Example sentences of "[be] [noun] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many schools there are PTAs and School Associations which , though not political ( in a party sense ) , have shown themselves willing to confront the local authority — be that ‘ authority ’ an individual headteacher , a school staff or the divisional or county education officer — when moved to do so . |
| 2 | The conditions which encourage attack are moisture and lack of good ventilation , but the common furniture beetle , the House Longhorn , thrives in dry internal conditions and is often found in skirtings , door frames , pelmets , under stairs and around trap-doors . |
| 3 | This , combined with the economic upturn means that increasingly , there are skills and labour shortages . |
| 4 | The commonest of these are asbestos and mica , which is why they have their peculiar and useful properties . |
| 5 | For the moment The Globe 's most obvious requirements are money and timber . |
| 6 | The only other vendors to show any real OEM activity are Omnipage and Xyvision . |
| 7 | Two seemingly harmless items which inmates are forbidden to touch are essences and yeast . |
| 8 | Our anchor has always been faith and family . |
| 9 | Other grains present are rye and barley malt , which also contribute flavour . |
| 10 | But of the 20 US companies in the table , five are telecommunications carriers , five are aerospace and defence electronics specialists , and four are computer companies . |
| 11 | Their hobbies are badminton and walking . |
| 12 | The way they are cut also disguises her smallish breasts and widish hips while making the most of her height : thus are ideology and vanity equally satisfied . |
| 13 | What they confirm is the complex notion of uneven development outlined in the last section , and how the changing geography of the UK since the mid-'60s has been part and parcel of its wider transformation . |
| 14 | This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations . |
| 15 | THE first black woman MP represents a poor area in which a third are non-whites and health and housing are big issues . |
| 16 | In most countries there are clinics and advice centres with a free phone line . |
| 17 | A major worry for patients in psychiatric hospitals has always been money and access to it . |
| 18 | Today , the most important parts of an aircraft maintenance problemsolving process are expertise and reasoning . |
| 19 | The smoke had been west and north when they had looked from the Ridgery . |
| 20 | ‘ There has always been honesty and integrity in my performance . |
| 21 | All of them are shit and rubbish recording . |
| 22 | Her concerns are nutrition and hygiene dominated . |
| 23 | Its two main slogans , repeated countless times in the directives issued by the underground leadership , are freedom and independence . |
| 24 | In the catering field , main areas of activity are contract and inflight catering , hotels and a rapidly expanding fast food industry . |
| 25 | Two problematical areas in modern-day criminal law are dishonesty and intention . |
| 26 | What use are roads and telecommunication systems to them ? |
| 27 | On the other hand , none of these items can be considered to be collective consumption , as are roads and street lighting , for example . |
| 28 | The advantages of such a computerised filing system are reliability and flexibility . |
| 29 | CPRW believes this point is of fundamental importance because although in planning terms many large , static caravan sites like Meadow House are considered to enjoy ‘ permanent ’ consent , the caravans themselves can not be construed as being ‘ permanent ’ in the same way as are brick and stone built properties . |
| 30 | But in the Baltic area , in Lithuania , Latvia , Estonia and right round to the coastal strip of the White Sea , there are brick and timber buildings which have much in common with those found in the Baltic region of eastern Germany and Poland . |