Example sentences of "[noun pl] be a [adj] [noun] " 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 ‘ The Germans are a great people , a very great people ’ , declared de Gaulle at Stalingrad .
16 The Germans are a peaceful people , but they have a right to live , and to live as Germans , and they are convinced of the fact that they have a mission for all the nations of the earth ; if one hinders them from fulfilling their mission then they have the right to use force .
17 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 .
18 Russians are a Christian people — the millennium of the Orthodox church was celebrated in 1988 — speaking an East Slavic language , and they have represented the core of the Russian or Soviet state since early medieval times .
19 LIFE insurance endowment policies are a great way to build up a family nest egg for the future .
20 As we shall see , local economic policies are a good case in point .
21 It is clear that certain policies have a limited call upon union expenditure , while other policies are a heavy burden upon expenditure .
22 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 .
23 Such attitudes are a striking reflection of the idealistic and libertarian aspects of the Enlightenment .
24 Like good weather , buy-outs are a desirable thing .
25 With the coins are a remarkable group of silver spoons in a variety of forms , some marked with the Christian Chi-ro symbol .
26 ‘ 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 .
27 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 .
28 The following projects are a few examples of those that exist around the country .
29 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 .
30 Family outings on bikes are a good way to make the best of summer days .
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