Example sentences of "[noun] [be] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The younger acts are the major problem in the music industry . |
| 2 | The profit positions for the writers of options at the point of expiry are the exact opposite of those for the purchasers . |
| 3 | ( Critics argue that the most obvious signs of this freedom are the huge pay rises awarded by the directors of many privatised companies to themselves . |
| 4 | But manager Maurice Setters knows his side have a struggle to qualify from a tough section — Germany are the other team in five-nation group three . |
| 5 | Is he also aware that human skills are the major determinant of success or failure ? |
| 6 | This interdependence was not simply the outcome of company imposition : had direct compulsion by the employers been the crucial mechanism , political quiescence would probably not have resulted , as illustrated by the resistance of Kent miners to buttyism ( Goffer , 1977 ) and that of Doncaster area miners to village stratagems ( Gibbon , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | Before arriving in New York , Robbie stops off in the Catskill Mountains where the clubs are the traditional breeding ground for Jewish comics . |
| 8 | And although Siegel 's results demonstrate convincingly that response strategies can indeed transfer from one discrimination to another , they can not show that such strategies are the sole source of the transfer effects seen in his experiment . |
| 9 | Such reactions are the normal response to any foreign material and an essential protection against invasive microbes . |
| 10 | If ministerial responsibility were more than the mere shadow of a name , the matter would be less important , but as it is , the Courts are the only defence of the liberty of the subject against departmental aggression . |
| 11 | Activities are the specific behaviour that leads towards achieving objectives . |
| 12 | Barrow are the only club still without a point . |
| 13 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 14 | In the Shadow Cabinet and on the National Executive , Smith now has people who recognise their real opponents are the Tory Party , not the people sitting around the same table . |
| 15 | These forms are the only way nominations can be accepted . |
| 16 | But they have also beaten the Redskins 8–4 and 9–6 at Riverside and Chelmsford are the fancied side , so long as their imports play well and the youngsters give their all . |
| 17 | Legislation might be defined as the making of general rules to govern future conduct ; under this definition , Public Acts of Parliament are the central case of legislation . |
| 18 | Mr Chalmers said in Glasgow : ‘ The only political parties who are not prepared to sit down and talk about the recall of a Scottish parliament are the Tory party and the Labour Party . |
| 19 | The patient quickly concludes that tablets are the real treatment and the diet of secondary importance . |
| 20 | Clydebank are the only side in the top three at home tomorrow , they meet Dumbarton , while Airdrie are at Hamilton and Falkirk travel to Stirling Albion . |
| 21 | Clydebank are the only side in the top three at home tomorrow , they meet Dumbarton , while Airdrie are at Hamilton and Falkirk travel to Stirling Albion . |
| 22 | D Vincent of Glastonbury and Stefan Ellis of Pontcanna , Cardiff are the fortunate duo soon to receive a 65 litre Profile 2 rucksack retailing for £140 . |
| 23 | a control circuit , whose inputs are the required setting and the actual setting . |
| 24 | Another kind of support are the various care attendant schemes coming into operation . |
| 25 | Carboniferous Coal Measures ' coals are the established gas source in the Southern North Sea ( see Eames 1975 and van Wijhe et al . |
| 26 | Coal Measures ’ coals are the accepted gas source , the highest frequency of which occur in the Westphalian A and B sequences of the Lower and Middle Coal Measures . |
| 27 | Police powers to control public meetings and the offences that might be committed at such meetings are the principal subject of this book . |
| 28 | TORY REFORM GROUP TRG meetings are the traditional shop-window where aspiring Party Leaders display their wares : A Fourth Term — Why Re-elect the Tories ? |
| 29 | Housing estates are the modern monument of municipalism , more typically than the new civic centres and town halls , and yet they often look improvised or makeshift , as temporary as if they were plains of prefabs . |
| 30 | Fig. 15 Goldfish are the obvious choice when stocking a new pool . |