Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case is , I think , within the Fifth Case and whether this is so or not , it is , I think , within Sch D … the income is annual profits arising to a person residing in the United Kingdom from property situate elsewhere than in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | The income is 168 hours and remember you can not increase this even in times of severe inflation — you have all the time there is . |
| 3 | The tent was all colours and none , odd flurries of snow snaking over it sibilantly ; hardly exciting . |
| 4 | Among the items in the wreckage of the tent were two novels including one of Bonington 's . |
| 5 | The park is near Poitiers just 90 minutes from Paris by TGV , the famous high-speed train . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ There are people going hungry , but the majority are genuine cases of people struggling to make ends meet . |
| 7 | The majority are British labels but overseas exhibitors come from more than twenty countries including several from the United States . |
| 8 | ‘ On average , 37% of all organisations already have some form of office system installed , with another 14% planning installation in two years , of which the majority are larger companies . |
| 9 | In the twenty years after 1951 , Britain 's settlers from New Commonwealth countries increased from 0.2 million to 1.2 million , the majority being black workers attracted to England in the 1950s and 1960s by expanding job opportunities ( for more details , see The Runnymede Trust and the Radical Statistics Group , 1980 ) . |
| 10 | The commonest peripheral devices are undoubtedly printers , with the majority being dot-matrix types , including some letter-quality machines . |
| 11 | Often they were by a member of the staff of the RI , but the majority were outside speakers . |
| 12 | Most of the empire for which they were responsible had been settled by people outside the Church of England , of whom the majority were nonconformist Protestants , though there were a fair number of Roman Catholics in Maryland and in the West Indian islands to which Irishmen had gone . |
| 13 | But the majority were Welsh churches . |
| 14 | The majority were arboreal frugivores occupying much the same niche as equivalent-sized monkeys today . |
| 15 | Unfairly , the Scottish domestic ratepayer was badly hit and , in the area near to the constituency of the then Secretary of State for Scotland , the right hon. Member for Ayr ( Mr. Younger ) , the majority were Conservative voters . |
| 16 | The majority were German Shepherds but it is known that Rottweilers did contribute . |
| 17 | Refreshment facilities on the stand are good attractors , and from the results of the study this was deemed to be a major drawing force . |
| 18 | The music playing on the stand was vintage Shadows and as the guitars belted out ‘ Apache ’ David helped Belinda into one of the brightly coloured cars and Rachel followed Danny to another . |
| 19 | It has been estimated that 65 per cent of the deals are spot and the remainder are forward deals . |
| 20 | Apart from the ‘ flying ’ siddhi , the remainder are psychic gifts and we shall be looking at this area in the next two chapters . |
| 21 | A survey of married owner-occupier couples in 1971 found that 42 per cent had the home in the husband 's name , and only 5 per cent in the wife 's name , the remainder being joint mortgages ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ) . |
| 22 | The CDC was composed of one military officer , two former MPs and seven academics , the remainder being civil servants , lawyers and members of the NLA . |
| 23 | 88% reported a history of injected-drug use , and the remainder were sexual partners of IDUs. 50% had injected drugs in the six months before interview . |
| 24 | Of these , 700 were of a banking or economic nature ; 129 were industrial visits and the remainder were social events . |
| 25 | A mutual friend revealed last night : ‘ Pammy Jane is very popular and she and the prince are close friends . |
| 26 | Obviously , the size of the user 's habit and the predisposition of the GP were major factors in this . |
| 27 | The Karimojong are semi-nomadic pastoralists whose economic , social and cultural life revolves around cattle . |
| 28 | It 'll be lovely , it 's tomorrow , seven thirty at the Festival Hall , Kirkby in Ashfield , all the proceeds are to local charities and the admission is two pounds fifty , and that includes refreshments . |
| 29 | The BSc ( Social Science ) and the BCom are three-year degrees . |
| 30 | And I should say to the general assembly that the Board 's four homes for people with senile dementia are differently funded and any deficits there are made up by grants from health boards and social work departments which are prohibited from making up the deficit in eventide care . |