Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cultures sons are given priority , others give daughters priority , following the McIver principle ‘ when you educate a man you educate an individual : when you educate a woman you educate a whole family ’ . |
| 2 | Southampton University researchers are testing flypaper impregnated with a sex stimulant and insecticide . |
| 3 | ( Though of course one of the most efficient ways of removing women from the printing houses was to propose marriage , and this was more than once half-seriously proposed as a deliberate strategy . ) |
| 4 | 4m homes are to get water meters. |
| 5 | With their players ' salaries soaring , baseball clubs are pleading poverty |
| 6 | All this chapter attempts is to offer guidance on how to find the way through the statutory provisions which , understandably , tend to be expressed in accountants ' language rather than that of lawyers . |
| 7 | The effect of forcing loan redemptions through revenue accounts was to link financing of the assets with accounting for them . |
| 8 | The government , denying that it held any political prisoners , ordered the women to end their protest , saying that opposition supporters were taking advantage of it to cause unrest . |
| 9 | Radio and television reporting of the campaign was alleged to have been heavily weighted in favour of the NSF , although opposition parties were granted access to the government-controlled media . |
| 10 | Until 10 May , the Di Meo brothers are presenting ink drawings and gouaches produced by Joseph Suma in the years 1924 to 1970 , thereby supplementing the retrospective being staged by the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris . |
| 11 | The segmental transposition involving six carbon atoms is called crankshaft motion and is believed to require an activation energy of about 25 kJ mol -1 . |
| 12 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 13 | Research Machines is offering advice to help former employees find new employmemt , but the outlook for these former computer workers , many now in their prime , looks uncertain . |
| 14 | Both back and front seat passengers were wearing seat belts . |
| 15 | It was not the boat aspect of his idea , rowing boats are permitted on the lake , but some of the club members are saying echo sounders are unsporting . |
| 16 | Games became more difficult in Ottawa , generally the ice became much quicker — at one Club members were having difficulty with the speed of the ice . |
| 17 | The December 1989 referendum and new Constitution were designed as major elements in this process , while in the preceding two years several former opposition leaders were given Cabinet posts . |
| 18 | This showed that the conditions in space were unusual and that unusual chemical processes were taking place , and they were then producing molecules that we did n't expect . |
| 19 | Canadian group Friends of the Rain Forest is organising a boycott of Petro-Canada , which has an oil exploration concession in Burma , saying that " oil investment dollars are helping turn mainland Asia 's last significant forested region into a wasteland . |
| 20 | COLLEGE students are raising money for a hospital in a battle of the sexes . |
| 21 | In the course of a demonstration in Kinshasa , the capital , on May 14 , two training college students were reported shot dead and a further 15 wounded in a confrontation with security forces , five of whom were also said to have been wounded . |
| 22 | The letters , copies of which were obtained by Far Eastern Economic Review , show that systematic breaches of forestry and revenue laws are taking place . |
| 23 | Even if play areas are created off-street , the impression must not be given that the rest of the street is not intended for playing children . |
| 24 | Fights between rival gangs of lager louts were turning town centres into no-go areas on Friday and Saturday nights , so a report was commissioned . |
| 25 | The wing chun butterfly knives are called baht jam do , which translates roughly as ‘ eight-cutting broadswords ’ . |
| 26 | This and other studies ( e.g. Cole and Fichtler 1983 , Stohlgren and Parsons 1986 ) have led to the conclusion that the most appropriate management strategy for such wilderness areas is to restrict camping to a few designated sites , where activity can be sustained without excessive damage . |
| 27 | The major IT requirement at the specialist gardens is to service information points within visitor centres . |
| 28 | But those big percentage reductions are taking place at a point on the network where the southern bypass has already reduced the flows , so th those parts of the network would be much less in need of relief . |
| 29 | This is a major disadvantage for home users where the most common use of videocassette machines is to record off-air . |
| 30 | RENT arrears among council tenants are reaching record levels , mainly because of rent increases and housing benefit reductions imposed by the Government in April last year , according to the Audit Commission for Local Authorities . |