Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Isles of the Blessed , the Chinese Isles of Orchids and their peach blossom spring , such ideas as Eldorado , Shangri La , heaven , nirvana are examples of this need . |
| 2 | Presentation of speakers and occasions to present the case are highlights of such work , but around all such events the public relations officer has an hourly job of relating to the media what is happening in the argument and what the various leaders are saying and thinking . |
| 3 | Farther into the light at gallery level are sculptures of those who helped build the cathedral : Charles IV , his mother , his third and fourth wives and his son , the two architects including the self-portrait of Peter Parler , the master masons and three archbishops . |
| 4 | The anticipated products of the research are materials for those running schools to analyse the effectiveness of their organisation and management and find ways in which practice could be improved . |
| 5 | For example , the voluntary agreement seems to protect young women ( aged 16–24 ) from cigarette advertising by requiring that no advertisement be placed in magazines whose primary readership is women in that age range . |
| 6 | THE Petersfield branch of the Embroiderers Guild are hosts of this year 's south west region festival . |
| 7 | Gathered around the drop zone were children from several local schools . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the twenty years following the Act were ones of such rapid development in policy in the child care field that by 1968 the Seebohm Report recommended the absorption of the child care service by unified social services departments and the merging of specialist child work into generic social work . |
| 9 | Art and Nature are keystones in this learning , and they concern enjoyment and appreciation rather than examinations . |
| 10 | The computer in the classroom and the television and video in the sitting room are symbols of this change . |
| 11 | In LE , sore [ ] rhymes with law [ ] ( Wells 1982 : 310 ) , while saw and lore are homophones of these , respectively . |
| 12 | From both points of view , the demands of real listening — to autonomous works — are replaced by functions of psychosocial conditioning ; Adorno 's most complex typologies of listening behaviour are elaborations of this basic position ( Adorno 1941 : 32–48 ; 1976 : 1–20 ) . |
| 13 | From my present point of view the question of whether the manufacturers on opposite sides of a human arms race are enemies of each other or identical with each other is irrelevant , and interestingly so . |
| 14 | About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent . |
| 15 | There will of course be refreshments for all callers and the range of merchandise will be the most comprehensive available . |
| 16 | Stoma care and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis are examples of this . |
| 17 | The distributional consequences of government policy are matters of much contemporary public interest and controversy . |
| 18 | The house was a completely original design — neither the interior nor the exterior were copies of any existing royal palace , building or other Lutyens commission . |
| 19 | For one thing , the personnel of the state are members of some of these interest groups themselves , and the more powerful state personnel will tend to be members of , or sympathetic to — or sharing the ideology of — the more powerful and entrenched classes and groups . |
| 20 | There to witness the start of this years harvest were representatives of some of the world 's biggest breweries . |
| 21 | It is our judgement that all of the authors considered in this book were victims of such disorder and that the accounts of their lives in subsequent chapters can stand alone as evidence of that . |
| 22 | Makowka , as it happened , had worked on the Finding , but he and North were strangers to each other ; he was amazed that ‘ he would be mentioning something as sensitive as that in this sort of context ’ . |
| 23 | Both the prevailing company culture and industrial bargaining structure were barriers to this . |
| 24 | Hyperoid It 's Asteroids by another name , again with some additions ( although I was never any good at this one , so maybe they 've just chopped a few levels out ) . |
| 25 | Neighbouring the railway station the hotel is minutes from all the main sights — the cathedral , Ponte Vecchio and galleries . |
| 26 | This belly is stimuli to any intruding male to elicit an aggressive attack . |
| 27 | Our current systems of adversary law and politics are examples of such professionalism . |
| 28 | Indeed , freedom of movement and a certain degree of exhilaration are essentials of all true physical education . |
| 29 | Now if you can just say on that , that that excludes any resources for the economic development action plan and for the time being resources for that initiative are being held centrally into Personnel and Finance sub-committee 's budget and as the action plans develop then money will be released from a contingency there to er go to the Planning Department or to whichever department that has actually been implementing that particular part of the action . |
| 30 | But the real interest is truncheons in all their variety . |