Example sentences of "[det] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take That are Robbie Williams , 18 , from Stoke-on-Trent , Gary Barlow , 21 , from Cheshire and Mark Owen , 18 , Howard Donald , 22 , and Jason Orange , 22 , all from Manchester . |
| 2 | The most obvious examples of this are contingency theories of a ‘ culture-free ’ variety ( Hickson et al. , 1974 ) but it is also the case with certain kinds of institutional theory , such as in Biggart and Hamilton 's ( 1987 : 437 ) hypothesis that ‘ [ l ] eadership strategies in any one socio-cultural setting will have strong underlying similarities ’ . |
| 3 | Examples of this are Pay History and Absence and Overtime History . |
| 4 | That one was associated with the English dance explosion , but none of the tracks on this are dance records and they do n't pretend to be . ’ |
| 5 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |
| 6 | He wrote poetry about his experiences , examples of this are Target Area and Return , both of which were written by him whilst captive in a Prisoner of War camp . |
| 7 | The others to achieve this are Mushtaq Mohammad ( 1554 ) , Javed Miandad ( 1270 after this match ) , Zaheer Abbas ( 1086 ) and Hanif Mohammad ( 1039 ) . |
| 8 | I mean , a lot of these grants go sporting wise , very few are arts type grants , and it 's something that a lot of people participate , and a lot of people get pleasure out of . |
| 9 | Some are management development students , they are between twenty-eight and thirty-six years old and they stay here for fifteen weeks . |
| 10 | Some are service agencies providing painting and decorating , gardening and catering services to the local community ; others have developed workshops which concentrate on one business activity — baking , furniture renovation and picture-framing are examples . |
| 11 | Some are street kids who rely on their ingenuity to keep alive . |
| 12 | Some are police cars or rental vehicles , for example , but most are kept by individual drivers . |
| 13 | Some are workaday freighters from Russia , Panama and Japan , their crews leaning over the rails chewing , drinking from mugs and watching the passing scene with a worldly dispassion . |
| 14 | Some are cash crops , particularly wheat which the farmers sell to the flour mills in Leith and Glasgow , and barley , about half of which is sold for making beer and whisky in Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 15 | Could this be J. R. Pinnegar ? |
| 16 | Can this be South Africa 's unexpected role in the modern world ? ’ |
| 17 | Could this be Cafe Rene ? |
| 18 | Could this be time pressure then ? |
| 19 | Other artists making prints of the Lake District who did this were William Westall and Fielding . |
| 20 | ‘ Is this were Edwin Garland and your husband spent their time ? ’ |
| 21 | First to take advantage of this were Les Nouveaux , who , because of Jane 's foolish undercharging , had plenty of money left to transform themselves overnight into Horsey People . |
| 22 | ) This being Operation Bowery , conducted with HMS Eagle 60 of 64 aircraft successfully landing on Malta — KE ) |
| 23 | We discussed how to identify the full costs of courses , and the mechanisms by which funding could flow , which could include funds through students , but we did not rule out all of this being government money . |
| 24 | This being Bank Holiday Monday the British are participating in their traditional Bank Holiday pastime : queueing . |
| 25 | Some were heather bogs , some bracken bogs and others were boggy floodlands of marsh grass . |
| 26 | Some were probation officers in training and some from County Hall , who had not yet specialised , but were hoping to . |
| 27 | Some were corporation housing estates , reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class . |
| 28 | ‘ This is Jan Hardy 's secretary calling from London . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most striking case of this is J. A. Thugut , Austrian representative at Constantinople in 1769–75 , who was throughout these years an agent in French pay regularly transmitting confidential information to his French colleague , the Comte de Saint-Priest ( though it is true that French and Austria were at that time allies , at least in name ) . |
| 30 | This is Jim Mackenzie . |