Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major institutions are life assurance and pension funds , unit trusts and investment trusts . |
| 2 | Every single book is about chess ; every cassette features chess games ; most of the ornaments are chess trophies ; even the framed prints depict chess scenes . |
| 3 | The main operating mines are South Crofty , which works a fissure vein swarm , and Wheal Jane/Mount Wellington , which works an unusual deposit of cassiterite in very fine-grained sulphides , with sphalerite and minor chalcopyrite . |
| 4 | Debts could be negotiated ; decide what of your debts are priority debts . |
| 5 | However , women are the principal victims of this process since embedded in medical ideologies are gender ideologies which label , stereotype and devalue women . |
| 6 | Besides Son Sen , the two most senior commanders are Pol Pot and Ta Mok . |
| 7 | They know the lairds are straw men now ! ’ |
| 8 | About 56 million of the 78 million Germans are church members . |
| 9 | Illustrated by H. K. Browne and George Cattermole , with one illustration by Daniel Maclise and one by Samuel Williams ; the illustrations are wood engravings dropped into the text , giving a close relationship between word and image . |
| 10 | Flood defences are thge Cinderella of public services . |
| 11 | Much of the activity on the Tyne Tunnel Estate has always been in small warehousing and distribution depots but the two large manufacturing employers are Cape Insulation and Twinings Teas ( a subsidiary of Associated British Foods ) . |
| 12 | These copies are staple check and you are the one which you 've gone back for apply erm I , I 'll with that one . |
| 13 | The new progressive icons are Anthony Giddens , Quentin Skinner , History Workshop and feminist writers of all kinds . |
| 14 | The Royal Oak is owned by Acorn Hotels , a limited company , but the major shareholders are Peter Davenport and his wife and in practice the hotel is managed solely by Davenport . |
| 15 | Database 's other shareholders are Assitalia SpA , an insurance company , Fime SpA , a leasing and finance company based in Naples , and private investors . |
| 16 | The franchise was awarded to Televisao Independente , whose main shareholders are Radio Renacena , the Church-sponsored radio station . |
| 17 | His three sons are cathedral choristers : ‘ There have n't been three brothers together in the choir for about 12 years , ’ he says , with some pride . |
| 18 | There is the formidable barrier too in goalkeeper Valdemaras Martinkenas , a 28-year-old who has been playing with Dinamo Kievf and three others with Austrian clubs are defenders Arvydas Janonis ( St Polten ) , Romas Mazheikas ( FC Krems ) and striker Stasys Baranavskas ( FC Vienna ) . |
| 19 | READING TOILETS ARE SHIT SHOCKER … |
| 20 | All fruits , and leafy and root vegetables are food sources of fibre . |
| 21 | The principles of the common law invoked in such cases are nemo judex in causa sua ( no man can be a judge in this own cause ) ; or auctor in rem suam ( no man should act in his own interest ) . |
| 22 | The three most striking cases are Mr Hearst in America , Lord Rothermere in England and Lord Beaverbrook . |
| 23 | Regulation of pH i is of major importance to cell homeostasis because many physiological phenomena are pH dependent ; diverse examples include the rate of glycolysis , the level of intracellular calcium , and plasma membrane K + permeability which may regulate intracellular electrical potential . |
| 24 | The four cell activities are cell multiplication , cell movement , change in character , and cell signalling . |
| 25 | Intersparsed with these activities are steamer trip on Lake Ullswater and visits to the Keswick Pencil Factory , The Steamboat Museum , Dove Cottage , The ‘ Ratty ’ Railway , a local farm , the swimming pool at Troutbeck and the Brockhole Centre where pupils enjoy an afternoon of Environmental Studies . |
| 26 | And since the water authorities are enforcement agencies they also control to a very great degree what may seem to be some sort of ‘ real level ’ of pollution which comes to light in amount and kind — those events or incidents which are detected and processed , becoming statistics of non-compliance or even , in some rare cases , of prosecutions in annual reports . |
| 27 | All non-productive wood must be cut out , and the skill lies in deciding which of the many buds are wood buds and which are fruit buds , and then in deciding which of the wood buds are likely to produce the most fruit buds . |
| 28 | Bicester 's opponents are Bradford Salem , the side who beat them in the final last year . |
| 29 | Should the Scots qualify for the quarter-finals , their most likely opponents are Western Samoa , fielding the personnel who triumphed at the Canberra event . |
| 30 | Many of those who have been chosen in place of the knights are Essex Men , but Essex Men with degrees : clever chaps like John Wittingdale and Oliver Letwin , whose cloaks were laid at the feet of Mrs Thatcher . |