of these reasons are relevant to the case with which we are concerned , and classify the activity in question in such a way as to achieve the desired level and type of control .
13 ‘ Academic respectability ’ prevailed and courses which might have begun to address the key question — what skills and expertise are crucial to the art of teaching and how can these best be learned and applied ? — were never developed .
14 Within broad uncertainties , the explosions of the Kincardine and College objects are consistent with the fates of long-period comets with kinetic energies of tens of kilotons .
15 In practice , two tendencies are discernible in the Church .
16 the amount insured for household contents and valuables and portable possessions are inadequate at the time of any loss or damage or
17 the amount insured for household contents and valuables and portable possessions are inadequate at the time of any loss or damage or
18 The cost accounts are concerned with the composition of cost and the source of profit .
19 Where the accounts are those of a group , the statement of source and application of funds should reflect the operations of the group .
20 Good financial accounts are vital to the success of any enterprise .
21 participating students ( and trainers ) from other member states are impressed by the fact that they can gain a nationally-recognised certificate from Scotland .
22 Foreign sovereigns and the ambassadors of foreign states are immune from the jurisdiction of the English courts unless they voluntarily submit themselves to it , but the actual extent of the immunity is not free from doubt .
23 A key element in the constitution of a company is the notion that all members of the board are responsible to the company as a whole .
24 Though the trombones are capable , in a limited degree , of a certain amount of rapidity of execution , opportunities for the exploitation of their powers in this direction are rare in the orchestra .
25 Although the rebels ' demands for personal freedom are conspicuous in the chronicles , this can hardly have been the main motive of the Kentishmen , one of the most prominent groups among the peasants , because in Kent there was no serfdom .
26 Openness and honesty are central to the work which all Social Work Department staff do with and for the public .
27 Successful companies inform employees at all levels about what skills and technologies are off-limits to the partner and monitor what the partner requests and receives .
28 Spatial skills are involved in a number of school subjects , such as mathematics , geography and design as well as a number of professions , such as engineering , architecture and computing .
29 This process is now bearing fruit in greater awareness of the work of actuaries and of how our skills are essential to the public we serve .
30 Such skills are essential to the maintenance of an open society .
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