Example sentences of "[noun] be a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following projects are a few examples of those that exist around the country . |
| 2 | Golden-leaved marjoram , yellow-variegated lemon balm , white-variegated pineapple mint , purple-leaved sage , blue rue , the filmy leaves of bronze fennel , and the pink , purple and blue , leaf-like bracts of clary are a few herbs of this kind . |
| 3 | And the houses are a thousand pounds each . |
| 4 | Laurels , aucubas and different colours of conifers are a few suggestions . |
| 5 | The people who care for these snakes are very clever at milking them and getting the venom from the animal safely , and this is then purified biochemically and erm sent to us as a dried product in a stoppered bottle and the snakes are a thousand miles away , I 'm glad to say . |
| 6 | The most attractive race on the card is a 631 metres event which sees McDermott 's improving young stayer Too Fast , running off scratch , giving 15 metres start to top marker Baron Again and 11 metres to Lee Anns Tramp . |
| 7 | Pyrenees is a mild cows ' milk cheese , usually in a distinctive thin black rind . |
| 8 | The other important ingredient is a huge fireworks display . |
| 9 | He is desperate to receive fan mail at the following address : Please do not enclose an SAE for a reply as Old Fishfinger 's dictionary is a few letters short of an alphabet . |
| 10 | The head is made , erm , the tail , all the bits are made and eventually they , they all stick together like a kind of Lego , and the result is a new bacteria is made and this goes on until eventually the cell , there are so many inside the cell , that erm the cell just ruptures , when there 're about two hundred or so , the cell is now bulging with T four bacteria , it ruptures and releases a whole blob of new ones to start the cycle all over again . |
| 11 | The result is a mid-engined sports racing car for the road that borrows its styling from the Pininfarina Mythos . |
| 12 | Focusing on revenue is a thousand times more positive and productive than focusing on costs , which can prove debilitating and negative . |
| 13 | The Shippers Club is a vital communications link for the airline , helping it to monitor requirements such as the spread of capacity geographically . |
| 14 | The only direct route for supporters is a 24 hours sail from Plymouth — but yesterday Brittany Ferries said : ‘ We do n't accept soccer fans . ’ |
| 15 | Col. Sutherland is a Special Forces veteran who enjoyed a distinguished career . |
| 16 | Lulu and the Flying Babies by Posy Simmonds MARY ROBSON ( mother of Leo , 4 ) Matilda by Roald Dahl ( Puffin , £3.50 ; Cape , £8.50 ) Winner of Children 's Book Of The Year award 1989 There 's no mystery why Roald Dahl is a best-selling children 's author . |
| 17 | One of the most advanced applications of expert systems to DSS and GIS is a hazardous substances and industrial risk management system ( IRIMS — Ispra Risk Management Support System ) developed at IIASA in conjunction with the Joint Research Centre of the Commission of the European Communities at Ispra , Italy ( Fedra et al. 1987 ; Fedra 1986 ) . |
| 18 | HARINGEY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER |
| 19 | Low maintenance is an important criteria in many modern gardens and this planting combines ground cover with taller shrub material . |
| 20 | He told me that in my back bedroom was a sensational sports story of sex , drugs and liniment . |
| 21 | The result was a threatened players ' strike in 1909 , which led the authorities to re-recognize the union . |
| 22 | His own car was a few yards ahead , and he could be in and started before they turned the corner — but not out of sight . |
| 23 | The last I saw of Angy was a few minutes after the class ended . |
| 24 | I barely remembered my uncle , as he had been killed rock-climbing when Dickie was a few months old . |
| 25 | And the same thing applies posts are a hundred metres apart . |
| 26 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 27 | They only buy them from discount houses , and then only after the bills are a few weeks old . |
| 28 | Dominating Glen Shiel is the Western Highlands , the steep , shapely mountains are a popular hillwalkers ' target — a long , demanding route , worthy of some respect . |
| 29 | Two huge human feet were a few inches away from them . |
| 30 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |