Example sentences of "[noun] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MMITs are the building blocks for microwave systems used in satellite TV dishes and cellular radio systems . |
| 2 | For his purposes data sheets are ideal and standard tests laid down by the national standards institutions are the methods that he uses . |
| 3 | Amongst the criticisms of UK financial institutions are the allegations that UK banks place too great an emphasis on lending to consumers , whereas overseas banks are primarily concerned with long-term industrial finance . |
| 4 | Such institutions are the envy of many Arab countries for they reflect a commitment to national identity that one will seek in vain in most parts of the Arab world . |
| 5 | Over the decade since 1973 the main features of the energy demand reduction are the 36% fall in oil consumption , the 66% rise in gas consumption and the 80% increase in nuclear power consumption . |
| 6 | sure that 's right but I mean I think the beginners are the people coming in new to the bis |
| 7 | For Mr information the vacancies are the difference between the number of beds we maintain and the number of residence we have . |
| 8 | Most burglaries are the work of petty thieves on the look our for an easy opportunity . |
| 9 | Of the four remaining switches , Soft Clipping takes some of the harsh overtones out of the sound while H.F. Distortion does the opposite ; screaming harmonics are the order of the day here . |
| 10 | These magnitudes are the outcomes of hypothetical thought experiments on the part of firms . |
| 11 | Alongside the notes are the kind of broad historical questions that you need to learn to ask about any topic and which have generated the headings . |
| 12 | These habitual acts are the rituals of sanity . |
| 13 | The Jovian satellites are the subject of section 9.4 . |
| 14 | The sort of girls who would quickly come to the fore are the sort of Malory-Towers-Swallows-and-Amazons type ; practical down to earth and capable , but there would probably be many unlike that who would be perfectly handless when it came to organisation and practicalities . |
| 15 | The best reasons are the objectivity and credibility of an independent audit . |
| 16 | I do n't even mind ( much ) that these reasons are the cause , in one case , of a 78 per cent difference in the price advertised . |
| 17 | The first thing I learned in running the Grand Canyon are The Rules . |
| 18 | The gems are the TV channels . |
| 19 | The most pernicious causes of contamination for PCR are the products of previous reactions . |
| 20 | Much more popular with the prisoners are the range of Vocational Training Courses ( VTC ) which take men for a period of 20 or 26 weeks , give them a thorough training in a particular skill and enable them to take outside examinations . |
| 21 | Under this heading in the accounts are the costs of the transport of the dressed copper ore , from the mine to the quay on the lake side , and from there by boat to the copper house at Nibthwaite at the foot of the lake . |
| 22 | So , repression , it 's not that Freud dropped the concept of repression but that he elaborated it and made it much more sophisticated , and the mechanisms of defence are the means , you could say they 're the means by which er repression erm comes about . |
| 23 | So erm the mechanisms of defence are the means that the ego uses to stop itself being worried by any , anything that might seem to , that might seem to throw them . |
| 24 | The sculpted figures of mineworkers with their lamps are the work of M. B. Braun from 1721–5 and are a salient reminder that without the silver mines of Jihlava and Kutná Hora royal patronage of the arts would not have been possible . |
| 25 | EVEN though Robert Doisneau denies Denise and Jean-Lois Lavergne are the Paris lovers in his famous 1950 shot the similarities are too great to be coincidental . |
| 26 | However , while the cases where multi-ethnic and multi-communal states have fractured , or are close to breaking , naturally attract most attention — the partition of the Indian sub- continent in 1947 , the splitting of Pakistan , the demands for Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka — it should never be forgotten that these are special cases in a world where multi-ethnic and multi- communal states are the norm . |
| 27 | There is a naive search space , whose states are the situations which you could produce , and the real space whose states record ways of obtaining naive states . |
| 28 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 29 | Until comparatively recently this hope looked greatly at odds with the realities of international law which was prepared to acknowledge the sovereignty and hence the legality of states whose boundaries or existence are the result of force , uphold treaties imposed by coercion , and in general allow that war is an international sphere . |
| 30 | In neither case are the conditions to which the product may be subjected precisely known . |