Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For his purposes data sheets are ideal and standard tests laid down by the national standards institutions are the methods that he uses . |
| 2 | Amongst the criticisms of UK financial institutions are the allegations that UK banks place too great an emphasis on lending to consumers , whereas overseas banks are primarily concerned with long-term industrial finance . |
| 3 | These magnitudes are the outcomes of hypothetical thought experiments on the part of firms . |
| 4 | These habitual acts are the rituals of sanity . |
| 5 | Under this heading in the accounts are the costs of the transport of the dressed copper ore , from the mine to the quay on the lake side , and from there by boat to the copper house at Nibthwaite at the foot of the lake . |
| 6 | There is a naive search space , whose states are the situations which you could produce , and the real space whose states record ways of obtaining naive states . |
| 7 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 8 | So , it is variations in income levels which equate total injections and leakages , even though these flows are the results of the decisions of millions of different economic agents . |
| 9 | Skills are the residues of learning . |
| 10 | Knowledge and skills are the tools that enable clients to become more able to do this — and the interviewer 's task is to use and share their own knowledge and skill with the clients . |
| 11 | The only clearly distinctive point that the Opposition have made about convergence is : ’ Labour 's supply-side policies are the policies necessary for real convergence . ’ |
| 12 | Among the manifestations of these attitudes are the statements of some defendants in rape trials , which may show an indifference towards the wishes of women , or a belief that the wearing of attractive clothes or an invitation to coffee is a sure sign of willingness to engage in sex ; and the attitudes of some police-officers in the early 1980s , influenced by any one of a number of assumptions about the prevalence of false complaints of rape , about the ‘ typical ’ rape as an attack by a stranger , about the presence of injuries or bruises in ‘ genuine ’ rapes , and so forth . |
| 13 | Bots are the larvae of a fly . |
| 14 | Legally , the shareholders are the owners of the company and the directors are elected to run it on their behalf . |
| 15 | Legally , the shareholders are the owners of the company and the directors are elected to run it on their behalf . |
| 16 | The greatest consumers of fruit and vegetables are the Italians , French and Swiss . |
| 17 | These projects are the sorts of things which Friends of other Gardens , particularly American , undertake in co-operation with their Libraries . |
| 18 | Instead , in a $52 billion-a-year industry obsessed with appearances , some companies seem to think that ‘ creativity ’ and ‘ style ’ rather than hard-headed business strategies are the keys to success . |
| 19 | Your fingers are the stars |
| 20 | Since mental phenomena are the objects of inner perception , ‘ it is obvious that no mental phenomenon is perceived by more than one individual ’ . |
| 21 | In England , the competent authorities are the Masters of the Queen 's Bench Division , who make orders appointing examiners , almost always barristers , to take the testimony . |
| 22 | The aim should be to recognize that parents are consumers as well as clients and their schools and local authorities are the agents for implementing a closely knit policy of collaboration . |
| 23 | These hollow spindles are the fibres which take the loads and provide the strength . |
| 24 | Thus the word gladness has a structure consisting of two elements whose exponents are the morphemes glad and ness , but these morphemes can not be further analysed grammatically . |
| 25 | If I ruled the world everyone would sing and shout , war and bombs are the things I would throw out . |
| 26 | Vital common features of the two forms are the signatures required on them to establish their validity for implementation . |
| 27 | Underlying such forms are the facts of the existence of other people and of their movement through time as well as space . |
| 28 | Their elegant and economical forms are the solutions to innumerable puzzles of how to plan and build animals and plants ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 29 | Between the continents are the oceans . |
| 30 | And the signs are the journeys will made without liquid refreshment . |