Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major institutions are life assurance and pension funds , unit trusts and investment trusts . |
| 2 | ‘ Meetings of all the Palestinian institutions are starting in order to clarify and decide the prospects for the political action in the future , ’ Arafat aide Hakam Balawi said last night . |
| 3 | Most of the other ornaments are terracotta including two handsome dogs which guard the patio . |
| 4 | Every single book is about chess ; every cassette features chess games ; most of the ornaments are chess trophies ; even the framed prints depict chess scenes . |
| 5 | The main operating mines are South Crofty , which works a fissure vein swarm , and Wheal Jane/Mount Wellington , which works an unusual deposit of cassiterite in very fine-grained sulphides , with sphalerite and minor chalcopyrite . |
| 6 | The most commonly used chemicals in flotation plants in tin mines are styrene phosphoric acid , tetrasodium dicarboxethyl sulphosuccinamate , and methylene phosphoric acid . |
| 7 | Most familiar note is long quavering hoot , but equally often heard , especially from young birds in late summer and autumn , is a sharp ‘ ke-wick ’ ( These two notes are origin of traditional ‘ tu-whit , tu-whoo ’ ) . |
| 8 | Right erm these notes are sort of based on a lecture that I went to when I was in sixth form erm and the theme for it is , Men And Women , Do We Speak The Same Language ? |
| 9 | Debts could be negotiated ; decide what of your debts are priority debts . |
| 10 | However , women are the principal victims of this process since embedded in medical ideologies are gender ideologies which label , stereotype and devalue women . |
| 11 | A market segment may be identified and analyzed using the reasons for demand , whether these reasons are consumer or product orientated . |
| 12 | The first shift away from this kind of deixis is where the centre of orientation ( origo ) but not the related objects are part of the canonical situation . |
| 13 | All other objects are incident at =45° . |
| 14 | ‘ Besides stationery , my other passions are pottery and pens , ’ says Tessa . |
| 15 | The cusp catastrophe , in which the stable states are success and failure , has two control factors and three dimensions . |
| 16 | Farmers and vets are part of a culture where very sick or distressed animals are killed . |
| 17 | Others happier with life than vets are glass and ceramics furnacemen and machine tool setters , with a third of the average suicide risk , train drivers and civil service administrators and managers ( less than half ) . |
| 18 | The current official view is therefore that mergers are part and parcel of the competitive process , as opposed to restrictive practices which impede that process . |
| 19 | They know the lairds are straw men now ! ’ |
| 20 | Our skills are invention ; we supply the technology and the catalysts — and the service which ensures continued efficiency . ’ |
| 21 | About 56 million of the 78 million Germans are church members . |
| 22 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 23 | Illustrated by H. K. Browne and George Cattermole , with one illustration by Daniel Maclise and one by Samuel Williams ; the illustrations are wood engravings dropped into the text , giving a close relationship between word and image . |
| 24 | If the clothier 's new policies are part of a scheme to build a new ( and presumably larger ) clientele , we respectfully suggest that the company would be wiser to find these new customers before chasing away the old ones . |
| 25 | The real beneficiaries of EC farm policies are pesticide and fertiliser producers and companies that dispose of EC surpluses , the report claimed . |
| 26 | Conservative law and order policies are humbug ? |
| 27 | Built to a 24½″ scale , the necks are maple and appear to have genuine rosewood fingerboards . |
| 28 | Hard-pressed Scarborough hoteliers are warning of a sharp rise in water rates when Yorkshire Water introduces meter charges from April . |
| 29 | Other solvents suitable for cleaning operations are acetone , used for spot cleaning , butoxy ethanol and glycol ethers which are used in degreaser formulations . |
| 30 | Three examples of pretreatment unit operations are air stripping , activated carbon adsorption , and metals removals . |