Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But lions are a different matter . |
| 2 | Tenants on the other hand believe that the Acts are a necessary protection against the exploitation of people who do not own the freehold or long leases of their homes . |
| 3 | We also believe that bad debts are a major issue for those leasing to the small and medium-sized customers . ’ |
| 4 | Motocross riders are a tough breed … no amount of fog was going to stop them from checking out the sport 's newest circuit this morning . |
| 5 | Contemporary objects are a significant part of that collection . |
| 6 | Financial accounts must be produced , cost accounts are almost essential for survival , and management accounts are a key ingredient to safe expansion . |
| 7 | And , he adds , reports and accounts are a useful publicity tool . |
| 8 | Colliery accounts are a neglected source yet they contain a mass of information on capital investment , costs of production , productivity and profits , with the most detailed of them providing information on individual colliers , output for man/shift , number of days worked , wage rates and earnings . |
| 9 | The answer might seem to be that experience tells us that nation states are a key fact of the current world and that they plainly do often behave in a self-interested way . |
| 10 | However , it is widely known that only a small proportion of such qualifying mergers are referred , and further that vertical mergers are a small proportion of the total . |
| 11 | Youth unemployment has since the mid-1970s been a central fact or a central fear of many young people , and has affected many others . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's proved that he is capable of scoring goals and although he can improve on the defensive side of his game his passing skills are a tremendous asset . ’ |
| 13 | Knowledge and skills are a valuable source of power that we can build on and develop . |
| 14 | Their movement rate is greater and their weapon and bow skills are a full point better than most humans . |
| 15 | This chapter illustrates some attractors : these static illustrations are a poor substitute for watching the trajectories approach and then wind around the attractor , and for following the sequence of bifurcations ( changes in type of attractor ) as a parameter is changed . |
| 16 | LIFE insurance endowment policies are a great way to build up a family nest egg for the future . |
| 17 | As we shall see , local economic policies are a good case in point . |
| 18 | It is clear that certain policies have a limited call upon union expenditure , while other policies are a heavy burden upon expenditure . |
| 19 | The reduction in interest broadly matched the increase in tax paid between the two years , so the net movement of funds from operations are a critical parameter for whether we 're really generating cash for new initiatives , significantly better at forty five point six million and this this excludes the proceeds of fixed asset disposals , so all in all we had pretty nearly sixty million cash free and clear . |
| 20 | Such attitudes are a striking reflection of the idealistic and libertarian aspects of the Enlightenment . |
| 21 | Like good weather , buy-outs are a desirable thing . |
| 22 | With the coins are a remarkable group of silver spoons in a variety of forms , some marked with the Christian Chi-ro symbol . |
| 23 | ‘ She takes her golf very seriously ; she told me her clubs are a matched set and I imagine they 're worth quite a lot of money . |
| 24 | Oranges and other citrus fruits and fresh vegetables are a ready source of vitamin C , although it is easily lost in the process of preparation and cooking . |
| 25 | Where domination strategies are a pervasive feature of the culture of teaching in a school , pupils can be remorseless in their expectations that teachers conform to the ‘ normal ’ pattern and can exercise powerful sanctions of disobedience and disruption against those who allow reason or consideration of personal concern to show through , against those who seem to show manifest signs of weakness or softness , that is . |
| 26 | Family outings on bikes are a good way to make the best of summer days . |
| 27 | Punitive damages in libel cases are a legal anomaly . |
| 28 | Such cases are a common cause of apparent failure of the zeugma-test ( often called the ‘ pun-test ’ ) or the identity test . |
| 29 | Arab-Americans are a national resource that needs to be utilised . ’ |
| 30 | But these reactions are a later development when anger has begun to take the system over and commandeer all its ways of expressing displeasure . |