Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also known as Koblernigh , these Welsh mining fairies are cousins of the Cornish KNOCKERS . |
| 2 | Most of the criticisms levelled against the world 's religions are criticisms of failure . |
| 3 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 4 | Included in protection are methods for detecting likely hazard events and in warning those likely to be affected . |
| 5 | In the crossing cupola are mosaics of the Christ Pantocrator with four angels around him . |
| 6 | The giants are experts on working the crowd up into ‘ He 's behind you ! ’ pantomime scenarios and on making the physical manoeuvres look and sound bruising . |
| 7 | The Isles of the Blessed , the Chinese Isles of Orchids and their peach blossom spring , such ideas as Eldorado , Shangri La , heaven , nirvana are examples of this need . |
| 8 | " They may be familiar with the paintings of Whistler , or perhaps with Whistler 's statement that when evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry , as with a veil , and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky , and the tall chimneys become campanili , and the warehouses are palaces in the night , and the whole city hangs in the heavens , and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home , and Nature , who , for once , has sung in tune , sings her exquisite song to the artist alone , her son and her master — her son , in that he loves her , her master in that he knows her ? " … shall I read you that deposition again , Mrs James ? " |
| 9 | Promissory notes are bills of exchange to which special rules are applicable . |
| 10 | Lions are enemies of zebras . |
| 11 | Series 444 round and 555 flat Cotman Brushes from Winsor & Newton are ranges of pure synthetic brushes which have fibres of differing thicknesses to help them perform like sable . |
| 12 | Although gestures can misfire and some serious suicide attempts fail ( it is not always easy to distinguish between the gesture and the serious attempt ) , both acts are expressions of immense aggression and can leave behind a trail of guilt and remorse . |
| 13 | Ideologies are constructions of reality that serve to support claims to power or authority ( Holzner 1972 : 144 ) . |
| 14 | Behind the breakdown in discussions are charges from the Canadians that the Reagan administration has systematically disrupted the work of the scientists . |
| 15 | Fundamental to all such discussions are assumptions about the rate of evolution of decorative styles and the definition of the circumstances in which such evolution took place . |
| 16 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 17 | Section 682 provides that income arising under a settlement shall be deemed not to have been distributed if and to the extent that it exceeds the aggregate of : ( i ) the sums , excluding all payments of interest , paid in that year by the trustees of the settlement to any persons ( not being a body corporate connected with the settlement and not being the trustees of another settlement made by the settlor or the trustees of the settlement ) in such manner that they fall to be treated in that year , otherwise than by virtue of s677 above , as the income of those persons for the purposes of income tax , or would fall to be so treated if those persons were domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and the sums had been paid to them there ; and ( ii ) subject to s682(2)– ( 5 ) ( rules for ascertaining undistributed income where interest is paid by trustees ) any expenses of the trustees of the settlement paid in that year which , in the absence of any express provision of the settlement , would be properly chargeable to income , in so far as such expenses are not included in the sums mentioned in para ( i ) above ; and ( iii ) in a case where the trustees of the settlement are trustees for charitable purposes , the amount by which any income arising under the settlement in that year in respect of which exemption from tax may be granted under s505 of TA 1988 exceeds the aggregate amount of any such sums or expenses as aforesaid paid in that year which are properly chargeable to that income . |
| 18 | Herons are masters of this technique . |
| 19 | Clean air and defence are examples of public goods . |
| 20 | When you perform this algorithm , the states are pairs of numbers ( x , x ) where x |
| 21 | At this point it is worth taking a step back from the scene and recalling that the Soviet Union and all the East European states are signatories to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution . |
| 22 | Such States are parties to the treaty , but not to the proceedings . |
| 23 | States are entitled to rely upon compliance with prescribed procedures when determining which other States are parties to particular treaties . |
| 24 | All States are non-parties to the declaration of any other State , but an accepting State is a party to ‘ the system of the Optional Clause in relation to the other declarant States , with all the rights and obligations deriving from Article 36 ’ . |
| 25 | States are monoliths with interests , and the main interest of each is the maximization of its power . |
| 26 | The safer investments are ones with more people involved . |
| 27 | A quarter of all UK vets are graduates of the College whilst worldwide former graduates are daily actively involved in the care and welfare of animals . |
| 28 | As regards the latter , some of the most mobile in the British case are workers in personal services ; those , for example , seeking work in the catering trades . |
| 29 | Presentation of speakers and occasions to present the case are highlights of such work , but around all such events the public relations officer has an hourly job of relating to the media what is happening in the argument and what the various leaders are saying and thinking . |
| 30 | The women in this case are suspects in their own right , especially if we take notice of that boy , though from what you–say I ca n't see Anna 's mother hauling herself up on the scaffolding behind Benson 's , or making a run for it when the boy turned up . ’ |