Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] are [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowded conditions into which the elephant seal pups are born are , if anything , a disadvantage to them , but other young animals rely on great numbers for their safety . |
| 2 | We have only to look at what has happened in England and Wales to see why the fears that Opposition Members are expressing are so strongly founded . |
| 3 | The broad foundation on which our degree specialisations are built is considered particularly desirable by employers in industry and other fields . |
| 4 | In particular the way in which the zone boundaries are digitized is not compatible . |
| 5 | All that football , hockey and even rugby followers are watching is mere games . |
| 6 | However , the questions and issues this material raises about the way primary classrooms are organized are worth presenting as an extension of those above . |
| 7 | The manner in which fault and symptom relationships are handled is dependent on the chosen type of problem representation . |
| 8 | The purposes for which business letters are used are many but some of the most important are listed below : |
| 9 | For example , suppose we had two fields ( or character strings ) in the store at addresses 300 and 350 , as shown in Figure 2.20 ( a ) ; the addresses are those of the right.hand characters of the fields , and the characters whose word mark bits are set are indicated by underlining . |
| 10 | We can see that the quality of education students are getting is deteriorating . |
| 11 | The way that university library budgets are calculated is changing , and there is no reliable overview of current practice . |
| 12 | The levels at which state pensions are paid is , therefore , crucial to the standard of living of older people . |
| 13 | All dog shows where championship points are awarded are held under the rules and regulations of the American Kennel Club , who are responsible for providing qualified judges , keeping records of points and a register of pure-bred dogs . |
| 14 | Because the upper limits of resolution depend on the acoustic wavelength being used , the path researchers are following is to increase the sound frequency , thereby shortening the wavelength . |
| 15 | Survival instinct is absolutely incredible , to see the wounds of a terrier and a fox when they have locked jaw locked and are pulled squealing out of a hole , I think I am deeply concerned about anybody here today that can turn that blind eye because what their terrier men are doing is dog fighting , make no bones about it , they wo n't be interested in laying the scent , they will not be interested in being retrained and helping your fraternity . |
| 16 | So what the pollen cells are doing are investing in mating success . |
| 17 | The extent to which insect flight-muscles are developed is , as one would expect , correlated with the capacity for flight . |
| 18 | We are learning that the way institutions are organized is increasingly a problem for men as well as women . |
| 19 | In England the courts are almost certain to take the view that the way taxes are spent is a political question which the courts are not the proper bodies to consider , and that no taxpayer has sufficient interest to raise this matter in court . |
| 20 | No historian , for instance , would study the economy of a modern society by an examination of its coins ( or banknotes ) ; even questions about the way coins are used are usually better answered from anecdotal evidence . |
| 21 | But important changes in the way computers are sold are beginning to favour the Japanese |
| 22 | Such considerations lead to the idea that the way non-words are read is by first dividing them up into their graphemes ( CHOOPH-CH + OO + PH or SLOATCH — S + L + OA + TCH ) and then using a table of grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules to find the appropriate phoneme for each grapheme . |
| 23 | In that regard , does my hon. Friend agree that the commission that the Secretary of State has set up under Professor Alexander to look at the way in which primary school children are taught is particularly welcome ? |
| 24 | A second visit to provide expert advice on the running of a laboratory in which mineral exploration samples are analysed is planned for May 1991 . |
| 25 | Catriona Marchant investigates what youth justice workers are finding is wrong — and right — with the new Act |
| 26 | Written dialogue in which , as here , source markers are suspended is at once nearer to and farther from children 's experience than is the form with source markers present . |