Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was assumed that a number of serving ministers from Hun Sen 's Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP , the new name chosen in October by what had been the Khmer People 's Revolutionary Party or KPRP ) would resign to make way for representatives of the monarchist Funcinpec Party led by Sihanouk 's son Norodom Ranaridh . |
| 2 | Other species often found are the eyelash begonia ( B. boweri ) , the iron cross begonia ( B. masoniana ) , and hybrids like B. ‘ Tiger ’ and B. ‘ Cleopatra ’ . |
| 3 | The estimated equations of the two FT-SE 100 index futures contracts studied were as follows : where the figures in brackets are the t -statistics , and an asterisk denotes significance at the 1% level . |
| 4 | The estimated regression equations for the two FTSE 100 index futures contracts studied were as follows : where the figures in brackets are the t -statistics , and an asterisk denotes significance at the 1% level . |
| 5 | ‘ These are the theatre people ? ’ |
| 6 | Going for gold in the world rowing championships are the Henley pair of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent … they 've been cruising thro the early heats … |
| 7 | Flounder are the principle species taken from this shallow venue although bass , eels , pout , rockling , plaice and the odd cod do show . |
| 8 | ‘ Here are the night staff 's notes on Monsieur Brückner . |
| 9 | These are the things people get very confused about . |
| 10 | Birsay folk are always considered very broad and so are the Harray folk . |
| 11 | They demonstrate how the integration of cost and effectiveness insights within ‘ value for money ’ and ‘ efficiency ’ reviews has revealed how poor are the costs data ‘ lovingly tended by local authority accountants over many years ’ and how limiting are the so-called effectiveness data . |
| 12 | They are the nursing staff , who not only comfort but also empty the bed pans , wash bed sores , clean up the vomiting , often for an NHS wage which would n't keep Her Royal Highness in French blue mascara . |
| 13 | Are the finance people running your life for you ? |
| 14 | Well , undergraduates getting very , very drunk and , you know , throwing up and leaving pools of vomit around for staff to clear up the next day erm , you know , one might say well are the college staff the victim of that . |
| 15 | Perhaps a common expression of this are the preparations people undertake when they are about to go on a trip . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell me , just what is it like growing up knowing you 're the bastard offspring of a criminal ? |
| 17 | Kestrels are popular with audiences at lectures , because they 're elegant little birds and also because , of all the British birds of prey , they 're the ones people are most likely to spot in the wild : they hover over motorways and are even seen in towns these days . |
| 18 | ‘ We are a Pacific people , ’ I heard said on many occasions , ‘ and we are proud . ’ |
| 19 | One of my colonies of mushroom polyps , reddish brown specimens which I think are a Ricordea species , killed a bushy sea whip ( Plexaurelia ) which happened to be so close as to come into contact , when it deflated . |
| 20 | Carp are a cult fish . |
| 21 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 22 | We are an Easter people redeemed and made whole by the life and death of Jesus Christ working through all our learning and all our experiences in the search for a kingdom of love and salvation . |
| 23 | We are an understanding people . ’ |
| 24 | They are an earth people and their legend is horrific , dramatic , almost senseless . |
| 25 | Among his main challengers will be the Swansea pair of Nigel Adams and Jerry Hall , Blackpool 's Paul Muller and Telford 's Mark Flint . |
| 26 | If the staff number was entered , the first screen displayed would be the Personnel Data screen . |
| 27 | On US television , it may be the crime series subgenre which comes closest to naturalist verisimilitude , and certainly the eighties generation of Hill Street Blues and Cagney and Lacey ( 1981–8 ) seemed to resemble more closely what people believe to be true than the more apparently formulaic structures of Kojak ( 1973–7 ) , Starksy and Hutch ( 1975–80 ) and Charlie 's Angels ( 1976–81 ) or the more obviously cinematic forms of Dragnet ( 1951–8 ) . |
| 28 | The industrial writers on the nationals and relevant trade and technical press would be the target media here . |
| 29 | ‘ But we said there would be no warrant sales and there have been none to our knowledge . ’ |
| 30 | As a rule of thumb , when d s get down much below 0.05 , we can regard them as so small that they might just be a sampling fluke ; we will conclude that for all practical purposes there is no effect of one variable upon another , and erase arrows with very small path coefficients from our model . |