Example sentences of "[vb pp] are a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common experiences in the two years before a cancer is diagnosed are a significant loss or a sense of meaninglessness in the whole process of living . |
| 2 | And they point out that the applications being checked are a tiny percentage of the 340,000 dealt with this year . |
| 3 | Included are a Georgian manor with swimming pool near Cambridge , a 17th Century inn with solarium at Chelmarsh , Shropshire , and a former 19th Century vicarage in Berwick-upon-Tweed , Northumberland . |
| 4 | Also included are a large green enamelled blue-ground saucer dish , Kangxi marks and of the period ( est. £25–35,000 ; $45–60,000 ) and a pair of yellow and blue dragon bowls of the same period ( est. £15–25,000 ; $25–45,000 ) . |
| 5 | Business cards on which company information can be added are a growing aspect of the Ravenhill Business Park operation . |
| 6 | Omitted are a whole host of major industries where the dominant pattern is less readily discernible . |
| 7 | Also promised are a new edition by Raniero Gnoli and Attilia Sironi of the monk Agostino dal Riccio 's Istoria delle pietre , a sixteenth-century treatise on the classification and working of the stones used in Renaissance Florence , and an exhaustive monograph by Giancarlo Ferraris — edited by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios — on Pietro Piffetti , a highly-skilled eighteenth-century cabinet maker in the service of the House of Savoy ( L250,000 ) . |
| 8 | Amongst the artifacts recorded are a plain bronze pin and a jewelled pin . |
| 9 | It 's easily assembled ; the only other tools required are a junior hacksaw blade and a pair of scissors . |