Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [be] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A number of distinguished engineers have been Whitworth Scholars , and we expect this year 's award winners to be high achievers in their subsequent careers , ’ he said . |
| 2 | My Lord there was an an order on the summons for directions erm in August of nineteen ninety erm , provided for experts report to be disclosed with expert evidence to be limited witnesses or each party . |
| 3 | Nowadays many of us find that a bit strange , after all I do n't think any of us or very few of us here in this room have actually given our express consent to be British subjects . |
| 4 | It demonstrated the concern of the oil industry to be good neighbours and to take care in its actions to minimise its disruption to the natural environment , he said . |
| 5 | The first and most crucial step in training children to be social beings takes place when they develop a willingness to do as they are told . |
| 6 | Of course , we had many political differences but the twin oppressions of being Irish lesbians and immigrants brought us together and gave us a strong framework upon which to build our own movement and within which to begin articulating our anger at English feminism . |
| 7 | At a time when rock fans expected country folk to be psychotic rednecks ready to gun down anyone with hair over their ears — pace Easy Rider — Cash came along and fought for Indian rights , recorded with Bob Dylan , and received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 8 | Harris ( 1984 ) shows that even two varieties which are held by their own speech communities to be related dialects may actually have very different underlying grammatical systems : " deep-seated structural divergences [ may ] exist between varieties which are intuitively felt to be dialects of the same language " ( Harris 1984 : 304 ) . |
| 9 | The organization and development of an industry from country to country may vary significantly enough for factors such as final size , management strategy , introduction of new technology and market structure to be important variables explaining differences in the nature of industrial relations in a single industry . |