Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With industry agreements there is a wider separation of the centres of decision-making as well as more overlap in the determination of pay since it has traditionally been understood that nationally negotiated terms in some industries were minima which could be improved upon at enterprise level . |
| 2 | The most relevant categories to compare in such cases are ones which are immediately in contrast to one another . |
| 3 | The results of such changes are institutions which concentrate very largely on advanced vocational and general courses . |
| 4 | These lads were adventurers who had acquired the habit of applying a simplified anarchistic logic to life , involving contempt for all property , contempt for life and human personality , contempt for cleanliness , order , and so on . |
| 5 | These models are constructions which are aimed directly at influencing the development of law . |
| 6 | Do not think these days are days they are the sacrificial priests of the telephone |
| 7 | And these aims were ones I could share with others . |
| 8 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 9 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 10 | These studies are examples which illustrate the effects of good staff communication but there is also evidence of the results of communication breakdown . |
| 11 | These figures are averages which cover a very wide variation between individual classes . |
| 12 | Many families were Ethiopians who had gone as refugees to Somalia to escape the Ogaden war in 1977 and who were now returning . |
| 13 | In proving in Z and in Q[x] that all irreducibles are primes we make essential use of the appropriate division algorithm . |
| 14 | Many employees were engineers who built scientific equipment that they were unable to buy from the West and who became superfluous when the two German economies were combined . |
| 15 | When enterprises plan their production on the criterion of profitability they are only honouring their obligation to their shareholders — — to earn them a reasonable return on their money — and if those shareholders are institutions which are in turn merely trustees of the people 's savings … well , evidently notions of class struggle and exploitation must be out of date . |
| 16 | It is the plaintiff 's case that all those losses were losses they would not have incurred erm had there been no breach of contract . |
| 17 | Most grasses are perennials which last almost indefinitely under the right conditions . |
| 18 | Most teachers are graduates who have taken a one-year Postgraduate Certificate of Education course . |
| 19 | Howard protested against the use of alcohol in prisons , whereas the substances of abuse today in most administrations are drugs which are taken in small quantities and therefore can be smuggled in . |
| 20 | But at the end of the day they are n't in that league cos most thieves are opportunists they seize a common opportunity that is presented to them by or it could be they 've actually just watched her go out and more of a chance . |