Example sentences of "[noun pl] be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The younger acts are the major problem in the music industry . |
| 2 | Is he also aware that human skills are the major determinant of success or failure ? |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Before arriving in New York , Robbie stops off in the Catskill Mountains where the clubs are the traditional breeding ground for Jewish comics . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Such reactions are the normal response to any foreign material and an essential protection against invasive microbes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Activities are the specific behaviour that leads towards achieving objectives . |
| 9 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These forms are the only way nominations can be accepted . |
| 12 | The patient quickly concludes that tablets are the real treatment and the diet of secondary importance . |
| 13 | a control circuit , whose inputs are the required setting and the actual setting . |
| 14 | Carboniferous Coal Measures ' coals are the established gas source in the Southern North Sea ( see Eames 1975 and van Wijhe et al . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Police powers to control public meetings and the offences that might be committed at such meetings are the principal subject of this book . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The woods are the main refuge of birds such as the capercaillie , crested tit and the Scottish crossbill . |
| 20 | Suggesting that spiritual values are the only solution . |
| 21 | Rich pinks are the main emphasis in early August , but earlier in the year blue delphiniums predominate . |
| 22 | Module headers are the sole source of information about a LIFESPAN module , so that : |
| 23 | Module headers are the key feature of LIFESPAN operation and the only direct requirement placed on the software it stores . |
| 24 | These internal norms are the special property of the community itself , and they are not evident to the outside observer ; therefore , to find out what they are , we must investigate the communities in depth and at a fine-grained level of detail . |
| 25 | ‘ Emigrants are the chief cargo on this ship . |
| 26 | Molecules are the natural language of the cell . |
| 27 | Individual molecules are the fundamental decision-making elements in the brain … the function of the neuron 's to allow the elements to communicate with one another . |
| 28 | To feed them on food which does them no good at all even though they like the taste would be irresponsible on waters where carp baits are the major part of the fish 's diet . |
| 29 | Sometimes a group gets stuck in the formal stage , convinced that formality and rules are the only antidote to chaos . |
| 30 | Spokesman Andrew Andersz said : ‘ Our sales have been encouraging , but our exports are the only reason we are working at full capacity . |