Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | ‘ The outlaws are not like that ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As most part-timers are women , it would be considered ‘ grossly discriminatory ’ to have ‘ a part-timers first ’ rule on redundancy selection ! |
| 5 | Most part-timers are women , which explains why women have fared better in this recession than men . |
| 6 | Here P–40 replicas are nearing completion . |
| 7 | Replicas are very useful for reconstruction activities . |
| 8 | Fairies are supposed to make tapestries of light beams , but these tapestries of the mind are made of thread even finer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Also known as Koblernigh , these Welsh mining fairies are cousins of the Cornish KNOCKERS . |
| 11 | Taking a cutting from the tree on Hallowe'en or May Day when the fairies are about is also extremely foolhardy . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps the ancient fairies are looking after things round here . ’ |
| 13 | Fairies are reported to be thick on the ground living in grassy mounds all over the island . |
| 14 | End up amongst them and the problems are evident , unless of course the wood fairies are smiling upon you . |
| 15 | MMITs are the building blocks for microwave systems used in satellite TV dishes and cellular radio systems . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The structure of the privatisation is such that institutions are effectively being left with no say in how they spend the funds they are supposed to manage on behalf of their clients . |
| 18 | So the institutions are being dragooned into subscribing for a package of shares in all 10 companies . |
| 19 | ‘ This just shows how hungry institutions are for commissions , ’ one banker said . |
| 20 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 21 | Mr Bryan Gould is generally rated less European than the Shadow Chancellor , Mr John Smith ; and Mr Gerald Kaufman , the Shadow Foreign Secretary , has swung round from gut anti-Europeanism to a conviction that powerful central institutions are unavoidable — and Britain should play its full part . |
| 22 | The savings and loan saga provides a startling illustration of how badly matters can go wrong when institutions are cut loose from regulation without proper supervision . |
| 23 | The institutions are now prepared to lend larger multiples of income , and higher proportions of the purchase price . |
| 24 | Our international institutions are frail , fragile and tend to be powerless . |
| 25 | In contrast , most big American and European institutions are already at or above the BIS target . |
| 26 | True , some of these institutions are divided . |
| 27 | All of these institutions are in conflict with their counterparts in Belorussia and with the top Soviet nuclear institute , the Moscow-controlled All-Union Centre for Radiation Research . |
| 28 | Institutions are rushing after shops in cathedral towns . |
| 29 | ‘ But the institutions are concentrating almost entirely on covenant and length of lease . |
| 30 | These institutions are among some 200 ‘ unverified and lost ’ , and so excluded from the 11th edition of the Directory of British Associations , just out . |