Example sentences of "be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 The input ’ bottom ’ layer is called layer 1 , and the output ’ top ’ layer is numbered M. There are Nk nodes in the kth layer .
32 William was born on Monday 9 April 1849 — the only one not to bear a middle Christian name , but then , of course , there had been William Titfords galore back to the 17th century , so the boy was in good company .
33 An important influence here has been William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) which abandons linear sequence in favour of smaller episodes often beginning with pastiches of other texts ( detective novels of the 1940s , film-scripts , etc. ) which are then broken down .
34 Another had been William Temple , Butler 's necessary ally in the passing of his Act .
35 ( One member of the Silverlock family married Matilda de Langford , whose first husband had been William de Mohun — see page 28 . )
36 In Kent , Edward IV 's sheriff had been William Haute , brother of the arrested Richard Haute , and he was now replaced by Sir Henry Ferrers of Peckham , a former servant of Edward IV and a nephew of William lord Hastings .
37 In Kent , Edward IV 's sheriff had been William Haute , brother of the arrested Richard Haute , and he was now replaced by Sir Henry Ferrers of Peckham , a former servant of Edward IV and a nephew of William lord Hastings .
38 Further documentary evidence of his life and work is scanty , but because his will is listed with those in the parish of St Sepulchre , just outside the walls of the City , it has been suggested that his father may have been William Larkin , the host of the Rose inn in that parish .
39 First founded in 1514 , the most famous pupil to date has been William Wilberforce , the slave law reformer .
40 A key figure in the conspiracy was alleged to have been William Casey .
41 Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills .
42 Are humanities scholars alone interested in applying computer technologies to texts ?
43 Those are fiction paperbacks .
44 At Belize , a twenty-minute hop away , there are camouflage nets and sandbags and RAF Hawks and squaddies with pink British faces .
45 The place gave Johnson another whiff of anthropology : here he stood as if in Africa or Arabia , greeting wild natives in their habitat : these Macraes might have been Xhosa tribesmen , or Tuaregs : ‘ The villagers gathered about us in considerable numbers , I believe without any evil intention , but with a very savage wildness of aspect and manner . ’
46 There are money matters , investments , tax affairs to be considered .
47 They are money channels that take a fee for the channelling service .
48 Well I think there 's every chance that it will get the go-ahead er I mean obviously er there are money restraints but I 'm sure that the District Council will be able to come up with the appropriate amount .
49 The most important examples of money market securities that are quoted on a yield basis are money market deposits and negotiable certificates of deposit .
50 Throughout the text there are case studies which are designed to illustrate to students the relevance of the subject matter contained in the text .
51 There are n states of nature and he receives a return of if he takes action i and the state is j .
52 In division we have a dividend N and a divisor D , and require a quotient Q and remainder R such that The divisor , quotient , and remainder are n bits long , and the dividend is 2n bits long .
53 Then there are n stages , each of which generates one quotient bit and a new partial remainder .
54 Heising has pointed out that if n records are randomized into N addresses , there are N n possible record distributions , only of which allocate no more than one record to any address .
55 Consider a volume v under shear stress — in which there are N elements capable of changing heir position .
56 Each iteration of the while-loop therefore takes time O(n) ; since there are n iterations , the total time for the loop is O(n2) .
57 The children are n source of information about the community . ’
58 And I think the documents that we have put in are N Y one , posi various positions er statements , Paper N Y two , described as population household economic activity rate projections , assumptions and methodology .
59 There are N C V O members and staff , my fellow honorary officers and executive members , and so many others who have made it such a rewarding time .
60 If C is square , of order n , and non-singular , the pencil is described as regular , since in the polynomial equation obtained by expansion of unc the coefficient unc which does not vanish , so that there are n eigenvalues i which satisfy ( 1 ) .
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