Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This word is ‘ Readers ’ , which seems to indicate by my reckoning that 5 out of every 6 letters written on women players are sent to readers who are Steffi Graf fans . |
| 2 | Within shops there are computer-readable price tags to enable the retailer to exercise control over stock and financial transactions , and there are an increasing number of electronic point of sale ( EPOS ) terminals . |
| 3 | In a hypothetical life-form with both hands of amino acid it is possible that rather than no helices being created , there would be helical molecules which were true mirror images of one another . |
| 4 | ‘ Whether in Southall , Singapore or New York , it is Indians who rule the discount shops , all happy making money , selling to other Indians who are happy spending money , knowing that they are actually saving money . |
| 5 | A survey has been made of the twenty-six judges who were active Law Lords during the period 1952–68 together with two Lord Chief Justices , two Masters of the Rolls and one president of what was then the Probate , Divorce and Admiralty Division . |
| 6 | Enthusiasts who are both cave spotters and train spotters will enjoy Batty Green ; others not so addicted will probably not , the area being pathless and rough underfoot and lacking the beauty of other parts of the region . |
| 7 | What is worse , beneath the landfill sites there were old mining workings . |
| 8 | In England for example , unemployment in the North is twice that in the South-East , and in most European countries there are lesser employment opportunities in rural areas as opposed to urban areas resulting in depopulation of the countryside and an increase in the size of cities . |
| 9 | The markets , and the employers who are busy fuelling wage inflation , expect a depreciation . |
| 10 | I do n't know whether other newly married men feel the same , but in those early days I was aware ofa calm satisfaction and fulfilment . |
| 11 | I remember the gypsies or didycoys congregating outside their favourite pubs in Milford Street on Tuesdays and Saturdays which were both Market Days . |
| 12 | Every night the show finished at eleven ; after the Saturday performance they would have to pack the stage costumes and props carefully into skips which were large wicker baskets which could be thrown around without harm to the contents . |
| 13 | It is a sign of the programme 's success that in the UK in the mid-1980s there were 283,000 Limousin inseminations ( from 40 bulls ) , representing more than 10 per cent of all artificial inseminations . |
| 14 | After an interval of several weeks there were further exchange visits between the two households . |
| 15 | Within fifty years there were several silk factories employing four hundred to eight hundred persons , but the silk industry was of secondary importance and did not initiate the factory system . |
| 16 | The only thing see is that it 's all my own tapes they 're such crap ones and like they just sound really bad when they 're recorded on . |
| 17 | integrating cos squared just to get to that stage they had thousands of years they were full time professionals did nothing else but it . |
| 18 | ‘ The trial shows that by careful choice and timing of cultivations and herbicide applications it is possible blackgrass control even in areas where the yield-robbing weed is out of control , ’ explains Ciba-Geigy 's Andy Pigott . |
| 19 | In the next few days he was busy making size , painting signs and colouring the room and ‘ hooking . ’ |
| 20 | Two pork pies and a can of Coke each but not the apples which were imported Granny Smiths and bruised , and anyway they had strawberries . |
| 21 | Because of the exemptions provided by the DTI and the SIB respectively , these restrictions in practice normally do not apply to what may be called in general terms business investors , typically persons who are ordinary business investors on the size test ( see page 36 above ) . |
| 22 | Within these overall figures there were significant phase differences . |
| 23 | In European waters there were coastal pilot handbooks , but these cautioned the sailor away from rocky beaches , the forbidding shores on which commandos expected to land . |
| 24 | In research into effective managers it is this background theme which correlates positively with success , not the recognition theme . |
| 25 | For each of these values there were two train crossing times : 10 and 30 seconds . |
| 26 | If that oxygen to the brain should cease for just ten seconds the result is a coma ; after three minutes there is irreversible brain damage . |
| 27 | In America within some states there are many school districts with decades of experience of such externally imposed and grade-related tests to enable teachers to make predictions and check by observation and testing the outcome . |
| 28 | Other terms which are useful access points but which will not be used as index terms are listed in light type . |
| 29 | Investment has turned positive overall at the U K level and the regions which are leading investment expectations and this is people 's expectations about what they 're going to do in terms of investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead which I think is probably the meaningful one to focus on rather than buildings numbers erm the two regions which are leading that are the south west erm and that makes sense because the south west is , has the lowest number of firms who say that they 're working below capacity and also the West Midlands , for the last five surveys the West Midlands has either been the most optimistic |
| 30 | Now orders came from and Sons the printers who were great target printers , and are still today the great target printer . |