Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Of the French cheeses , Bleu d'Auvergne and Forme d'Ambert are my favourites , in addition to Roquefort . |
2 | Even as the ‘ external functions ’ of the Soviet Armed Forces acquire real importance , the principal means upon which the USSR relies to influence change are what Westerners are accustomed to call ‘ other means ’ : moral , political and material support furnished below the legal threshold of intervention , designed to encourage and revolutionise or at least influence and infiltrate . |
3 | They confer a right to the ‘ equity ’ in the company and , in so far as members can be said to own the company , the ordinary shareholders are its proprietors , It is they who bear the lion 's share of the risk and they who in good years take the lion 's share of the profits ( after the directors and managers have been remunerated ) . |
4 | The Minister will be aware from her files that two of the 62 cases are my constituents . |
5 | So , if buoyant , flamboyant tremblings are your bag , Velvet Crush are your shoulder strap . |
6 | ‘ These ponies are our friends , they work hard for us . |
7 | And Wexford who was an agnostic , a profane man , thought , Lord , how manifold are thy works in all the earth . |
8 | The individual 's responsibility in conversion is to repent and believe ; God 's initiative and response are his gift of forgiveness and his gift of the Holy Spirit ; and the church 's role is to welcome the new believer into fellowship , symbolizing this publicly in the act of baptism . |
9 | Because the only records of the ancestral forms are their fossils , without any soft tissues like brains and nerves , the brain structures and behaviour of such ancestors can only be inferred by studying their present-day descendants . |
10 | The sharp peaks are what Hoffman identified as the markers for 1461 and 2615 keV ; the signal that interested Fleischmann and Pons consists of the dotted structure around 2500 keV . |
11 | The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
12 | The clue to what he meant is the last sentence from Lewis : ‘ The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
13 | The array of glittering jewels and beautifully arranged hors-doeuvres are themselves works of art . |
14 | Its principal inputs are its address lines , which may each be set to 0 or 1 . |
15 | What are the Ministry of Defence estimates of the costs of that and what attempts are his Department making to cover some of those costs ? |
16 | They 're not safe these houses are they dad ? |
17 | What he had loved about Sylvie had always in part been his inability to pin her down , to capture her . |
18 | On one side of the scales are our resources and on the other side the demands that life places upon us . |
19 | The tRNA molecules are themselves copies of DNA genes in the nucleus . |
20 | Generally , an exchange 's rules are themselves usages , not least because they should be followed by all the exchange 's members . |
21 | The birds are our friends . |
22 | He has also published a children 's book on the birds of Vietnam , The Birds Are Our Friends , for distribution in Vietnam 's school system . |
23 | ‘ The birds are our cars , ’ Don Mini said to Little Billy . |
24 | ‘ Risks are my business . |
25 | I have one question about it though , and that is ar , if you 're calling them guidelines are they guidelines or are they mandatory . |
26 | Human lives do n't matter , but sovereigns are what make the world go round … |
27 | But because methods are what psychology judges itself on , a woman-centred psychology needs to address them . |
28 | Lists are what parties choose to make of them . |
29 | Octopus tentacles are its favourite . |
30 | One of the most interesting aspects of relational databases are their data manipulation languages . |