Example sentences of "[noun] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Illegible notes are more trouble than they are worth . |
| 2 | Former hooker Steve Jones has taken over from John Perkins as coach , included in their personnel are former Lions Staff Jones and Graham Price , and club captain Chris Huish , who announced his retirement at the end of last season . |
| 3 | Pa and Ma are both vegans . |
| 4 | The Liquid Faeries are all chicken wire guitars with a primitive production and basic arrangement . |
| 5 | The Liquid Faeries are all chicken wire guitars with a primitive production and basic arrangement . |
| 6 | Secondary qualities of objects are those arrangements of its corpuscles which cause certain ideas in us as sentient beings . |
| 7 | Registration and administrative and financial returns are all functions which computers can carry out in a modern general practice . |
| 8 | The Medical Research Council and National Radiological Protection Board are both contenders . |
| 9 | Also on board are another ex-gunman and an army deserter and , when the trawler breaks down , a plan is forged to rob a bank . |
| 10 | In neither case are these agreements directly part of the text of the Treaty and therefore of the constitutional law recognised by the Court of Justice . |
| 11 | Falling into this category are such items as farm buildings ( including farmsteads ) , replacement items such as fences , and machinery/equipment purchases . |
| 12 | Until this month , I thought that all anyone needs to know besides budget are such things as preferred processor ( a 486DX ) , speed ( at least 33MHz ) , hard disk size ( as big as the bucks allow ) , monitor type ( ditto ) and a familiar brand need which would be there forever to honour a warranty . |
| 13 | Retarded technologies are those energy technologies that were abandoned , technologies on which little R & D continued because of cheaper alternatives . |
| 14 | Accountants , personnel administrators , economists , data processing experts and statisticians are all experts in a specialised field of work . |
| 15 | The manager and chairman are such strangers to national television that probably less than 10 per cent of football fans would be able to name them , let alone recognise them . |
| 16 | Deliberate ambiguity , paradox and complexity are all techniques used by artists to prevent discrimination attaining complete clarity , thereby stimulating a prolonged and engrossing period of heightened activity . |
| 17 | These transformations are both isometries , but geometers need no encouragement to generalise the principle to include any transformation . |
| 18 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |
| 19 | Ps. livingstonii and Ps. elegans are both members of the Maylandia subgenus which also includes the rock dwelling Ps. zebra and its close relatives , and Ps. elegans is thought to be close to the ancestor of the ‘ Ps. zebra complex ’ ( Konings 1989 ) . |
| 20 | For under soft conventionalism our sample cases are all cases governed by law , and soft conventionalist judges deciding these cases would have no reason to defer to their beliefs about what the present legislature would do or what the will of the people is . |
| 21 | For the purposes of civil policing , subversive activities are those activities directly or indirectly involving criminal conduct , which threaten national security , or which are calculated to overthrow or undermine parliamentary democracy and the institutions of the state . |
| 22 | ‘ Other maps are such shapes , with their islands and capes ! |
| 23 | ‘ Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who 're cut out for the job . ’ |
| 24 | Two dangers of the purchaser-provider split are that collaboration among health care professionals may be undermined and the provider aspects of the public health role may become removed from the purchasing role . |
| 25 | Heavy teaching loads are another fact of life for the modern German academics and are often quoted as a bad influence on research . |
| 26 | The arms of the saltire are each split into four triangular fields , and carry a variety of geometrical and floral motif . |
| 27 | The knights are all followers of the god Ulric who is worshipped throughout the Empire , but most notably in the northern provinces , especially Middenland . |
| 28 | Since p , V and U are all properties of a system , that is they are all state functions , it follows from the above equation that H must also be a state function . |
| 29 | The most extreme forms are those species that have so-called ‘ lek ’ mating systems ( Figure 8.8 ) . |
| 30 | They claim 10,000 members , but if campaign finance forms are any indication , a few hundred hard-core activists is a more accurate estimate . |