Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this marking and writing and reference back and forth between different textbooks and notes is the correct way to deal with impersonal communication of the kind that you encounter in your studies . |
| 2 | Additives and attitudes is the latest consumer focus report from The Leatherhead Food RA . |
| 3 | A professional cuckoo in the hybrid nest of lawyers , architects , engineers and surveyors was the ultimate beneficiary in a long story of disciplinary realignment . |
| 4 | The lanes , courts , streets , and roads were the same . |
| 5 | Sometimes a group gets stuck in the formal stage , convinced that formality and rules are the only antidote to chaos . |
| 6 | The imposition of goals and values is the critical element in a political relation and , as Fox ( 1974 ) reminds us , goals and values are in the mind . |
| 7 | Size , bill colour and calls are the best field marks . |
| 8 | Realizing the importance of schemas and scripts is the first step , but that in itself gets us nowhere unless we push on to consider how a manager can discover what schemas actually exist and , if they are inappropriate , how to change them . |
| 9 | Fruit and vegetables are the second most valuable item to South Africa 's economy and earned $119 million in 1987 — a fall of 5% on 1986 — reflecting the impact of consumer boycotts in the West . |
| 10 | For example , the root-indices for the words court and courts are the same . |
| 11 | Many of the reasons for widespread failure of conservation programmes and policies are the same as for failures in some other development programmes in lesser developed countries . |
| 12 | At first , the playing time for both discs and cylinders was the same — about two minutes — but the fact that discs could be made in different sizes , all of which could be played on the same machine , was another advantage . |
| 13 | A WINNING COMBINATION OF CHOCOLATE AND CHERRIES IS THE DARK SECRET BEHIND THIS WICKEDLY RICH CAKE . |
| 14 | The prison officer using his eyes and ears is the first security patrol . |
| 15 | Practitioners and clients are the best experts on their problems so researchers need to make a greater effort to learn from and listen to practice . |
| 16 | Some non-Goyigama villages near the coast , such as Magalkande , Indisgastuduva , and Pohoddaramulla , had reputations as centres of cattle stealing , but in the interior relatively wealthy persons and their poorer kin and clients were the main beneficiaries . |
| 17 | The free market principle and consumer sovereignty — that viewers and listeners are the best judges of their own interests and what they want to consume — are , therefore , the cornerstones of this particular approach to broadcasting . |
| 18 | Algae , mosses and lichens are the only plants . |
| 19 | Her only other fashion rule is always to make sure her shoes and tights are the same colour , making her 5ft 5 inches seem to stretch up just a little further . |
| 20 | In contrast , amidated gastrins were found in similar concentrations in tumour and normal tissue , and concentrations were the lowest of those recorded in the four assays . |
| 21 | Comparison and discrimination between children and schools is the essential motive for ranking children . |
| 22 | Their primary audiences may differ , as may some of their aims and , in consequence , their modes of analysis and communication , but quite a few of their findings and methods are the same , a fact which is all too often ignored , at least by ourselves — the consumers of our wares often make far less of a distinction . |
| 23 | They also provide evidence of the various sources of income of the strikers : spouses ' job and savings were the two most important sources ; tax rebates were an important source for both strikes , but supplementary benefit was insignificant for one strike because of their union 's practice of providing strike pay . |
| 24 | The largest single source of energy in most plants and animals is the tricarboxylic acid cycle ( TCA cycle ) . |
| 25 | Polyethylene doubles and inflatables are the only products not made in Japan but 55% of canoes and kayaks are still imported . |
| 26 | In many parts of the country , but particularly in the west , hamlets and farmsteads are the normal settlement pattern today , with the few villages mostly of post-medieval development . |
| 27 | ‘ G&L is restricted from using the Leo Fender name or likeness in advertisements and brochures … it must cease use of ‘ The Real One ’ and similar terms suggesting that G&L guitars and basses are the original or classic Leo Fender or Fender designs . |
| 28 | The total loss of these aircraft and crews was the bitterest blow Bomber Command had to suffer in the entire war , and it is difficult to understand why it happened . |
| 29 | So they grow up just assuming that whites are the goodies and blacks are the bad dies and pass the same stereotypes onto their children . |
| 30 | The specialization of farms and the mechanization of production have , however , vastly reduced the perquisites which farm workers receive — milk and potatoes are the only significant produce and by no means all farms find it convenient to make these and other small quantities of food available . |