Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peat and silt are rich soils on which farmers obtain high yields without using as much expensive artificial fertiliser as elsewhere . |
| 2 | Fossil Typhis are frequent fossils in the Eocene rocks of Europe . |
| 3 | Proposals to introduce mandatory re-entry programmes for nurses and health visitors linked to periodic relicensing are one way of maintaining a safe level of practice , and a logical step forward in promoting the importance of maintaining such safety . |
| 4 | This and the following chapter of Hymenoptera defence are much-needed surveys of the recent , complex analyses of defensive chemicals and their origins . |
| 5 | ‘ Five out of six people on the Greater Glasgow health board are card-carrying members of the Tory party . |
| 6 | Inside the case are two sets of possible mountings for the Spectrum 's PCB but only one clears the keyboard so that was easy to solve . |
| 7 | Both the Forum for Citizens ' Television and the Japan Lutheran Hour are corporate members of WACC . |
| 8 | Health needs and health care provision are fundamental matters in all societies and an interest in community needs often uncovers some health issues . |
| 9 | The manager and chairman are such strangers to national television that probably less than 10 per cent of football fans would be able to name them , let alone recognise them . |
| 10 | For the Holy Spirit and hope are two sides of the same coin ; respectively the objective and the subjective modes in which the future is made real to us in the present . |
| 11 | Poverty and the absence of hope are real causes for anti-social behaviour . |
| 12 | Cyprio are great believers in the power of foam as a biological media . |
| 13 | The depth of the North-South divide , its precise definition , and directions of change are key issues for this volume . |
| 14 | Here again there has been very little systematic exploration , although such universal features of the organization of interaction are good candidates for potentially important functional pressures on linguistic structure . |
| 15 | When the Data Protection Committee came to consider the case for legislation it had no doubt that the public sector presented the greater set of problems : the complex modern government bureaucracies at national and local level are great consumers of personal information about citizens — mostly to the citizens ' benefit , of course , but some of the possibilities of linkage , network-formation and hence secret profile-building about identifiable individuals seemed frightening . |
| 16 | N. Perry 's Black Opal or N. Perry 's Red Star and N. Irene Heritage are real beauties among the reds and should be available soon . |
| 17 | Two dangers of the purchaser-provider split are that collaboration among health care professionals may be undermined and the provider aspects of the public health role may become removed from the purchasing role . |
| 18 | Development and struggle are alien features in the Orientalist 's world . |
| 19 | Me and my Mum are fetching Dad from the airport . |
| 20 | In the cytoplasm are short pieces of RNA called TRANSFER RNA ( tRNA ) . |
| 21 | The arms of the saltire are each split into four triangular fields , and carry a variety of geometrical and floral motif . |
| 22 | When allegations that Schnur had worked for the Stasi for at least 20 years were first made on March 9 his denials were supported up by the West German government which said that he had on the contrary been passing information on political repression in East Germany to them . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ There are people going hungry , but the majority are genuine cases of people struggling to make ends meet . |
| 24 | Though urinary hydroxyproline and alkaline phosphatase are useful markers of bone resorption and synthesis , respectively , they are rather non-specific . |
| 25 | There have of course been innumerable discussions of developments within particular disciplines . |
| 26 | There has of course been some criticism in the books of the decision in Stilk v. Myrick which is somewhat differently reported in the two sets of reports , but Campbell 's reports have the better reputation and what I have referred to as being the law on this point is referred to as ‘ the present ’ rule in Chitty on Contracts : see , also , Cheshire and Fifoot . |
| 27 | Students on this course are full members of the Faculty 's degree programmes , enjoying the advantages of study and travel available in all other degree courses . |
| 28 | The ideal learning conditions for getting acquainted with the harness are flat water with a Force 2 to 3 onshore wind . |
| 29 | Nicholsons ' pubs for the most part are architectural gems in their own right and include The Blackfriar and The Argyll Arms in Central London and the Prince Alfred in Maida Vale amongst their number . |
| 30 | Afforestation and reforestation are both characteristic of modern forestry ( the former is the planting of forests on land previously unoccupied by trees while the latter involves the re-establishment of trees on formerly forested land that has been cleared ) . |