Example sentences of "[noun pl] are the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MMITs are the building blocks for microwave systems used in satellite TV dishes and cellular radio systems . |
| 2 | For his purposes data sheets are ideal and standard tests laid down by the national standards institutions are the methods that he uses . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such institutions are the envy of many Arab countries for they reflect a commitment to national identity that one will seek in vain in most parts of the Arab world . |
| 5 | sure that 's right but I mean I think the beginners are the people coming in new to the bis |
| 6 | For Mr information the vacancies are the difference between the number of beds we maintain and the number of residence we have . |
| 7 | Most burglaries are the work of petty thieves on the look our for an easy opportunity . |
| 8 | Of the four remaining switches , Soft Clipping takes some of the harsh overtones out of the sound while H.F. Distortion does the opposite ; screaming harmonics are the order of the day here . |
| 9 | These magnitudes are the outcomes of hypothetical thought experiments on the part of firms . |
| 10 | Alongside the notes are the kind of broad historical questions that you need to learn to ask about any topic and which have generated the headings . |
| 11 | These habitual acts are the rituals of sanity . |
| 12 | The Jovian satellites are the subject of section 9.4 . |
| 13 | The best reasons are the objectivity and credibility of an independent audit . |
| 14 | I do n't even mind ( much ) that these reasons are the cause , in one case , of a 78 per cent difference in the price advertised . |
| 15 | The gems are the TV channels . |
| 16 | Much more popular with the prisoners are the range of Vocational Training Courses ( VTC ) which take men for a period of 20 or 26 weeks , give them a thorough training in a particular skill and enable them to take outside examinations . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The sculpted figures of mineworkers with their lamps are the work of M. B. Braun from 1721–5 and are a salient reminder that without the silver mines of Jihlava and Kutná Hora royal patronage of the arts would not have been possible . |
| 19 | However , while the cases where multi-ethnic and multi-communal states have fractured , or are close to breaking , naturally attract most attention — the partition of the Indian sub- continent in 1947 , the splitting of Pakistan , the demands for Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka — it should never be forgotten that these are special cases in a world where multi-ethnic and multi- communal states are the norm . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the same way that matter is constituted of fundamental particles , antiparticles are the building blocks of antimatter . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Superb numerical skills are the foundation of her business acumen , blended with well-structured organisational and time management techniques . |
| 25 | Skills are the residues of learning . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Well shapers are the people that say this way chaps , you know , no no |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | But far from being logically and mechanically derived from the ‘ needs ’ of capitalist accumulation , state policies are the outcome of very complex and contradictory processes . |
| 30 | The claims for regional policy , however , should not be pressed too far to avoid giving the impression that regional policies are the answer to the country 's current need for more jobs . |