Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore essential to know which drains are the householder 's responsibility , even if they run across someone else 's land ; and which private sewers are ‘ shared ’ , and the point at which the local authority public sewer becomes responsible . |
| 2 | The secret of the system is a central reaction whose products are the system 's constituents . |
| 3 | These birds are the owl 's potential prey , and they will fly around it , sometimes even peck at it , to disturb it and drive it away . |
| 4 | These groups are the boys ' gangs that flourish most conspicuously in the ‘ delinquent neighbourhoods ’ of our large American cities . |
| 5 | You know like th if you look at someone and they always say your eyes are the souls o yo , like your soul are n't they ? |
| 6 | The knees are a bit erm |
| 7 | Copies donated by Alfred Munnings of three of his pictures are the King 's charger ‘ Delhi ’ , a Friesian bull and an equestrian portrait of King Edward VIII as Prince of Wales which later hung in the Paris apartment of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor . |
| 8 | Snow White 's cottage at the far end is , in actual fact , the club house and the two giant toadstools are the players ' dressing rooms . |
| 9 | As well as the transformation of the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes into real parks , as opposed to an ‘ arid waste covered by trees ’ ( the words were the Emperor 's ) , an attempt was made to endow all the areas of the city with small squares , which were in essence miniature parks ranging in size from one-quarter of an acre to six acres . |
| 10 | The best large cars were the Audi 80E , the Saab 900 , the VW Passat CL , and the Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 11 | The most notable of these defectors were the king 's half-brother the Earl of Rent , the Earl of Richmond and the Bishops of Hereford , Winchester and Norwich . |
| 12 | At that time , the mullahs were the country 's principal teachers and in many rural areas they had become considerable men of property , taxing the people and buying land for themselves . |
| 13 | TelecomAsia Corp Public Co Ltd , which is installing 2m telephone lines in Bangkok and its suburbs , will offer 222m shares to the public by October this year.The company plans to apply for the public offering with the Thai Securities & Exchange Commission ; Salomon Brothers is the firm 's foreign underwriter . |
| 14 | Among the indicators is the Treasury 's monthly monetary report which said yesterday that there were many encouraging trends in the economy , but in some cases figures were weaker than before . |
| 15 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning : Politeness is the paparazzo 's passport Serena Allott talks to celeb-snapper Richard Young |
| 16 | One of the spadefoot 's most remarkable adaptations is the tadpole 's ability to change both its appearance and behaviour to become a cannibal . |
| 17 | What brought tears of laughter to many eyes was the Irishman 's misinterpretation of Dad 's words . |
| 18 | Also among the winners was the country 's King Juan Carlos . |
| 19 | Prominent among the defectors was the party 's co-chairman , Park Tae Joon , who announced his resignation on Oct. 10 . |
| 20 | However , opinions , omissions and errors are the author 's alone . |
| 21 | The recipients are the party 's living history . |
| 22 | Many developing nations argue that since the industrialized countries are the world 's main polluters , they should pay for improvements in the global environment ; and since they are rich , they should pay for the transfers of technology necessary for the developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions , stop deforestation and carry out other changes . |
| 23 | ‘ My experience is that hackers are the world 's innocents — they can so easily be manipulated , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Because the bills are the forfaiter 's only security , the bills will require to be endorsed or otherwise guaranteed by an acceptable bank , unless the buyer is of undoubted financial standing . |
| 25 | Rate bills are the occupier 's responsibility , or , in the case of vacant property , the person entitled to occupation . |
| 26 | Stick legs in dirty grey stockings protruded from where the breeches finished and the cracked shoes were a woman 's shape . |
| 27 | ( 1 ) The defendants were the plaintiff 's agents for the sale of Caliban and as such owed him contractual and fiduciary duties to disclose to him all material matters concerning the sale so that he would be able to make an informed judgment as to what price to accept for Caliban. ( 2 ) The defendants were also under a fiduciary duty not to put themselves in a position where their duties to the plaintiff were in conflict with their own interests or those of any other of their clients . |
| 28 | The Cistercians were the papacy 's missionary storm-troops of the twelfth to thirteenth century as the Jesuits were to become at the time of the counter-Reformation . |
| 29 | On top of the crosses were a soldier 's Balmoral and the badge of the Gordon Highlanders . |
| 30 | Making forecasts in this and other areas is the actuary 's stock-in-trade for the profession is essentially concerned with what may happen in the future rather than balancing the books of the past . |