Example sentences of "[ex0] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former 60-a-day-smoker , Mr McTear is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming he would not have taken up the habit in the 1960s had there been health warnings . |
| 2 | There are exchange schemes which allow owners to ‘ swop ’ their periods with comparable ones in other parts of the world . |
| 3 | For longer trips , there are travel sickness tablets especially for dogs and even those made for human consumption can be very beneficial if used according to the instructions for dosing a child . |
| 4 | There are production.oriented companies and marketing.oriented companies . |
| 5 | The high-jinks of the victorious Yorkshire sides are lively in the telling , and there are laughs aplenty in his recollections of the 1963–64 MCC tour of India , during which he played five of his six Tests . |
| 6 | Mobility in North Yorkshire is increasing dramatically , has increased dramatically over the last ten years and I think there are sustainability arguments against a level erm of provision at fifty er around that level . |
| 7 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 8 | It is this feature , shared by cases where there are co-ordination problems , which enables authorities to make a difference while acting on dependent reasons . |
| 9 | One of our church members became the paid administrator for the centre in which now , two years after we used it first and one year after it opened to the public , there are dance classes ; keep fit ; carpet bowls ; drama ; OAP 's club ; card club ; ballroom dancing ; judo etc . |
| 10 | In all the provisions there are exception clauses : an obligation can be revoked or modified only with consent ‘ unless it is established they had otherwise agreed ’ ; assent shall be presumed ‘ so long as the contrary is not indicated ’ ; a right may not be revoked or modified ‘ if it is established that the right was intended not to be revocable ’ . |
| 11 | There are storage areas with more wire than you 'd dreamed existed ; areas full of strain gauges and various items of test equipment . |
| 12 | Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully . |
| 13 | There are various ways about that as there are with many road schemes er where there are structure plan policies for a particular scheme and there are arrows on key diagrams , there are many ways of getting from A to B er they are not er in terms of outer and inner , they are going from the same A to B. They they start and finish at the same locations , it is just a different way of getting from A to B. Which quite properly as I understand it would be a matter for debate er either at the local plan or if a planning application is made er earlier than that er then at a at a planning enquiry into the specific road proposal . |
| 14 | There are computer games on the market in which the player has the illusion that he is wandering about in an underground labyrinth , which has a definite if complex geography and in which he encounters dragons , minotaurs or other mythic adversaries . |
| 15 | Pictures done in the zoo can be much better than those done in a museum from a dry skin , perhaps not very convincingly stuffed ; but only if there are field sketches too for the artist to work from can he hope to get the background right . |
| 16 | Then there are love letters ; these are collected into The Golden Quill Treasury of Love Letters ( available by mail order ) . |
| 17 | In the kitchen , there are microwave ovens to save time ; there are packet mixes to save time ; electric kettles are advertised on the basis of the speed with which they boil water . |
| 18 | Of course , this is not a solution as there are expectation terms to be solved on the right-hand side . |
| 19 | In these difficult conditions the question whether nick points related to rejuvenation are present can sometimes be decided by a study of the long profiles of terraces downstream : as many terraces as there are nick points should merge with the present river profile at the hard bed . |
| 20 | There are flower beds . |
| 21 | There are honour boards , special clothes , badges , privileges and so on , varying from school to school , in which the results of success at the officially sanctioned occasions of hazard are displayed ( Bernstein , 1971 ) . |
| 22 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 23 | With the employment services division set to be transformed into a ‘ next step agency ’ in April , there are question marks over terms and conditions of employment . |
| 24 | We have also lost jobs in the cement industry and there are question marks over the Point of Ayr colliery . |
| 25 | There are question marks hanging over the appearance of major grass court stars like Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf , while both Monica Seles and Guy Forget are already sidelined . |
| 26 | There are debt problems in America , but they lie elsewhere — with the federal government , with consumers and in weakened financial institutions . |
| 27 | There are Glidevale Ventilators for most roofs |
| 28 | Finally there are honours degrees in Social Anthropology with Gender Studies , with Development , and with South Asian Studies . |
| 29 | They are in a quiet part of the city , an old quarter where there are brass kicking-plates on the thresholds of the closed shops , their cross-hatchings worn almost smooth by years of polishing . |
| 30 | Good estates ensure there are shelter belts of trees available ; they feed the deer in winter and shoot the full recommended quota to keep the numbers down to what the ground can support . |