Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Secondary qualities of objects are those arrangements of its corpuscles which cause certain ideas in us as sentient beings . |
| 3 | Registration and administrative and financial returns are all functions which computers can carry out in a modern general practice . |
| 4 | Accountants , personnel administrators , economists , data processing experts and statisticians are all experts in a specialised field of work . |
| 5 | These transformations are both isometries , but geometers need no encouragement to generalise the principle to include any transformation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Other maps are such shapes , with their islands and capes ! |
| 9 | The knights are all followers of the god Ulric who is worshipped throughout the Empire , but most notably in the northern provinces , especially Middenland . |
| 10 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | the spoolers are all women . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Crimes are violations of legal rules ; legal rules are those rules that are defined and enforced by agencies of the state that have , ultimately , the authority to use coercion . |
| 17 | The categorization of information , the naming of things which are alien to pre-existing frameworks , the fostering of ready-made opinions are all phenomena which might be presumed to occur in any son of social arrangement . |
| 18 | What is meant by informal organizations are those groupings which the employees themselves have developed in accordance with their own needs . |
| 19 | Mr Dawlish says I should tell you that the Pike brothers are both Latvians but hold British passports . |
| 20 | Soda ash and its co-products are many things to many manufacturers . |
| 21 | Glaswegians are many things , but they are not indifferent . |
| 22 | The following is an example from Malay : N.B. The classifiers are all nouns : orang means " people " ; ekor means " tail " ; batang means " big stick " and biji means " seed " . |
| 23 | Commercial proven and probable reserves are those quantities of petroleum which are considered , on the basis of information currently available and current economic forecasts , to be commercially recoverable from fields currently in production , fields under development , fields for which a development plan is under active preparation and fields whose proximity to established infrastructure assures their future development . |
| 24 | The political imperatives are those choices faced by states , either solely or in alliance with others . |
| 25 | There seems to be a fairly common misconception that cichlids are all cichlids and can therefore be mixed . |
| 26 | Thus many life peers are former members of the Commons . |
| 27 | The modern hemichordates are all encrusters and virtually all colonial organisms ( such as corals or bryozoa ) are bottom dwellers in the sea . |
| 28 | The most likely beneficiaries are those stocks with a US bias . |
| 29 | In which months are these rivers most likely to flood ? |
| 30 | The three other sonnets which present no personal relationships are all generalizations about love . |