Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Illegible notes are more trouble than they are worth . |
| 2 | Former hooker Steve Jones has taken over from John Perkins as coach , included in their personnel are former Lions Staff Jones and Graham Price , and club captain Chris Huish , who announced his retirement at the end of last season . |
| 3 | The Liquid Faeries are all chicken wire guitars with a primitive production and basic arrangement . |
| 4 | The Liquid Faeries are all chicken wire guitars with a primitive production and basic arrangement . |
| 5 | Secondary qualities of objects are those arrangements of its corpuscles which cause certain ideas in us as sentient beings . |
| 6 | Registration and administrative and financial returns are all functions which computers can carry out in a modern general practice . |
| 7 | Retarded technologies are those energy technologies that were abandoned , technologies on which little R & D continued because of cheaper alternatives . |
| 8 | Accountants , personnel administrators , economists , data processing experts and statisticians are all experts in a specialised field of work . |
| 9 | These transformations are both isometries , but geometers need no encouragement to generalise the principle to include any transformation . |
| 10 | For under soft conventionalism our sample cases are all cases governed by law , and soft conventionalist judges deciding these cases would have no reason to defer to their beliefs about what the present legislature would do or what the will of the people is . |
| 11 | For the purposes of civil policing , subversive activities are those activities directly or indirectly involving criminal conduct , which threaten national security , or which are calculated to overthrow or undermine parliamentary democracy and the institutions of the state . |
| 12 | ‘ Other maps are such shapes , with their islands and capes ! |
| 13 | ‘ Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who 're cut out for the job . ’ |
| 14 | Heavy teaching loads are another fact of life for the modern German academics and are often quoted as a bad influence on research . |
| 15 | The knights are all followers of the god Ulric who is worshipped throughout the Empire , but most notably in the northern provinces , especially Middenland . |
| 16 | The most extreme forms are those species that have so-called ‘ lek ’ mating systems ( Figure 8.8 ) . |
| 17 | They claim 10,000 members , but if campaign finance forms are any indication , a few hundred hard-core activists is a more accurate estimate . |
| 18 | Arthropods are those animals with an external , usually ‘ chitinous ’ skeleton ( exoskeleton ) and have characteristic legs , feelers , etc. , with joints to give them flexibility ( arthropod is derived from the Greek for ‘ jointed leg ’ ) . |
| 19 | All the signs are that radio is an exciting prospect — the forthcoming deregulation of the industry with associated changes in costs , and an expected boom in advertising revenues , is finally making the City take notice . |
| 20 | Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem |
| 21 | Yet , the constitutional position of the monarchy escapes controversy , although the personalities of the Royal Family , their dress sense and leisure pursuits are all topics of debate . |
| 22 | The maintainers are those people whose job it is to make sure that the functionality , performance , documentation and quality of the software are appropriate to its purpose . |
| 23 | These operators are all college graduates with postgraduate qualifications in either maths or a similar subject . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The Sons of Dives are another group . ’ |
| 25 | ( Castes are another example of such closed status groups . ) |
| 26 | Running water from taps , plug holes and drains are all things to be explored , as are ditches , puddles , fish tanks and the pets ' water containers . |
| 27 | But the different ‘ policy groups ’ that have been identified as playing a part in policy-making and associated with specific interests and policy proposals are all bureaucrats — the military , industrial managers , agricultural experts , state officials , the economic bureaucracy , the party apparatus , police officials ( Brezezinski and Huntington 1964 ; Asparturian 1968 ; Skilling and Griffiths 1971 ; Schwartz and Keech 1968 ) . |
| 28 | Sales taxes are another form of indirect taxation popular in the South . |
| 29 | the spoolers are all women . |
| 30 | You will find out that sportsmanship , respect for your opponents and for the rules are all factors which will add to your enjoyment and sense of achievement when playing any sport . |