Example sentences of "[noun pl] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These junior institutions are the preparatory schools of the prisons , not because they train criminals , but because they train youngsters to cope with a regime which denies tenderness , warmth and the right to weep with and for your own pain . |
| 2 | The Bretton Woods institutions are the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , the World Bank , and the third , which emanated indirectly from the negotiations at Bretton Woods , is the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 3 | Since such institutions are the heaviest investors in commercial property , their requirements have driven the market , so that even landlords who are not institutions require an " institutionally acceptable " investment . |
| 4 | Tune into the harmony of your developing fragrance : Top Notes are the first scent you 'll smell , but these are volatile and do n't last . |
| 5 | The younger acts are the major problem in the music industry . |
| 6 | The fact that all the acts are the same couple of blokes is just the way it is in modern dance . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the former test and the current test are very similar and indeed the ‘ guidelines ’ laid down by the two Acts are the same . |
| 8 | 2 That acts are the social effects of actions . |
| 9 | The sequences cloned from the marsupials are the only Y-located sequences detected either with the human SRY probe or with the marsupial sequences themselves . |
| 10 | As many of us have mixed backgrounds I would not like to say that ethnic reasons are the main reasons for tabling this motion . |
| 11 | My reasons are the same as those given by the Court of Appeal . |
| 12 | The reasons are the same ; the valleyside torrents are checked when they reach the main valley floor and aggradation takes place , the fan shape usually resulting from the stream shifting its course from time to time . |
| 13 | The most interesting objects are the red variables U and EU , which are easy to locate . |
| 14 | My schooldays are the one period of my life to which I do not care to refer and were anything but happy . |
| 15 | Schooldays are the best days of your life . |
| 16 | I have never subscribed to the view that schooldays are the happiest days of your life , but I do think that student days are among the happiest . |
| 17 | The kaluts are the larger features reaching 50 m or so high , while the yardangs are less than half as high . |
| 18 | Fortunately , for most of us , the business of dividing up an estate does not involve nearly as much emotional wear and tear , and material possessions are the last things on your mind when you lose someone you love . |
| 19 | Many problems experienced by prisoners are the same as those of other CAB clients : housing , social security , administration of justice , children and marital difficulties are the most common . |
| 20 | Because of the importance of the profit and loss account in both the profit-oriented and the Type A non-profit organization , the final accounts are the primary instruments of financial accountability . |
| 21 | Historical cost accounts are the main accounts , with the effect of changing prices being shown in supplementary accounts . |
| 22 | The accounts are the twenty eighth twenty nine , thirtieth and the second |
| 23 | Geobacter metallireducens ( formerly , strain GS-15 ) and Shewanella putrefaciens are the only well characterized organisms known to couple the oxidation of fermentation acids and/or hydrogen to the reduction of Fe(III) . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , a resolution acknowledged that " all CIS member states are the legal successors of the rights and obligations of the former Soviet Union " . |
| 25 | That may seem perverse , given what we have just said about the current scene , especially since we do not ourselves believe that states are the only important actors in international relations . |
| 26 | When fire does occur , detecting , containing and extinguishing the flames are the three main principles of immediate action . |
| 27 | ( In the case of the force-carrying particles , the antiparticles are the same as the particles themselves . ) |
| 28 | Is he also aware that human skills are the major determinant of success or failure ? |
| 29 | There is often an assumption that information-handling skills are the same as IT skills . |
| 30 | " We are the Victors — The Germans are the Vanquished " , read the headline in The Seaman . |