Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that at the moment it is being used closest to the hook , where presentation and visibility are vital factors and , because it is so different to nylon , many users have problems knotting it . |
| 2 | Its institutions , in their increasing centrality , have moved towards a situation in which it , could again be said ( but with the qualitative difference of an epochal change ) that cultural institutions are integral parts of the general social organization . |
| 3 | For example , the redder fishes like salmon , tuna , sardines , and kippers are good sources of polyunsaturated fat . |
| 4 | you know that is the , erm two or three things there , you 're working by yourself in your , your personal preparation prepa preparation are crucial parts , erm , if any of the people were thinking of going to erm , erm , a college , erm , the same sort of thing will arise and I suppose the big difference for if you do n't have lessons then I think I 'm right in saying you do n't necessarily have to go in , I do n't know whether that still applies , erm , you would be expected of course to erm , erm , to turn up at school here , erm , now there are advantages and disadvantages , you may feel that you prefer , knowing on your own what you 're like , you 'll prefer erm some fairly rigid rules , erm , because if there were n't rules you might think you 'd take advantage of us |
| 5 | Old US mines are big polluters |
| 6 | The peat and silt are rich soils on which farmers obtain high yields without using as much expensive artificial fertiliser as elsewhere . |
| 7 | Understanding of the total care of a patient is not helped by references such as S.O.B. , N.B.M. or T.L.C. In addition , the care plans and progress notes are professional records . |
| 8 | Fossil Typhis are frequent fossils in the Eocene rocks of Europe . |
| 9 | These expert riders are skilled bowmen whose usual tactic is to ride around their enemies , pouring volley after volley of arrows into them . |
| 10 | But communications satellites are artificial moons . |
| 11 | Deftly turning the conversation , she said , ‘ Betty tells me the village people are very intrigued by the two veterinary practices here , and Joanna would n't be too pleased if she knew that they are firmly under the impression that you only do small animals and Robert and Ian are large-animal vets . ’ |
| 12 | But some commentators believe that it may also be because , unlike other cartel kingpins , Escobar and Rodriguez Gacha are social upstarts who have clawed their way out of the gutter . |
| 13 | As you travel eastward the route joins the River Almond where dippers and herons are familiar sights . |
| 14 | It has been estimated that 65 per cent of the deals are spot and the remainder are forward deals . |
| 15 | Apart from the ‘ flying ’ siddhi , the remainder are psychic gifts and we shall be looking at this area in the next two chapters . |
| 16 | Do you think their reasons are good ones ? |
| 17 | The most obvious of these reasons are political ones , in the pure , party , vote-catching sense of that term . |
| 18 | It also helps to show that more fundamental than any knowledge of objects are certain feelings , needs and desires , and that it is upon a phenomenological elucidation of such feelings , needs and desires that an ontological description of the world must be based . |
| 19 | Some researchers ( for example , Bates 1976 ; Lock 1980a ) have gone a step further and proposed that the non-verbal communicative skills which are displayed in ‘ showing ’ and ‘ requesting ’ objects are direct precursors to the linguistic functions of ‘ telling ’ or ‘ giving information ’ and ‘ asking questions ’ . |
| 20 | His occasional demands for ‘ surplusage ’ respecting the extent to which his disbursements exceeded his receipts on particular accounts are eloquent illustrations of the scale of these activities : for example , £26,000 for operations in the Palatinate in 1624 , and £30,000 on another account in 1630 . |
| 21 | This and the following chapter of Hymenoptera defence are much-needed surveys of the recent , complex analyses of defensive chemicals and their origins . |
| 22 | Overall , the southern States are major beneficiaries of Federal spending , especially so relative to their contributions to the Federal exchequer , in considerable part because of the success of their Senators and Representatives in the pork barrel . |
| 23 | The further assumption of public choice theory , that states are rational actors and interact rationally with each other , has led many scholars in this field to follow the lead of the economists — who in turn were following the mathematicians — to use game theory and to make limiting assumptions about the nature and duration of the game . |
| 24 | Note 46 to the accounts shows the effect on revenue and reserves of adopting equity accounting for the whole of the equity investment portfolio regardless of whether the investments are associated undertakings or not . |
| 25 | Freddie Fox , Graham Smith and Phillip Somerville are great individualists who between them dress the heads of the entire Royal Family , among countless other notables . |
| 26 | ‘ Five out of six people on the Greater Glasgow health board are card-carrying members of the Tory party . |
| 27 | Just as the trauma in the first five years of life of a child is forgotten , but appears later in the symptoms of neurotic illness , so the trauma of parricide has been forgotten , but makes its appearance in symptoms which in this case are religious actions and beliefs . |
| 28 | Both the Forum for Citizens ' Television and the Japan Lutheran Hour are corporate members of WACC . |
| 29 | ( ‘ Ducks are comical things … ’ ) |
| 30 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |