Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun pl] be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the Luftwaffe men was an officer and the other a Feldwebel . |
| 2 | The Vincent Arms is an old building with pseudo black beams made from railway sleepers . |
| 3 | Yet these divergences did not necessarily mean that the Plantagenet dominions were an incoherent and ‘ overextended ’ political , economic , geographical and cultural agglomeration . |
| 4 | The Devonian placoderms are an especially exciting group of fish ( see p. 4 ) with powerful , armour-plated heads and frequently fang-like teeth , the function of which is obviously predatory . |
| 5 | To the north-west of Nuneaton , similar multidisciplinary resurveys coupled with detailed work in the active and disused quarries of the Hartshill-Stockingford area have shown that the so-called Boundary Fault separating the Precambrian and Lower Cambrian successions from the Triassic rocks is an unconformity , thus indicating that hard-rock resources are significantly greater than hitherto supposed . |
| 6 | The Melrose Partnerships are an unregulated collective investment scheme arranged by Neill Clerk , the Scottish solicitors , and issued by MM & K Ltd . |
| 7 | The codification effort that culminated in the Hague conventions was an attempt to control the increased scale of warfare brought about by the transition from relatively small professional armies to large conscript ones , and the growth in the destructive power of weapons consequent on the growth of large-scale modern industry . |
| 8 | The events surrounding the Connolly commemorations were an important indicator of the difficulty of reconciling Ulster Protestants to nationalist pageantry , no matter how much it was stressed that the traditions being commemorated included the Protestants . |
| 9 | A century ago the Oban Times was an international newspaper . |