Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other possible candidates were Kaifu himself , Kiichi Miyazawa , a former Finance Minister and leader of the third-largest faction , and Michio Wanatabe , leader of the faction formerly headed by Nakasone . |
| 2 | In summary , we can say that public law rules and principles ( including the rules of judicial review ) ought to apply to the exercise ( or non-exercise ) of public functions ; and that public functions are functions which ought to be subject to public law controls . |
| 3 | Certainly not all boyfriends of teenage mothers are teenagers themselves , although a significant number of them are quite young . |
| 4 | It depends on the fact that standard effects are events which in the most fundamental sense can be explained . |
| 5 | ( Paragraph indentations occur between sentences 6 and 7 and 7 and 8. ) 1 Reflex actions are processes which occur within the body and are important to us in that they sometimes prevent us being seriously injured . |
| 6 | Politicians do n't have time to read screeds , so you have to give them short , pithy things to look at , We were doing all this anyway , of course , but the chaps at Barton , including Andy , are working on it much more effectively since we were able to say definitely that the DTI civil servants were agin them . |
| 7 | Dummy activities are actions which do not incur time , but need to be shown to ensure the logic of the network . |
| 8 | In and around the long-abandoned quarries are millstones which the workers had barely started on ; others with their circular shapes and central holes ; a few even have the radial grooves or ‘ harps ’ chiselled into them , ready for use in the flour mills ; but all left lying when the trade collapsed under competition in the eighteenth century from imported French Burr stones , which were thought to be of better quality for the purpose . |
| 9 | Elliot Bernerd of Chelsfield says : ‘ One of the psychological problems is people who work in the institutions and banks are in the City every day and they see these monster empty buildings such as MEPC 's Alban Gate . |
| 10 | And we have never apart from I think we 've lost one spoon which was the since we started so er we do n't leave valuable things around but it 's an important consideration to think that our most valuable things are things it would take four large strong men to move |
| 11 | But classical foundationalism gives the distinction content by adding that our basic beliefs are beliefs which concern the nature of our own sensory states , our own immediate experience . |
| 12 | Most aerial photographers are pilots who taught themselves photography . |
| 13 | Corporate entrepreneurs are people who envision something new and make it work . |
| 14 | Ideal types are constructs which make empirical generalization and comparison possible . |
| 15 | I think environmental discount and environmental considerations are factors which we 'll come back to in in looking at the migration rates , so you 're going to have another shot at this one . |
| 16 | The people in key positions are people who do n't consider pop culture to have any serious importance whatsoever . ’ |
| 17 | The Faroese ( well , most of them ) maintain that those who oppose their traditional ways are people who have never had to hunt and kill to survive , who are happy to let other people ‘ do the dirty work ’ and to buy their meat ready-packaged from a supermarket ; that whale- and bird-hunting are community activities which help foster a ‘ community spirit ’ and that the birds and animals are all used for human food . |
| 18 | The commonly-held view that good teachers are ones who can pass on their expertise through clear explanations so as to avoid confusing their pupils has some interesting implications . |
| 19 | Multi-way trees are trees which have more than two pointers leading from each node . |
| 20 | Differential facets are subfacets which are placed adjacent to specific facets to which they apply ; they are not generally used with all of the facets in the scheme . |
| 21 | However , the most important spenders are clients who most frequently use London-based agencies . |
| 22 | The extent of circulation and the prominence given to defamatory remarks are factors which will influence the final award : a libel in the national press comes more expensive than the same libel in a small local newspaper . |
| 23 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 24 | However , a substantial proportion of the long-term cases are children who have been taken into care against the wishes of their parents because they have not been receiving adequate care or control . |
| 25 | Strategic visionaries are leaders who use their familiarity with the issues as a springboard to innovation , who are able to add value by building new perceptions on old practices . |
| 26 | The only exceptions are candidates who , when all possible transfers have been made , are declared elected without having reached the quota . |
| 27 | This network of kin and non-kin has no clear boundaries ; at the far edges are individuals who are simply ‘ known ’ or ‘ recognized ’ as kin , while towards the centre there are more effective ties , perhaps involving frequent visits and exchanges of goods and services . |
| 28 | Most of the Irish Protestants are people whose ancestors came to this area several centuries ago from Scotland , England and even France . |
| 29 | ‘ Although small brewers are competitors there 's a lot of camaraderie . ’ |
| 30 | Highly specific assets are ones whose values elsewhere are comparatively low and , consequently , whose owners have a strong interest in continuing the transaction because of the high quasi-rents they receive . |