Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 ) How many notes are there in a Pentatonic scale ? |
| 2 | How many notes are there in a scale ? |
| 3 | 1 ) How many notes are there in a Triad ? |
| 4 | MY work has been written in sand and after my death will disappear in a decade or so , ’ wrote August Bournonville ( 1805–79 ) , the Danish choreographer whose ballets are still in the repertory , and whom the Danes have been celebrating with yet another Bournonville festival in Copenhagen . |
| 5 | Zebra finches are always on the lookout for sex outside their ‘ marriage ’ . |
| 6 | Communication links have been established on the Administration and Library LANs for the exchange of computer data with financial institutions and bibliographic databases , and discussions are underway on the use of the JANET system for the exchange of scientific data between academic institutions . |
| 7 | What two reasons are there for the Plymouth-Roscoff ferry route being less busy than other cross-Channel ferry routes ? |
| 8 | The objects are now in a safe , awaiting their reinstallation in the Nancy museum . |
| 9 | And the Copts are hardly in a position to complain . |
| 10 | More than 100 prisoners are still on the loose in 5 wings of the jail though police and warders today regained control of some sections including the remand block . |
| 11 | WHAT THE RULES SAY NOW Controlled trust accounts are now within the reporting accountant 's scope , and one of the rules relating to interest on clients ' money has changed too |
| 12 | Surface states are neither in the conduction band ( i.e. free , and able to conduct electricity ) nor in the valence band ( busy keeping the crystal structure together ) , but somewhere in between . |
| 13 | The Germans are just over the river there — I 'm off on a recce directly — and I have n't time to muck about . |
| 14 | The disciplines are always on the move , generating new meanings and insights . |
| 15 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 16 | ‘ It is also to be remarked , ’ wrote Wallace , ‘ that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for this subsidence , since the enormous masses of matter thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district ; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea . |
| 17 | Chairmen of football clubs are only in the papers and on the radio when the team is up the creek . |
| 18 | Game , local fish and fresh vegetables are frequently on the menu . |
| 19 | These very important projects are both within the Garden 's draft Strategic Plan for Information Services , which is currently under discussion . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , deregulation only applies to occupation agreements made after 15 January 1989 , and many potential cases are still in the pipeline . |
| 21 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 22 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 23 | The assertion that the courts are now in the business of adjudicating on the complex issue of sex is not a happy development towards this goal . |
| 24 | The purchase of the Stockholm group already means that more than 60% of Wolters Kluwer 's activities are now outside the Netherlands , an objective that the company had originally set out to achieve in 1994 . |
| 25 | " Success " he remarked " is not a matter of chance — how many hours are there in a week ? " |
| 26 | The choice of food and the way to spend the waking hours are entirely at the discretion of the volunteer . |
| 27 | The authoritarian parent or dutiful child attitudes that so often characterized these relationships in previous generations are thankfully on the way out . |
| 28 | These three fungicides are already on a UK Ministry of Agriculture ( MAFF ) list of 100 pesticides up for review , that have not been subject to modern tests . |
| 29 | Sedgefield constituency Labour Party , meanwhile , has replied gently to our suggestion ( Gadfly , June 3 ) that its meetings are strictly for the blokes . |
| 30 | He did not disclose the substance of the Libyan suggestions but a delegate at the meeting told Reuters : ‘ Libya 's proposals are still along the lines of its known positions , that the two could be tried only in a third country and not in the United States or Britain . ’ |