Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Rosing , known for playing his cards close to his vest , declined to discuss specific products or the company 's intended customers .
2 Erm we select the stands where the treasure 's going to be because some
3 Such swift and arbitrary death , due neither to weakness nor fault , but to sheer chance , is the fate of vast numbers of animals that every day are eaten by predators .
4 At the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Norman Anonymous ( formerly known as the Anonymous of York ) wrote that ‘ the king reigns with Christ ’ , reflecting the common doctrine of the tenth and early eleventh centuries that the king was Christ 's vicar , that he was rex et sacerdos , that although he could not administer the sacraments , he ruled over the Church as well as over his temporal kingdom , that all authority was vested in him .
5 Then a senior Palace aide on the trip admitted in an exchange with journalists that the marriage was in difficulty .
6 Tass confirmed on Sept. 18 , 1989 , that two Japanese journalists had been selected , in line with a $12,000,000 agreement made in March 1989 with the Tokyo TBS television network , as candidates to give the first space broadcast from Mir at an unspecified date in 1991 , despite earlier protests from Soviet journalists that the decision was unpatriotic .
7 The other two become beaters once the net is set .
8 It also printed some remarks by interested parties that the government was not providing enough money for dissenters from the government policy on the projected PWR to dissent .
9 The proper officer may first refer the matter to the district judge for his directions ( Ord 16 r 6(1) ) ; otherwise , and more likely , he will send out a pro-forma letter informing the parties that the action is transferred , giving its number , and saying that a date will be fixed for hearing , pursuant to Ord 16 , r 6(1) , but inviting the parties to notify the court and other parties within seven days if a pre-trial review is required .
10 Contrary to popular belief among political parties that the environment is a middle-class issue , the poll found equal support — 77 per cent — across the classes for tunnels and re-routing .
11 Contrary to popular belief among political parties that the environment is a middle-class issue , the poll found equal support — 77 per cent — across the classes for tunnels and re-routing .
12 Somehow they had got it into their heads that the specimen was at least fifteen thousand years old .
13 If such was indeed the case , the assertion of later authors that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II , if it has any validity at all , would have to be interpreted as the elevation of an already existing semi-official or official post of no particular consequence , as , in effect , the transformation of the muftilik of Bursa into the Muftilik of the Ottoman lands .
14 I 'm assured by Program Solutions that the problem is being looked into , and that revised drivers will be made available as soon as possible , but even without that mode , this card is a winner .
15 I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist .
16 I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist .
17 Delusions that the mind is being controlled by an external force or that thoughts are being inserted or removed or can be heard by others .
18 The charge will be 0 for the first 6 months that a property is empty .
19 Several years ago , we worked through the New York State Sculpture Bill that makes it necessary for dealers and foundries selling multiples of sculptures to provide complete information on these objects , and warranties that the information is correct .
20 A director would instruct dealers to tell their clients that an announcement was pending " in order to persuade them to buy more or to hold on to stock they wished to sell .
21 Mr Overbye chooses to begin and end his 50-year review of these fascinating realms with Allan Sandage , the anointed successor to Edwin Hubble , the man who , in the late 1920s , first convinced his peers that the universe was expanding .
22 Larger and smaller weights than the gram are built up exactly as they were in the system of length measurement , so that again the table of weights follows the place values of number and decimals .
23 The second is the law and order lobby of the right , which is also picking up on demands that the law be tougher with rapists and other violent criminals .
24 If this is so , the legal model of the company as so far described needs to be rejected in favour of one which does not explain the rules of company law exclusively in terms of the rights of owners , but which instead regards members and employees as joint stakeholders , each with legitimate demands that the company be run for their benefit .
25 This accommodated Walesa 's demands that the constitution be decided by referendum ; the consequences of a negative vote were not spelled out .
26 His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed .
27 Sometimes apparent laziness , or ‘ playing-up ’ can be the response to visual demands that the pupil is having difficulty in coping with .
28 And Francis has no doubts that the sky is the limit for the Sierra Leone-born kid , who has already gained England youth recognition .
29 Ironically , on the ‘ sell-in ’ side — stimulating interest from the trade rather than the public — he has no doubts that the campaign was successful .
30 Put another way , this means that after only 200 milliseconds the target word cohort would have contained an average of 29 words if the word was being identified independently of any context .
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