Example sentences of "[det] be [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some are street kids who rely on their ingenuity to keep alive . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some were heather bogs , some bracken bogs and others were boggy floodlands of marsh grass . |
| 8 | Some were probation officers in training and some from County Hall , who had not yet specialised , but were hoping to . |
| 9 | But we know this is marble chippings you know you were getting this carbon dioxide off . |
| 10 | The theological term for this is analogia fidei ; that is to say , when we talk of eternal verities we have to resort to pictures , stories and other analogical expressions . |
| 11 | On the first leg of the flight to Tehran , courtesy of one of the aircraft that also helped with contra resupply , North told Cave ‘ This is Democracy Airlines , ’ and laughed ; Cave had no notion what he meant . |
| 12 | One quarter of this is wine imports . |
| 13 | A good example of this is glass giants Pilkington Bros . |
| 14 | The item below that is the shortfall in planning application fees , this is application fees for er mineral extraction applications which are , these are set as a statutory charge erm we 've picked up in the budget monitoring reports which have been to previous committees that the from this source has been falling off , as a few words explain that in this paragraph . |
| 15 | This was animal rights activists most destructive attack … in 1989 . |
| 16 | How much are car mats , Paul ? |
| 17 | These are course generalisations . |
| 18 | In essence these are sash cramps without the longitudinal bar . |
| 19 | These are divestiture engagements in which the initiating member has been retained on an exclusive basis to assist in the sale of a business , and the business merits justify ( or the client specifically requests ) an international marketing program . |
| 20 | These are compromise solutions from a technological viewpoint . |
| 21 | But these are reference books that are not thrown away and that 's what makes the advertisers the benefits to the advertisers that much more important . |
| 22 | ‘ Bonds like these are share certificates issued by banks and multi-national companies . |
| 23 | These are insurance subsidiaries set up to insure some or all of the risks of a group of companies . |
| 24 | It 's been accepted that these are credit arrangements under the local government Planning and Land Act , so therefore , it is not unreasonable to argue that borrowing will not represent a new departure for the County Council in terms of being able to control capital spending . |
| 25 | Of course , we must not forget that these are ski resorts . |
| 26 | In the main these are service houses who will contract out the typesetting ( and generally printing ) work to one of the established bureau . |
| 27 | These are software products in which the expertise of a particular discipline medicine , say — is encapsulated within a computer program so that non-experts can make use of it . |
| 28 | HLP — These are help files and are numbered to correspond to the menu options . |
| 29 | Remember that these are colour effects , and they will therefore not show up on a black and white viewfinder . |
| 30 | Other breeds have colour-pointed varieties such as the White Galloway and White Welsh , but these are colour varieties within their breeds rather than separate breeds and quite often their non-standard colour can be traced back to crossings with White Park or British White in the past . |