Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] [be] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | Local authorities now have four main sources of funds for capital expenditure : borrowing , which is subject to approval by central government ; capital grants , also from central government , which will specify the purposes for which they are to be used , and the amount the local authority must itself contribute ; capital receipts , from the sale of assets such as land and council houses , though the local authorities must first set aside 50% of these receipts ( 75% in the case of council house sales ) towards repaying their debts ; and ordinary revenue from the Community Charge , etc. , for which the government assumes the local authorities to be accountable to their voters ( CIPFA , 1990 , Chapter 20.3 ; HM Treasury , 1990 , Chapter 21 , Paras . |
2 | He eventually managed to secure some work in the form of a commission from a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company at Mannheim , an amateur flautist , to compose ‘ three short , simple concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute ’ ( 10 December 1777 ) , for which he was to be paid 200 gulden . |
3 | In 1888 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects , and also the Art Workers ' Guild , of which he was to be an enthusiastic and devoted member , and which provided his main circle of friends ; he was elected master of the guild for the year 1903 . |
4 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
5 | She left Queen 's in 1850 and it was in that year that she founded the school of which she was to be head for forty years , the North London Collegiate School for Ladies , which opened in the Buss Camden Street house on 4 April 1850 with thirty-five pupils . |
6 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
7 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
8 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
9 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
10 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
11 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
12 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |
13 | And then the dark-greens are by no means united in forming a simple statement of what it is to be an out-and-out green . |
14 | This is not the basis of the Catholic position which is instead concerned with the nature of what it is to be a priest . |
15 | Not more of the same — a narrowing down of what it is to be British , and a belief that to promote good race relations you have to keep black people out . |
16 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
17 | Nor is sharing or giving help a route to dominance ; it is merely what is expected , part of the minimal definition of what it is to be a member of a Semai community ( see Robarchek 1986a ; see Dentan 1968 : 134 for a discussion of implications of the distinction between reciprocity and sharing ) . |
18 | Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian , to have faith , to encounter God . |
19 | What needs to be emphasised , though , is that direct experience — becoming part of a way of life that includes the alien in a wider definition of what it is to be human — seems to be almost the only way of achieving demystification . |
20 | This widening definition of what it is to be human , couched in sociologically aware terms , runs throughout the responses , and is further expressed in attitudes to amniocentesis and abortion in subsequent pregnancies . |
21 | No longer a matter of distribution across a norm , of statistics and probability , ‘ normality ’ itself is simply a common-sense , inclusive definition of what it is to be human , with wider boundaries redefined from experience . |
22 | Lévi-Strauss ' point here , however , is simply the objection that Sartre defines ‘ man ’ in advance , predetermined by the particular experience of what it is to be a man in twentieth-century post-war French society . |
23 | The most striking feature of pupil descriptions of what it is to be a good teacher is the great emphasis placed on interpersonal respect . |
24 | False claims to universality have been used to cover a persistent warping in our notions of what it is to be an individual . |
25 | But part , I would suggest , is to be found in the conception that teachers have of what it is to be a teacher and that , in turn , depends on what they believe about the way in which children learn . |
26 | inadequately educated persons er , view of what it is to be well educated i.e. we 've got to comment on the spelling as if it were important |
27 | In the twilight groves and dusty caves there is no sign of what it is to be alive : nothing of love , valour or artistry . |
28 | Somewhere deep down , your idea of what it is to be a person , to truly engage in the world , has become critically interfused with childish fantasy . |
29 | But this is artificially to restrict the sense of what it is to be a rational institution . |
30 | Until you have known it you will have no conception of what it is to be truly lonely . |