Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 2 | Although gestures can misfire and some serious suicide attempts fail ( it is not always easy to distinguish between the gesture and the serious attempt ) , both acts are expressions of immense aggression and can leave behind a trail of guilt and remorse . |
| 3 | Herons are masters of this technique . |
| 4 | States are entitled to rely upon compliance with prescribed procedures when determining which other States are parties to particular treaties . |
| 5 | The safer investments are ones with more people involved . |
| 6 | These cases are examples of fundamental breach . |
| 7 | But while both cases are examples of French risk-taking they are also dramatic examples of large United States companies withdrawing from major electronics fields — namely the European telecommunications equipment market and the US domestic television set market . |
| 8 | In the heyday of the temples , the scribes used at least two linear scripts , and the evolution and interpretation of those scripts are matters of continuing controversy among scholars . |
| 9 | Used properly , bothies are places of great convenience and delight , but do remember a couple of important points . |
| 10 | Local authorities are creatures of central government . |
| 11 | Unexpected overtime , low wages and complicated antisocial hours are features for many care assistants . |
| 12 | Both crystalline forms are examples of molecular crystals . |
| 13 | Insult terms are mostly uncodified , pronoun usage and word-spellings are examples of codified usage . ) |
| 14 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 15 | From its wording , the question does not seem to relate to the requirement for vessels to be operated from within the flag state but merely to the case where , following the introduction of new registration requirements , a vessel loses its flag because the owners and operators are nationals of other member states and are resident and domiciled in those states . |
| 16 | Several finance houses are subsidiaries of commercial banks . |
| 17 | The designation of an energy action city and an energy conservation area , the development of technology networks , and the preparation of community energy plans are examples of such initiatives . |
| 18 | ( 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 . |
| 19 | Consideration of those data-types , in the next section , leads us to introduce a different form of computer architecture , the character or byte-oriented computer , where the basic storage unit is much shorter than the word ( typically eight bits long ) and all data-types are multiples of this unit . |
| 20 | Quite true , but in the main , the major string manufacturers are specialists in just string — like Babolat , Ashaway and Gamma . |
| 21 | Japanese car manufacturers are examples of this kind of orientation . |
| 22 | And these spectacles are acts of calculated provocation , which reflect an undisguised militancy , an obvious preparedness to countenance force . |
| 23 | In general , modern drawing implements are improvements on ancient materials . |
| 24 | Both boy finalists are members of this scheme and they exemplified the improvements made . |
| 25 | Political or policy crises are periods of intensive activity , when major decisions have to be made in conditions of acute uncertainty , under pressing deadlines , and where the potential consequences of making the ‘ wrong ’ decision are very threatening . |
| 26 | Many of our most active and fervently loyal members and supporters are members through direct entry . |
| 27 | Many of the shops are branches of multiple stores and , though their managers sometimes take part , they obviously do not have the same interest in it as the traders who were born and bred in the town . |
| 28 | mendelssohn 's Songs Without Words are groups of short pieces for piano arranged in ‘ Books ’ of six . |
| 29 | In other triangles are arrangements of triple peltae and series of small , filled , superposed triangles . |
| 30 | Proteins are strings of 20 kinds of amino acids , which usually fold up to form a large globular molecule . |