Example sentences of "[adj] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take That are Robbie Williams , 18 , from Stoke-on-Trent , Gary Barlow , 21 , from Cheshire and Mark Owen , 18 , Howard Donald , 22 , and Jason Orange , 22 , all from Manchester . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | quite a long time now I begin to understand there are M S twos and threes are project engineers , and I |
| 4 | Professional players who use the Pro Series 9.2 are Amy Frazier , Susan Sloane and Nick Brown . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Among those present until the 17th are Annette Messager , Kiki Smith , Sue Williams , Kathe Burkhart and Mary Beth Edelson . |
| 7 | Areas in which Indian software professionals are particularly strong are systems software , CAD/CAM , expert systems , microcomputer software , telecommunications and applications software development . |
| 8 | The two missing from the top eight are Wimbledon champion Andre Agassi and Ivan Lendl , both injured . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Examples of this are Pay History and Absence and Overtime History . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |
| 13 | He wrote poetry about his experiences , examples of this are Target Area and Return , both of which were written by him whilst captive in a Prisoner of War camp . |
| 14 | The others to achieve this are Mushtaq Mohammad ( 1554 ) , Javed Miandad ( 1270 after this match ) , Zaheer Abbas ( 1086 ) and Hanif Mohammad ( 1039 ) . |
| 15 | Hard-faced , eclectic and distinctly dance-friendly , DF 118 are Pop Will Eat Itself on bad drugs , Big Audio Dynamite with a ring of low-rent authenticity and much more besides . |
| 16 | Any-way in September 1990 I decided to further my career in Horticulture and started a college course full time at Houghall College , County Durham , which meant having to live on a Educational-grant My expenses weekly are £29 rent , bus fares to college £25 , HP £10 , electric £5 total £69 weekly this is without food . |
| 17 | Also due on stream in 1993 are East Brae ( BP : x% ) , the offshore portion of Wytch Farm ( BP : 50% ) and Norway 's Draugen field ( BP : 14% ) . |
| 18 | I mean , a lot of these grants go sporting wise , very few are arts type grants , and it 's something that a lot of people participate , and a lot of people get pleasure out of . |
| 19 | Some are management development students , they are between twenty-eight and thirty-six years old and they stay here for fifteen weeks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Some are street kids who rely on their ingenuity to keep alive . |
| 22 | Some are police cars or rental vehicles , for example , but most are kept by individual drivers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Out for some time but still popular are Jilly Cooper 's POLO , ( Corgi , £5.99 ) and Jeffrey Archer 's AS THE CROW FLIES ( Coronet , £5.99 ) . |
| 26 | Among the most popular are fromage blanc and fromage frais from France , and quark from Germany . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Of the 80 guests in Bitez , about 30 are dinghy sailors who arrive once a fortnight for a two week holiday . |
| 29 | When Z 1 and Z 2 are resistances R 1 and R 2 , both configurations execute a scaling operation between their input and output . |
| 30 | Consultants for Fast Forward 1 and 2 are Rod Bolitho and Christopher Candlin . |