Example sentences of "they be [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among them are problems of air and water quality and waste in rapidly expanding third world cities . |
| 2 | The performance revolves round rows of hissingly-hot pressure cookers , which are brought to the point of pressure ; suspended above them are boxes of ice , with nails and bits and pieces , which drop on to the pressure cooker lids as the ice melts . |
| 3 | Most notable amongst them are methods of database management and statistical processing . |
| 4 | They are communities of interest , sharing opportunities and obligations . |
| 5 | Executive Job Clubs have been set up , but for many they are havens of retreat where preconceptions can be themselves an obstacle to the need for change . |
| 6 | They are Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine , Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind , Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke and Foreign Office Minister Tristan Garel-Jones . |
| 7 | They are icons of money and sex . |
| 8 | In this view , teachers , like other people , are not just bundles of skill , competence and technique ; they are creators of meaning , interpreters of the world and all it asks of them . |
| 9 | They are documents of record , and they provide basic information for an initial selection or ‘ interview ’ . |
| 10 | Not only are these changes demanding to implement , they are sources of doubt and concern in teachers ' minds . |
| 11 | They are sources of energy — indeed they contain twice as much energy per unit weight as either carbohydrate or protein . |
| 12 | Distinguishing some children 's books as ‘ classics ’ does serve one valuable purpose : it is the recognition that they are works of merit in their own right . |
| 13 | If there has been little theoretical change , or if they are works of art in their own right — and especially if they are decorative — then illustrations can have a useful life much longer than the text which accompanied them . |
| 14 | Old hands wear leather gloves , old heads wear fur hats , as if they are badges of office : we hunt , we trap , we tame . |
| 15 | Rather , they are forms of politics and working class organisations which seem best to represent the interests of individuals and close kin . |
| 16 | Extending these ideas , there have also been suggestions from socio-cultural anthropologists who have a leaning towards sociobiology , that , although the details of customs and moral rules and relational behaviours have to be learned afresh by each individual they are matters of culture — we may already know in advance how to organize such conventions into structured patterns by virtue of a genetically endowed predisposition to become enculturated . |
| 17 | They are patterns of information that can thrive only in brains or the artificially manufactured products of brains — books , computers , and so on . |
| 18 | They are problems of poverty , inefficiency , and unemployment , which are reflected in other symptoms of backwardness , such as corruption and law-breaking . |
| 19 | They are engines of propaganda for the constantly changing policies , desires , personal wishes , personal likes and dislikes of two men . |
| 20 | In another sense , however , they are part of the same package for they are part of government attempts to bring employment and labour together irrespective of whether the aid is given to industry or to labour . |
| 21 | They are part of preparation for life and , provided they do not get out of hand , do no harm whatever . |
| 22 | They are part of history . |
| 23 | They are part of SCIENCE . |
| 24 | They are clouds of gas or tiny particles , or lumps of uniform matter like crystals , with almost endlessly repeated atomic patterns . |
| 25 | The Atlantic and the Indian Ocean receive their due share of tropical cyclonic storms too , but in the Pacific , because of its vastness , they are visitations of destruction and tragedy like nowhere else in the world . |
| 26 | They are pieces of software which have been written to perform a particular function . |
| 27 | They are pieces of writing which are distinct in law ; the author of the one could not be sued for the other , or for collaborating in it . |
| 28 | The waves ca n't be seen , because they are waves of air pressure . |
| 29 | One is that most acquired characters are disadvantageous — they are results of injury , disease , and old age . |
| 30 | But individual spaces are not exemplifying instances of the concept of space ; they are parts of space , just as individual times are parts of a single universal time . |