Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Cable Television Association says that in February , the number of telephone exchange lines operated by cable companies rose 10,209 to a total of 126,687 : of these , 108,900 are residential lines , 17,787 are business connections . |
| 2 | quite a long time now I begin to understand there are M S twos and threes are project engineers , and I |
| 3 | Of the MPR 's members 500 are from the House of Representatives ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat — DPR ) , the country 's legislative organ , and the remaining 500 are government appointees ( often from the armed forces ) , delegates of regional assemblies and representatives of parties and groups , the latter appointed in proportion to their elective seats in the DPR . |
| 4 | The most obvious examples of this are contingency theories of a ‘ culture-free ’ variety ( Hickson et al. , 1974 ) but it is also the case with certain kinds of institutional theory , such as in Biggart and Hamilton 's ( 1987 : 437 ) hypothesis that ‘ [ l ] eadership strategies in any one socio-cultural setting will have strong underlying similarities ’ . |
| 5 | That one was associated with the English dance explosion , but none of the tracks on this are dance records and they do n't pretend to be . ’ |
| 6 | Some are service agencies providing painting and decorating , gardening and catering services to the local community ; others have developed workshops which concentrate on one business activity — baking , furniture renovation and picture-framing are examples . |
| 7 | Some are street kids who rely on their ingenuity to keep alive . |
| 8 | Some are police cars or rental vehicles , for example , but most are kept by individual drivers . |
| 9 | Some are workaday freighters from Russia , Panama and Japan , their crews leaning over the rails chewing , drinking from mugs and watching the passing scene with a worldly dispassion . |
| 10 | Some are cash crops , particularly wheat which the farmers sell to the flour mills in Leith and Glasgow , and barley , about half of which is sold for making beer and whisky in Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 11 | First and foremost are road accidents and the impact of the risk of accidents — the two are not synonymous — on the behaviour of other road users such as the elderly and children . |
| 12 | Of the 80 guests in Bitez , about 30 are dinghy sailors who arrive once a fortnight for a two week holiday . |
| 13 | Pictured are exchange students from Canada and the USA with David Taylor , Chairman of the Undergraduate Programme . |
| 14 | How I blush now : I suppose 140 were line bites and 27 times a bream had a bait gingerly between its lips . |
| 15 | The lights that were fainter were memory buoys . |
| 16 | In September 1968 the CNAA had approved a total of 213 courses , of which 175 were undergraduate courses and 12 were MSc courses . |
| 17 | Many of the 53 were line engravings such as were commonly taken from existing portraits in oils : the Mercier picture seems , though , to have escaped this treatment and was not copied until the age of the photogravure plate . |
| 18 | Some were heather bogs , some bracken bogs and others were boggy floodlands of marsh grass . |
| 19 | Some were probation officers in training and some from County Hall , who had not yet specialised , but were hoping to . |
| 20 | In September 1968 the CNAA had approved a total of 213 courses , of which 175 were undergraduate courses and 12 were MSc courses . |
| 21 | Of forty-two sub-seneschals appointed between 1254 and 1317 ( of Agenais , Bigorre , Landes , Périgord , Quercy , Limousin and Saintonge ) no less than thirty-nine were Gascon nobles , two were English and one was a Savoyard . |
| 22 | But we know this is marble chippings you know you were getting this carbon dioxide off . |
| 23 | a waste , a waste of education , right this is Carlisle Sports for the Disabled |
| 24 | The theological term for this is analogia fidei ; that is to say , when we talk of eternal verities we have to resort to pictures , stories and other analogical expressions . |
| 25 | and there 's one in there This is January savers and there 's another catalogue . |
| 26 | ‘ This is Hills Brothers 50–50 , 50 per cent caffeine , for people who ca n't make up their minds , ’ he says , rinsing out a couple of mugs . |
| 27 | On the first leg of the flight to Tehran , courtesy of one of the aircraft that also helped with contra resupply , North told Cave ‘ This is Democracy Airlines , ’ and laughed ; Cave had no notion what he meant . |
| 28 | One quarter of this is wine imports . |
| 29 | A widely-cited instance of this is Hopewell Holdings , the construction and property group controlled and managed by Gordon Wu . |
| 30 | RELAXING AFTER The Searchers but still masterly , this is Howard Hawks ' critique of High Noon , arguing a true professional like Wayne would n't waste his time begging amateurs for help and would only go up against superior odds if he thought he could cheat his way to victory . |