Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] are a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7 The fact is that Spurs are a better team than Arsenal . |
| 2 | Well the money would be very welcome at a company that is again finding that computers are a gurgling cash drain , and a single outside investor is very different matter to a host of fractious small shareholders and institutional investors . |
| 3 | It must be recognised that knives are a common feature of everyday life and that , in the wrong hands , almost any bladed or sharply pointed article is potentially a lethal weapon . |
| 4 | It is thought that high-mass X-ray binaries accrete primarily from a stellar wind escaping from the companion star whereas LMXBs accrete by means of Roche-lobe overflow into a disc ; a viable hypothesis is that QPOs are a generic feature of disc accretion , regardless of the precise nature of the compact object . |
| 5 | The old epithet ‘ sea gull ’ just is n't appropriate any more , now that gulls are a familiar sight inland ( without having been driven there by gales ) , and more are around in winter than in summer . |
| 6 | Although people 's institutional knowledge of the comparative costliness of different types of credit is fairly accurate ( in terms , say , of knowing that banks are a cheaper source of loans than HP firms ) , they have little idea of the actual cost of credit , and of how this varies from type to type or firm to firm . |
| 7 | I should be surprised if many Conservative Members opposed a review , although Opposition Members seem to be suggesting that reviews are a bad thing . |
| 8 | Unlike conquering a major peak , it is an inescapable truth that crevasses are a negative factor in the mountains , the avoidance of which is totally lacking in glamour or dinner party kudos . |
| 9 | The outline above suggests that agnathans are a paraphyletic group ( that is , some are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than to other agnathans ) and therefore the presence of circular mouths and pouch-like gills was part of gnathostome history . |
| 10 | This general approach rather clouded the other important conclusion that tribunals are a new method for the independent adjudication of disputes . |
| 11 | I think that themes are a good idea in terms of promotion ; they draw attention to the breadth of art represented by the top range of dealers at Grosvenor House . |
| 12 | Personally , I believe that zoos are a good thing . |
| 13 | The first is that treaties are a major tool for the development of international law . |
| 14 | The view can be frequently heard from paid workers in the CAB that volunteers are a privileged class who can not empathise with many of the clients who come to the CAB . |
| 15 | This acclaimed Barber feels that men are a neglected species and in his ‘ men only ’ beauty salon Daniel offers a multitude of manly treatments . |
| 16 | This implies that dividends are a weighted average of past earnings in which the most recent earnings figures are the most important in determining the level of current dividend . |
| 17 | Equation ( 6.17 ) implies that dividends are a constant proportion of share wealth ( P0 ) and are set at exactly the level necessary to enable that share wealth to deliver the same dividend in all future periods . |
| 18 | The general rule here is that dukes are a better topic than baronets , especially dukes who have been through several expensive duchesses ( you can never have enough ex- duchesses ) . |
| 19 | This partly reflects the fact that strikes are a dramatic form of conflict ( or at least they can be portrayed as dramatic events ) , and partly it reflects the fact that public opinion in Britain is firmly fixed upon strikes . |