Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now calcium silicate is the slag . |
| 2 | One of the key obstacles to achieving a significant deficit reduction was the President 's 1988 pledge not to raise taxes , one of the few firm commitments made by Bush during his entire presidential election campaign . |
| 3 | Since money income is the magnitude that underlies the day-to-day standard of living and , depending on the definition , the variable that will ( to some extent ) reflect wealth , most studies concentrate on this figure . |
| 4 | Within these models , typically , information is processed by the individual ; economic , socio-cultural and psychological influences are evaluated and related ; and a purchase/no purchase decision is the result . |
| 5 | Typically , information is processed by the individual ; economic , socio-cultural and psychological influences are evaluated and related ; and a purchase/no purchase decision is the result . |
| 6 | Cassidy 's ( 1986 ) dispirited view is that the ‘ major obstacle to curriculum change is the resistance of teachers . |
| 7 | Democracy of the shared class-room experience is the cradle of democracy in the outside world . |
| 8 | The people who know about the potential effect of a blanket ban are the tobacco manufacturers and they are not so sanguine about the prospect , threatening to pull their plants out of Britain if the ban comes into force . |
| 9 | So the key to writing the suspense story is the creation , one after another , of situations of suspense . |
| 10 | The Chancel part is the house which is plastered over and whitewashed , consisting of a ground room or kitchen with one or two chambers over it , near the south east buttress , a small door is broken through , for an entrance to the house . |
| 11 | The washermen in this system are members of the Hena caste and their caste function is the handling of ritually polluted objects and the provision of ritually clean clothes and pieces of cloth . |
| 12 | However , a noticeable difference between school and university teaching is the lack of personal attention ; and this was a particular source of anxiety for some students . |
| 13 | Monetarists argued that excessive growth in the money stock was the root cause of the inflationary problem , and that any tradeoff between inflation and unemployment was at best temporary . |
| 14 | On the west side are the twin escarpments of Fell End Clouds and Stennerskeugh Clouds , and on the east a broad shelf is pitted by a long line of shakeholes and potholes , the Angerholme Pots . |
| 15 | The principal problem for both speech and handwriting recognition is the variability of the input . |
| 16 | In all major areas ( secondary school selection , the applications of financial grants to specific activities , school building , staffing levels … ) the local authority made decisions and the teaching force were the agents through which policy was implemented . |
| 17 | This meant that profit and loss became the criteria upon which the majority of industry had to operate ( the defence industry being the exception ) . |
| 18 | The specific focus of the Loughborough University research was the effect of the national curriculum on secondary school libraries . |
| 19 | One of the worst features of research in the drug industry is the work which needs to be done to make and test products which are only marginally different from existing ones . |
| 20 | A kind of traumatized folk-punk , shifting fitfully between grace and frenzy , extremes of heat and cold , their debut album is the choreography of a body possessed and scattered by dread : as The Stud Brothers put it , music like ‘ a punch , accentuating and projecting every hiss , mutter and scream … so exact and punctual it 's simply sublime . ’ |
| 21 | On the liability side is the 8% of the stock reserved for the employees which is being handled as debt . |
| 22 | The application of semantic knowledge to the problem of text recognition is the subject of this thesis . |
| 23 | The first stage of computerised text recognition is the input of data . |
| 24 | Well the election agent was the man responsible for getting that data through to the , the candidate to say that you 're speaking at a meeting , such and such a night , and another meeting at such and such so keeping the , keeps that candidate on his toes , all the time , during an election campaign until election 's over and then of course er you know what transpires after that I su it 's either |
| 25 | Despite the predominance of the medical faculty in attracting research grants , the unit with the largest contract turnover was the archaeology department . |
| 26 | Laxatives are inefficient in preventing the absorption of calories , and any consequent weight reduction is the result of a loss of essential body fluids . |
| 27 | The stock level is the number of a particular product that is kept in stock . |
| 28 | Part of the modern football experience is the rush of excitement when the local pink or green ‘ sports final ’ arrives . |
| 29 | Featureless sheds surrounded by the requisite area of unkempt grass and undersized dying trees as well as an extensive car park is the norm for most types of modern industry . |
| 30 | Lying near the car park is the trunk of a massive Elm killed by Dutch Elm Disease several years ago . |