Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] be [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , hopefully the business coming in of , of this month because of the fact that the , the volume of business bound to be higher |
| 2 | The problem of delay tends to be greater with regard to High Court proceedings , whether at the Royal Courts of Justice or not , than county court proceedings . |
| 3 | And consumption of food tends to be higher in sedentary people ; as a result they tend to have lower metabolic rates than active people and an increased chance of becoming even fatter . |
| 4 | In the words of a report of the ministry of economics and finance ( cited in El País , 6 July 1983 ) , ‘ the losses that occur in practice tend to be higher even than those originally forecast because , among other reasons , of the increase in financial charges implied by the need to finance the lags in financial flows caused by insufficient budgetary provision ’ . |
| 5 | Although both washing and washing up are activities in which dirt is removed from objects , the pleasure inherent in washing seems to be greater . |
| 6 | Naively , we would expect many more ordinary quasars , because there is only a small chance of a beam pointing straight at us : but the calculation must also consider the fact that BL Lac objects would on average appear to be brighter than other quasars ( because the doppler effect brightens a beam coming towards us ) , and so we would tend to pick up more of them . |