Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACTORS dressed up as Vikings for a Welsh S4C documentary were challenged by local people in Swansea and accused of being New Age travellers . |
| 2 | Powerless to halt the irresistible Simon Irving and Paul Johnson , Howe led a spirited fightback with a try , to which Dave Cooke — the best of the title holders ' backs — added another , but Johnson later confirmed Yorkshire 's legitimate hopes of being northern group winners with a third score from the backs . |
| 3 | Take those away and all you 're left with is psychological value judgements . |
| 4 | The first idea she came up with was managing workplace nurseries for companies . |
| 5 | Hillier , who guided Langley from being perennial re-election candidates to a first division side in only two seasons , announced his decision to quit after yesterday 's 2–1 win Gretna . |
| 6 | From being little-known property owners , who were simply willing to risk where others hesitated , the Reichmanns were suddenly stars in the financial firmament of America . |
| 7 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 8 | However , since the essence of this form of enterprise is the relationship between the partners , to be successful business decisions must be made with the consensus of all partners . |
| 9 | However , companies which have ceased to be private client favourites include Tarmac , British Petroleum , Lonrho , Trafalgar House and Fisons . |
| 10 | During the same night some dozens of activists — presumed to be Shining Path members — wounded 15 policemen in attacks with automatic weapons on police stations in various of the city 's poorer zones . |
| 11 | But the main culprit seems to be modern farming techniques . |
| 12 | In the early hours of the following day , persons widely suspected to be Round Table supporters shot at and then ransacked and set on fire the offices on Rustaveli Prospekt used by the National Democratic Party and the National Independence Party ( both part of the so-called Congress Movement ) . |
| 13 | The thread I have chosen to follow is that of houses I consider to be perfect period pieces or exceptional architectural masterpieces , and hence they are not always conventionally representative of their particular period . |
| 14 | Although the MECs are often influential bodies and have a valuable information role , they are not typically felt to be good decision-making bodies enabling doctors to make prompt and positive contributions to management . |
| 15 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 16 | The forgeries are said to be good quality copies . |
| 17 | These sulphur-anion interactions are not unexpected ; they are a common feature of 1,2-disulphur cations because these functional units tend to be moderate electron acceptors . |
| 18 | The reasons for this we consider to be legitimate business affairs . |
| 19 | Aside from the standard rock fare of pentatonic and blues scales his preferred types seem to be major scale modes such as Aeolian , Dorian , Mixolydian and Lydian . |
| 20 | Which places have grown to be major market towns in the central Pennines , and which river is each on ? |
| 21 | Fuel burn at around 11 gallons per hour was what one might expect from the power plant , and the aircraft would undoubtedly benefit from turbo-charging although as always the trade-off in this is going to be increased maintenance costs . |
| 22 | Later on the 40 pins will reveal themselves to be tiny light bulbs . |
| 23 | Plus his monologue and repartee with his studio audience , Hall was proud to be street-smart retailing in-jokes and zinging forth slang which is all black , yet hardly all middle class . |
| 24 | A new and successful innovation was the evolution of stemless crinoids — some of these acquired pelagic habits , and during the Cretaceous the genera Marsupites and Uintacrinus ( see p.79 ) were widespread enough to be useful marker fossils . |
| 25 | It is easily found near the cluster M11 ; λ and 12 Aquilæ act as guides but both are too bright to be useful comparison stars , and so is α Scuti . |
| 26 | Whatever may be the limits of Article 235 , and it has been noted that it gave rise , even before the Community acquired its express environmental competence , to legislation on the conservation of wild birds , examples can be found of the development of what would appear to be new Community policies , without even a reference to Article 235 . |
| 27 | The most committed readers , those claiming to buy every issue , tended to be male horse owners , aged 45 or older . |
| 28 | They tend to be lush period pieces set in Amazonia with Spanish , Italian , French , British or even American actors in the lead roles . |
| 29 | The only enterprises to be excluded from this plan were to be geothermal power stations , the central airport , and " possibly " the railways and other important national facilities . |
| 30 | Individuals whose primary activity is to buy and sell animals , for example , will not be eligible to be flat rate farmers ; neither will trainers of animals . |