Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also known as Koblernigh , these Welsh mining fairies are cousins of the Cornish KNOCKERS . |
| 2 | ‘ Meetings of all the Palestinian institutions are starting in order to clarify and decide the prospects for the political action in the future , ’ Arafat aide Hakam Balawi said last night . |
| 3 | Most of the criticisms levelled against the world 's religions are criticisms of failure . |
| 4 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 5 | Most of the other ornaments are terracotta including two handsome dogs which guard the patio . |
| 6 | The giants are experts on working the crowd up into ‘ He 's behind you ! ’ pantomime scenarios and on making the physical manoeuvres look and sound bruising . |
| 7 | " They may be familiar with the paintings of Whistler , or perhaps with Whistler 's statement that when evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry , as with a veil , and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky , and the tall chimneys become campanili , and the warehouses are palaces in the night , and the whole city hangs in the heavens , and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home , and Nature , who , for once , has sung in tune , sings her exquisite song to the artist alone , her son and her master — her son , in that he loves her , her master in that he knows her ? " … shall I read you that deposition again , Mrs James ? " |
| 8 | Most familiar note is long quavering hoot , but equally often heard , especially from young birds in late summer and autumn , is a sharp ‘ ke-wick ’ ( These two notes are origin of traditional ‘ tu-whit , tu-whoo ’ ) . |
| 9 | Promissory notes are bills of exchange to which special rules are applicable . |
| 10 | Right erm these notes are sort of based on a lecture that I went to when I was in sixth form erm and the theme for it is , Men And Women , Do We Speak The Same Language ? |
| 11 | Lions are enemies of zebras . |
| 12 | Although gestures can misfire and some serious suicide attempts fail ( it is not always easy to distinguish between the gesture and the serious attempt ) , both acts are expressions of immense aggression and can leave behind a trail of guilt and remorse . |
| 13 | Ideologies are constructions of reality that serve to support claims to power or authority ( Holzner 1972 : 144 ) . |
| 14 | Behind the breakdown in discussions are charges from the Canadians that the Reagan administration has systematically disrupted the work of the scientists . |
| 15 | Fundamental to all such discussions are assumptions about the rate of evolution of decorative styles and the definition of the circumstances in which such evolution took place . |
| 16 | Herons are masters of this technique . |
| 17 | The first shift away from this kind of deixis is where the centre of orientation ( origo ) but not the related objects are part of the canonical situation . |
| 18 | All other objects are incident at =45° . |
| 19 | When you perform this algorithm , the states are pairs of numbers ( x , x ) where x |
| 20 | At this point it is worth taking a step back from the scene and recalling that the Soviet Union and all the East European states are signatories to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution . |
| 21 | Such States are parties to the treaty , but not to the proceedings . |
| 22 | States are entitled to rely upon compliance with prescribed procedures when determining which other States are parties to particular treaties . |
| 23 | All States are non-parties to the declaration of any other State , but an accepting State is a party to ‘ the system of the Optional Clause in relation to the other declarant States , with all the rights and obligations deriving from Article 36 ’ . |
| 24 | States are monoliths with interests , and the main interest of each is the maximization of its power . |
| 25 | The safer investments are ones with more people involved . |
| 26 | Farmers and vets are part of a culture where very sick or distressed animals are killed . |
| 27 | A quarter of all UK vets are graduates of the College whilst worldwide former graduates are daily actively involved in the care and welfare of animals . |
| 28 | Microhabitats are habitats on a small scale , e.g. a pile of dead leaves , a hollow tree , a puddle or a stone wall . |
| 29 | But if disciplines are bodies of people as well as bodies of knowledge , are not academic courses also ‘ professional ’ in the sense of preparing people for entry to the academic professions ? |
| 30 | Some historians have been arguing recently that payments of census and hostilicium specified in some polyptychs are forms of tax collection and demonstrate the continuity of taxation , and of the administrative structures to exact it , from the late Roman period to the Carolingians . |