Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [noun sg] [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 They know the lairds are straw men now ! ’
7 About 56 million of the 78 million Germans are church members .
8 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 .
9 Flood defences are thge Cinderella of public services .
10 These copies are staple check and you are the one which you 've gone back for apply erm I , I 'll with that one .
11 The franchise was awarded to Televisao Independente , whose main shareholders are Radio Renacena , the Church-sponsored radio station .
12 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 .
13 READING TOILETS ARE SHIT SHOCKER
14 All fruits , and leafy and root vegetables are food sources of fibre .
15 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 ) .
16 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 .
17 The four cell activities are cell multiplication , cell movement , change in character , and cell signalling .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The tell-tale signs are pin holes and dust in both soft- and hardwoods ; the mighty deathwatch beetle leaves larger holes in hardwoods such as elm and oak .
22 ‘ The first signs are traffic jams .
23 Nonetheless there are titles for which more than one source of information needs to be consulted — either because the titles are borderline choices , and/or because one source does not give all the information needed .
24 Scientists ' methods are public , available to everyone after publication ; those of artists are trade secrets , part of their mystery , and are typically concealed .
25 Since the political issues of choice for many of the artists are abortion rights and the oppression of women , various imagings of the female body recur throughout the show .
26 I do take into account that for a lot of people , pop artists are role models so you have to be careful about what you are doing .
27 It assumes that the ions are point charges .
28 If you are not a bee-keeper , you may easily become one by amassing herbs beloved by bees and/or butterflies ; many herbs are bee plants such as goldenrod , mullein , honeysuckle , thyme , catmint and bergamot .
29 It has been suggested that the rhetoric is Type II , whilst the proposals are Type I. This may be considered an oversimplistic observation , but it would appear to contain some element of the truth .
30 Among some fine town houses are Moray House , built after James VI had abandoned his capital for the greater adulation of London but when a Scottish parliament still endeavoured to preserve its autonomy in Edinburgh ; and relics of ancient inns more accessible to coaching traffic than those in the congested upper reaches .
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