Example sentences of "[noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although shy by nature , Datnoides are remarkably intelligent , soon coming to recognise their owner and apparently enjoying attention , feeding happily from the hand . |
| 2 | KPMG Peat Marwick , Sakura Global Capital and BDO Binder Hamlyn are among the companies that have paid £1,000 for a table to seat their team of 10 contestants . |
| 3 | Chartered accountants BDO Binder Hamlyn are also sponsoring the event . |
| 4 | This means that at the moment it is being used closest to the hook , where presentation and visibility are vital factors and , because it is so different to nylon , many users have problems knotting it . |
| 5 | Closely linked to the issues concerning this form of representation and visibility are the attitudinal issues — the attitudes towards women in such positions , and our own attitudes , as women in those positions , towards our positions and towards other women . |
| 6 | They say that the stop signs , the visibility is n't erm again , he 's going to s to erm er he says that the stop signs , the visibility is n't bad enough , that the , the difficulties in visibility are n't bad enough , but he 's going to reexamine that particular situation . |
| 7 | ‘ The outlaws are not like that ? ’ |
| 8 | The examples at Kaupanger ( Sognfjord ) , built c. 1200 but rebuilt in 1862 , and at Fantoft , near Bergen are simpler but also of considerable interest . |
| 9 | If they are predominantly female , and 83 per cent of part-timers are , the equal pay legislation may entitle them to the same benefits and conditions as their full-time colleagues . |
| 10 | As most part-timers are women , it would be considered ‘ grossly discriminatory ’ to have ‘ a part-timers first ’ rule on redundancy selection ! |
| 11 | Most part-timers are women , which explains why women have fared better in this recession than men . |
| 12 | In addition all the functions of the unc sec. stopwatch are complemented by audible signals . |
| 13 | Here P–40 replicas are nearing completion . |
| 14 | Replicas are very useful for reconstruction activities . |
| 15 | Fairies are supposed to make tapestries of light beams , but these tapestries of the mind are made of thread even finer . |
| 16 | We talk about ‘ god ’ sometimes here at home , and you have been told at school to sing hymns and say prayers to ‘ god ’ , and you hear ‘ god ’ spoken about on the radio and television , also your friends talk and argue about ‘ god ’ , but nobody at all will tell you who or what ‘ god ’ really is , and this is because ‘ god ’ is only imaginary just as fairies are . |
| 17 | Also known as Koblernigh , these Welsh mining fairies are cousins of the Cornish KNOCKERS . |
| 18 | Taking a cutting from the tree on Hallowe'en or May Day when the fairies are about is also extremely foolhardy . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps the ancient fairies are looking after things round here . ’ |
| 20 | Fairies are reported to be thick on the ground living in grassy mounds all over the island . |
| 21 | End up amongst them and the problems are evident , unless of course the wood fairies are smiling upon you . |
| 22 | Women in Islam are held in very high esteem , which Westerners do n't seem to realise . |
| 23 | The aspirations of the knightly class at its best and the sense that Christendom must go over to the offensive against Islam are nowhere more succinctly expressed than in this poem , written when the Christian reconquest of Spain was well under way , but when the crusades had only just begun , shortly before or shortly after the launching of the First Crusade . |
| 24 | BLACK MUSLIMS FROM the Nation of Islam are gathered in force outside the Hackney Empire . |
| 25 | The Koran and Islam are in danger . " |
| 26 | MMITs are the building blocks for microwave systems used in satellite TV dishes and cellular radio systems . |
| 27 | The bedrooms are all modestly furnished and have a telephone but some superior rooms , which are newly refurbished and boast a sea view , balcony , a colour TV and a mini-bar are also available at a supplement quoted below . |
| 28 | Affection and dread are mixed in ambivalence , grief becomes guilt , and often a disgust factor at the kind of tasks to be undertaken compounds the pain ( Ungerson , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | Simple endorsements of one or another nostrum are of no service to the teaching of reading ’ . |
| 30 | There are 77 other local authorities playing the markets in a similar , though less extensive , way , and a similar number of financial institutions are involved . |