Example sentences of "[noun sg] be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data collected in budget preparation and monitoring are an invaluable input to a management information system which may be used to analyse trends within or between projects or perhaps between design groups in an engineering consultancy . |
| 2 | Regional unemployment and regional recession are an economic loss to the whole nation and they will not rectify themselves on their own . |
| 3 | Thus , electric currents in liquid metallic hydrogen are an obvious candidate for the source of Jupiter 's large internal magnetic dipole moment . |
| 4 | The angels round the base are an addition of 1772 . |
| 5 | Among the ideas being floated by those owners who see television as their saviour are an expansion of the National and American leagues from two divisions each to three divisions each ; the introduction of regular season games between clubs in the two leagues ; and the involvement of eight clubs , rather than the present four , in play-off games at the end of the season . |
| 6 | Training and product support are an essential part of a franchise agreement . |
| 7 | In addition , the prevention of disfiguring scars , the generation of functional new tissue and prevention of regression are an integral part of wound management |
| 8 | The authors explore the idea that causal attributions made by survivors about their experience are an important mediating variable . |
| 9 | Some , if not all , of these methods of teaching are an everyday part of normal religious education in many Catholic Schools . |
| 10 | The fulminations of the Hebrew prophets such as Amos , Hosea and Jeremiah against the betrayal of religion are an example . |
| 11 | ( Articles of association are an agreement between the company and its members and between the members : Companies Act 1985 , s14 . ) |
| 12 | There is increasing evidence that shortcomings in the industrial building stock are an obstacle to better national economic performance . |
| 13 | Very few of the large predatory species of fish swim in schools , though barracuda are an exception . |
| 14 | And the loos in his club are an ideal confessional box to hear the virginal hopes of Sue ( Nikki Belsher ) , Sharon ( Nikki Brooks ) , Shirl ( Joanne Engelsman ) and Bridget ( Judith Ellis ) , looking for romantically inclined Mr Right . |
| 15 | Comparisons in blood are an inadequate measure of courage or military achievement , but these raiders ' losses were a far greater proportion of their force — 369 from 611 army and naval personnel — than were lost in the World War I blocking of Zeebrugge when 195 men were killed from a force of 1,784 . |
| 16 | Significantly a third of them regularly took their cars abroad , where the lower diesel fuel prices on the Continent are an added attraction . |
| 17 | The judiciary are an estate of the Crown and the servants of statute , and may therefore be supposed to be under a duty to reflect the public will . |
| 18 | Where teachers have sought to accommodate the subject requirements of the National Curriculum , have they achieved a truer balance than that shown by our figures , or has the result been an imbalance even more marked than that which obtained previously ? |
| 19 | In the course of ordinary life many of the kinds of activities that could fairly be described as research are an aid to practical decisions and conclusions , answer practical problems . |
| 20 | As the royal family have large estates in Scotland and Norfolk where hunting , shooting and fishing are an integral part of land management , they were very worried about the future . |
| 21 | Also , it takes an austere mind not to believe that the scope and limits of individual human action are an absolutely central theoretical crux for the social sciences . |
| 22 | Saprophytic fungi like coral spot on mulch are an indication of insufficient hoeing . |
| 23 | I also wagered itd be an advantage for corners to get several players sticking to each other in steps to get a 10ft player . |
| 24 | However , there will always in practice be an unmatched position . |
| 25 | So though it is hard to imagine the stealthy fighter-bombers , map-reading cruise missiles and pinpoint bombs that won the Gulf war being beaten by Brazilian , Chinese or Russian weapons for decades , there is a good argument for what will now in effect be an arms race by America against itself . |
| 26 | As Annette Kuhn has argued , Hollywood as a ‘ dream-machine ’ under the studio system worked as a configuration of forces acting together , of which cinematic characteristics , as well as the institutional framework of economic structures and power relations in the industry were an important part . |
| 27 | He did so partly by relying on the unquestioned fact that death and violence were an integral element in many books which were already on the way to becoming children 's classics ; from a list compiled rather later in the century one might cite Grimm 's Fairy Tales , Hans Andersen 's and the expurgated Arabian Nights . |
| 28 | There is nothing theoretically which hinders religion being an ingredient , or even predominating in the nationalist mix . |
| 29 | Other children by Taj ol Molok were an elder daughter Shams and a son Alii Rezal , who died in a plane crash in 1954 . |
| 30 | The second relates to what I said about the evaporation/solar-flares analogy being an external relation . |