Example sentences of "[det] [be] [noun] [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 police cars or rental vehicles , for example , but most are kept by individual drivers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some were heather bogs , some bracken bogs and others were boggy floodlands of marsh grass . |
| 9 | Some were probation officers in training and some from County Hall , who had not yet specialised , but were hoping to . |
| 10 | But we know this is marble chippings you know you were getting this carbon dioxide off . |
| 11 | a waste , a waste of education , right this is Carlisle Sports for the Disabled |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | and there 's one in there This is January savers and there 's another catalogue . |
| 14 | ‘ This is Hills Brothers 50–50 , 50 per cent caffeine , for people who ca n't make up their minds , ’ he says , rinsing out a couple of mugs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One quarter of this is wine imports . |
| 17 | A widely-cited instance of this is Hopewell Holdings , the construction and property group controlled and managed by Gordon Wu . |
| 18 | RELAXING AFTER The Searchers but still masterly , this is Howard Hawks ' critique of High Noon , arguing a true professional like Wayne would n't waste his time begging amateurs for help and would only go up against superior odds if he thought he could cheat his way to victory . |
| 19 | Firstly , the windowing system is a set of tools for creating windows and their characteristics — an example of this is X Windows . |
| 20 | A good example of this is glass giants Pilkington Bros . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This is Dulwich Sports Club . |
| 23 | But this was Ray Shallows ' kingdom and it was hard to escape from his flood of ecstasy . |
| 24 | This was animal rights activists most destructive attack … in 1989 . |
| 25 | This was Bunhill Fields , where pilgrims came to pay their respects to John Bunyan and Isaac Watts , much as later and more politicised generations visit Highgate Cemetery to honour Karl Marx . |
| 26 | How much are car mats , Paul ? |
| 27 | Such were Ashby Pastures or Cossington Gorse in east Leicestershire , in the ‘ Quorn country ’ . |
| 28 | None of these are Hunt trademarks . |
| 29 | These are course generalisations . |
| 30 | In essence these are sash cramps without the longitudinal bar . |