Example sentences of "[noun prp] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roads to the south of Swindon are the responsibility of the local authority — Wiltshire county council . |
| 2 | Swindon are the form team . |
| 3 | Like I said at the beginning , Rickenbacker do n't churn designs out lightly ; the Atlantis and Excalibur are the result of careful consideration , and if you 're looking for a guitar that 's not only brimming with personality but is eminently playable in just about any style , I 'd suggest you check this one out , fast … |
| 4 | Widnes and Fulham are the season 's first winners of the Stones Bitter Team of the Month awards . |
| 5 | from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for |
| 6 | January to March are the skiing months with temperatures averaging around 25°F — but these days it 's wise to check for snow first ! |
| 7 | Critics of the concept suggest that Yuppies are the figment of the imagination of media , agency and marketing people , looking at themselves in a mirror in their expensive homes in the capital city . |
| 8 | Dynamic , decisive , celebrating the market economy ( ‘ If the market demands change , all the obstacles people want to put up mean nothing , because whoever gets there first gets the business : it 's a very fast way of making things happen ’ ) , Hailes and Elkington are the antithesis of much that green has traditionally stood for . |
| 9 | In terms of production Mexico and Venezuela are the energy giants of Latin America . |
| 10 | Ironically his former club are competing with Middlesbrough for a play-off place but there can be no doubt that , despite the Kevin Keegan and Denis Smith events of recent months that Middlesbrough are the team of the moment . |
| 11 | Couzens , Smithard , Byrne , Oliver , Wharton and Tinkler are the youth team midfield . |
| 12 | Randalstown are the side everyone tipped for league glory . |
| 13 | U2 are the world 's most successful social democrats , the perfect spokesmen for the Live Aid era . |
| 14 | As far as PR 's concerned , the Newleys are the kiss of death . ’ |
| 15 | Also at Horstead Keynes are the carriage sheds where work is undertaken to restore coaching stock to working order . |
| 16 | Among other outstanding houses at Pompeii are the House of Menander , the House of Pansa and the House of the Vettii . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) A registered club may apply to the sheriff for any one of the following orders : ( a ) an order providing that during the winter period the permitted hours in the club on weekdays shall not be those set out in section 53(3) of this Act , but shall instead be the period between eleven in the morning and two in the afternoon and the period between four and half-past ten in the evening or alternatively be the said periods on weekdays other than Saturday , and on Saturday be the period between one in the afternoon and half-past ten in the evening ; or ( b ) an order providing that during the winter period the permitted hours in the club on Sundays shall not be those set out in the said section 53(3) , but shall instead be the period between half-past twelve and two in the afternoon and the period between four and nine in the evening ; or ( c ) an order which contains both the aforesaid provisions ; and the sheriff shall , if in his opinion the conditions set out in subsection ( 2 ) below are satisfied , make the order applied for . |
| 18 | So he set the play in a hotel room , and Frank and Betty Spencer were the honeymoon couple who booked in . |
| 19 | Battle of Britain Air Display , RAF Finningley , September 19 Dominating the aircraft at Finningley were the F-18 Hornets of the US Navy Blue Angels team . |
| 20 | Harry and David were the Brigade 's first horses but , soon after his arrival , David fell going down the Hill to Haversham , and was returned to Euston . |
| 21 | Next to the Clements were the Slark family , then the Burtons , after which came the entrance to Garden Cottages . |
| 22 | Sidonius Apollinaris ' lines et te Massiliensium per hortos sacri stipitis , Arbiter , colonum ( Carmen 23. 155–6 ) " You , Petronius , who in the gardens of Marseilles were the worshipper of the sacred tree-stock " are given as evidence for the Massaliote origins of Petronius . |
| 23 | In general , the reform programme originated in the thought of the upper middle class of socially concerned professional people , of whom Beveridge and Keynes were the patron saints . |
| 24 | Thus the naval bombardment , which had , in fact , opened the way to Constantinople were the attack pressed home , served only to alert the Turks and their German ally to their peril in this area . |
| 25 | The ancient Egyptian Trinity was named Osiris-Isis-Horus , and in the Christian faith Father-Mother ( Holy Ghost ) -Son ; Jesus of Nazareth being the destroyer ( of ignorance ) . |
| 26 | Punning is the occult logic of language best left aside by those concerned to grasp its evolution . |
| 27 | Choppy Spencer is the spokesperson for the Conservatives on education , and Bob Morgan represents the Liberal Democrats . |
| 28 | These are compared and the results used to assess the extent of the total user population ( N ) according to the formula N = Nl x N2/X , where Nl is the number of users identified by first sample , N2 is the number of users identified by second sample , and X is the number of users in N2 previously identified by Nl . |
| 29 | Inevitably Gen Aoun is the culprit as far as Syria is concerned . |
| 30 | Inevitably Gen Aoun is the culprit as far as Syria is concerned . |