Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For index futures there is clear evidence that the futures price leads the spot price by a few minutes , while for lags of a day the evidence is much weaker . |
| 2 | Even with food industry products there is some confusion over the application of the term . |
| 3 | In cases where MPRP members had stood as opposition candidates there was some confusion over the exact allocation of seats , but according to the elections commission , the MPRP won 357 seats , and the pro-MPRP Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League won nine seats . |
| 4 | On this side of the House and , I suspect , on many parts of the Opposition Benches there is equal recognition , although unspoken , that those who do not have such a well-founded fear , some other compelling compassionate reason which justifies their remaining or another legitimate claim to stay , should return to their country . |
| 5 | In the individual fighting categories there are ten weight divisions for men and eight for women . |
| 6 | For management skills there is greater emphasis on the objectives and how they are arrived at . |
| 7 | But for dairy farmers there 's another side to the badger ; a carrier of the lung disease TB , which can be passed onto cattle . |
| 8 | As a result , as local councils set their own poll tax rates there was widespread opposition , including campaigns of non-registration and of potential non-payment . |
| 9 | For many ‘ A ’ stream children there was little place on the timetable for music , dance , art , craft , poetry , the humanities — subjects which were dismissed as window-dressing by some of my professional colleagues . |
| 10 | What is worse , beneath the landfill sites there were old mining workings . |
| 11 | With the emphasis switching to control over production , to quality , and to quite massive and well-orchestrated publicity campaigns there was less need to rely on the shock value of a new kind of film . |
| 12 | As pollution in India is set to rise with the growing pace of industrialisation and the increasing ownership of motor cars there is little hope that the Taj will survive without considerable damage to its surface and a need for continuous restoration . |
| 13 | The incidence is one in ten thousand so it 's pretty rare but untreated these children will grow up very seriously , mentally retarded , very , very poor quality of life and enormous stress on their families , when they could of been nearly normal , right so the cause is one of these essential amino acids which is powdered protein , so what 's the treatment ? |
| 14 | Whilst the National Audit Office 's 1987 report subsequently criticised MDC for its initial policy failures there is some validity in its argument that the economic climate in the early 1980s , not MDC 's internal failings , was primarily responsible for curbing industrial growth on Merseyside . |
| 15 | Even in its planning stages there was intense opposition to the series . |
| 16 | Great colourful graphics , very hard ( well that 's what I think , when it comes to computer games I 'm pretty rubbish ) , fun . |
| 17 | Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit . |
| 18 | Today , on several of the new wharf developments there are huge rat and mice infestations . |
| 19 | Firstly , as we have already explained , even after allowing for differences in the mix of offender or offence types there is considerable variation in the use of custody on the part of both magistrates courts and Crown Courts in different parts of the country . |
| 20 | Every Saturday in the summer months there is open-air theatre in the gardens . |
| 21 | This is mainly because in the summer months there is less rainfall and cloud and so the grain ripens well and can be harvested easily . |
| 22 | York Minster Archives There is much material from the Middle Ages to the present ( 1150 onwards ) . |
| 23 | 1.5 It proved very difficult to assess in how many other initial training courses there was explicit language work . |
| 24 | As for the detailed number criteria there is little reference at this stage to likely success rates or to the difficulty factors which are associated with variation in success rates . |
| 25 | Back on the country roads there was more time to play with the switches , and wonder how we might stop the heated seats giving us sticky shirts ( no luck , though Swedish efficiency doubtless means that this was our fault ) . |
| 26 | Operating in sections it 's corporals and below who if they are to encoutner problems it 's those sort of ranks who 'll have to fix it . |
| 27 | The early mortality for elected admissions was point four percent and this was found to be significantly lower than the early mortality rate for emergency admissions which was two point four percent , some six times higher . |
| 28 | The late mortality rate for elected admission was two point nine percent and this again was significantly less than the er er late mortality rate for emergency admissions which was six point one percent . |
| 29 | The boiler is 120lbs per square inch pressure with two cylinders of three and a half inch diameter , four and a quarter stroke working on driving wheels which are ten inch . |
| 30 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |