Example sentences of "be [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 2 | Possibly they are birds which have failed to breed successfully and have assembled here to moult . |
| 3 | The following are strategies which can be employed . |
| 4 | This chapter has tried to suggest that the poor image project work seems to have as a teaching method is not a necessary one , and that there are strategies which teachers and schools can employ to ensure that it becomes purposeful and systematic . |
| 5 | What they must consciously develop are strategies which will enable the same degree of information exchange with other culture and language groups through an interpreter . |
| 6 | But theirs are reasons which apply to them and which do not depend on , i.e. are not meant to reflect , reasons which apply to their subjects . |
| 7 | No description of the ammonoids is complete without mentioning the heteromorphs These are forms which abandoned the usual plane spiral mode of coiling , and instead became partially or even completely uncoiled , or became twisted in some other fashion . |
| 8 | This would be managed by those with an understanding that research and development are investments which produce a return , not merely a cost . |
| 9 | These are skills which can be simulated in the classroom , but teacher and learner need to work through situations together in the real world , so that learner can receive the support she needs . |
| 10 | These are skills which departments should be adept at developing . |
| 11 | The skills involved in drafting work , examining what has been written and thinking about what has been written in relation to the original purpose of the assignment are skills which teachers stress heavily . |
| 12 | Both family planning and soil conservation are activities which governments attempt to get people to undertake . |
| 13 | Walking and swimming are activities which can be as gentle or as vigorous as you care to make them . |
| 14 | These are activities which we would be unable to perform without a detailed knowledge of their personal circumstances , and trying to persuade them auditing is even necessary or that anything has changed since Uncle Albert 's day , is nigh on impossible and certainly not an adequate reason for an additional fee . |
| 15 | His past is made up very largely of futures — plans , expectations , anxieties , fantasies , dreams and visions — but they are futures which are closed : every forward thought is stalked by death . |
| 16 | These are generalities which describe a culture only now properly coming into view . |
| 17 | However , these are generalities which should not be allowed to prejudice us . |
| 18 | They hint that there are secrets which can only be divulged and discussed with those who have also been there … |
| 19 | However , many Type A organizations are monopolies which challenge the validity of this argument . |
| 20 | The issue , shortly stated , is whether there are touchings which do not qualify as treatment so that consent may be irrelevant . |
| 21 | There are artists whose inspiration and field of action is the landscape itself . |
| 22 | That is rarely , if ever , the case , but there are phenomena which approach it , and which need some thought . |
| 23 | Often there are projects whose cash flows do not follow the conventional pattern of an initial net outflow followed by a series of net cash inflows . |
| 24 | Thus in London at different times there have been groups which have called themselves the Society of Twelve , the Seven and Five , and One/Four . |
| 25 | Second , are States which ratify the Convention closer to its coming into force bound by the terms of the Convention , or the terms as altered by subsequent actions of non-parties . |
| 26 | A dozen spills later I came across the Stigma note : Indicia are signs which create a certain presumption ( proof ) . |
| 27 | If there are contracts which are essential to the conduct of the business , the purchaser should make obtaining consent to assign or novate these a condition precedent . |
| 28 | There are proposals which relate to earmarking all , or a proportion of revenue from specific consumption goods ( Denton 1982 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Sub-cultures ’ are cultures which exist in a context dominated by the decisions , values and attitudes of others . |
| 30 | Choropleth maps are maps which show the distribution of the magnitude of a variable such as population density for each of a set of areal units such as counties or enumeration districts . |