Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [art] [noun] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 2 | And all I could think of was the way that baby had felt in my arms , and inside I was hating God for doing this to me . ’ |
| 3 | One of the myths Eleanor would speak against was the idea that socialists wanted to have women in common , and the men who made these accusations , she said , were the owners of the means of production anyway . |
| 4 | Where the confusion seems to stem from is the fact that guitar music sounds an octave lower than concert pitch . |
| 5 | I do think it 's a difficult one , but I do feel there is a limit to the number , and therefore we should be careful that the ones we agree to are the ones that interest local people . |
| 6 | In fact there appears to be no doubt that Stalin simply resented the independence that the Yugoslav leaders were displaying and believed they could be brought to heel as easily as communist leaders in other parts of Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | The most important of these is that there seems to be no evidence that people assumed automatic responsibility for their relatives — including parents — who were old , sick , or in some other circumstance where they were unable to work to maintain themselves . |
| 8 | Delivery times for most items were generally satisfactory , but there appears to be a possibility that readers consulting early or rare books in the South Reading Room have to wait a considerable time for items ordered over the lunchtime period . |
| 9 | It is not likely to be a coincidence that Guntram 's reign was marked by disagreements with his fellow rulers , and also by treason . |
| 10 | I took this medical test to be a sign that things were happening and that we could hope to go on to Paris , which Alex said was the next staging post . |
| 11 | But , if you want to be a success that s what you have to do . |
| 12 | There seems to be a feeling that labour supply ought to be very sensitive to taxation so that the disincentive effects of income taxation are large . |
| 13 | I was n't supposed to be a novelty that people come to look at , like we became in the Beatles . |
| 14 | There needs to be a recognition that appeals for aid must also have spin-off for the company concerned if the appeal is likely to succeed . |
| 15 | This was a house that cried out to be lived in , was perhaps intended to be the home that Ace had never had as a child . |
| 16 | This however proved to be the catalyst that Bowran needed to set up on his own . |
| 17 | Suppose , for the sake of argument , it happened to be the case that marriage weakened the power of a priest to influence his flock , say because it occupied a large proportion of his time and attention . |
| 18 | It used to be the case that games written for an 8086 processor were unplayable on a 286 machine , so developers included special code in their programs which would slow the game down to make sure that , as far as possible , the game played at the same speed on every class of machine . |
| 19 | However , even where a less rigid gender division of labour prevails , it seems to be the case that women commonly act as the ‘ kin keepers ’ , that is to say , the people who keep up regular contacts with members of the wider kin group . |
| 20 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 21 | It does seem to be the case that Fuchs was very poorly served by his finance director Cees List . |
| 22 | However , this example serves to emphasize how misleading it can be to assume that the breeding sex ratio necessarily reflects the extent to which male reproductive success varies for , even among closely related species , it is likely to be the case that males have substantially longer breeding lifespans in monogamous species than in polygynous ones ( see Wiley , 1974 ; Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 23 | It may also prove to be the case that failure to recognize this obsolescence sufficiently early also prevented the development potential of records of achievement being recognized . |
| 24 | However , it also seems to be the case that science is presented in schools as a body of uniform fact with no disagreement . |
| 25 | Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand . |
| 26 | It used to be the law that orders for certiorari and prohibition were available only against decision-makers who had a duty to act judicially . |
| 27 | These appear to be the assumptions that Musgrave had in mind : ‘ that the size distribution of income originating in various industries is the same [ or ] there is a random relationship between the distributional origin of expenditures on any particular product and the distributional destination of factor payments ’ ( Musgrave , et al. , 1964 , p. 201 ) . |
| 28 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 29 | This seems to be the view that President Bush has accepted . |
| 30 | All this was to change , however , in the year she describes as ‘ extraordinary ’ , 1963 , as a result of what she took to be the effect that television was having on public debate . |