Example sentences of "[noun prp] [am/are] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland are shite at the moment but that s because all four of their new signings were injured in a car crash . |
| 2 | The herbaceous Paeonias are part of the glory of flower borders in the early summer . |
| 3 | The owners of Land 's End are experts at the game and my friend Des Hannigan , who 's been working as a journalist down there for a few years , tells me they spray press releases at the local media with mad abandon . |
| 4 | Christians in Pakistan are 1% of the population , the rest being 97% Muslim and 2% Hindu . |
| 5 | 25th Of May are graduates of the EMF school of exaggerated jumping about onstage and seem desperate to convince us of their streetwise-raver-hardcore-homeboy credentials . |
| 6 | Allied to the introduction of SSP are changes in the notification and certification procedures . |
| 7 | And most things that make people dislike Maastricht are aspects of the Community that predated it . |
| 8 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 9 | Many of the workers at Westcott are specialists in the field of rocket motors , without Westcott they 're worried there wo n't be a chance of further work in the declining defence industry . |
| 10 | Tim and Patsy Stothert are perfectionists in the art of comfortable chic . |
| 11 | Coach Bobby Fulton admitted Great Britain are favourites for the World Cup on October 24 and said : ‘ It 's a gamble conceding home advantage . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The way things look at the moment , Barney Willard and Rick Lawrence are rivals for the role of chief suspect . |
| 13 | Here at Barashevo are buffers on the siding track because few of the trains that run north from Pot'ma have need to travel further . |
| 14 | The planning chiefs of Cirencester and Cheltenham are members of the Forum and they do n't like what they see happening in their own back yards . |
| 15 | Many schools , colleges and universities in Latin America are part of the church 's empire and so values , inculcated here , are in line with the dominant Catholic Hispanic mores . |
| 16 | The peak periods in Amsterdam are mid-March to the end of May and September . |
| 17 | Indeed , among the more bizarre places to find an Armani are holes in the wall in the Sicilian hill villages around Corleone where unlaundered mafioso cash comes out at tea time every day in search of status-promoting glad rags — the same suits that turn up simultaneously in posh Paris bistros , Los Angeles lizard lounges and the boardrooms of the most respectable British banks . |
| 18 | The Orientals are masters of the art of the illusion of quality , nice fit and finish of trim , while employing cost-cutting techniques deep inside the car where they are not readily apparent . |
| 19 | PC World is part of the Vision Technology Group , Europe 's largest reseller of PCs and peripherals by mail order ; Computers by Post and Hi-Voltage are part of the group . |