Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [noun] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm a king to what I was . ’ |
| 2 | His is a theology in which Adam is unredeemed , and life itself a plague . |
| 3 | In 1958 then , I was a member of what we knew was the premier force in the area with the external boundaries of the adjacent forces as our immediate threshold to what Douglas ( 1966 : 137 ) had called ‘ new status ’ . |
| 4 | The lord abbot here has been good enough to admit me to his confidence so far as is appropriate , since I was a witness of what happened this morning , but now you have cause to enquire further , as I understand . |
| 5 | His was a world in which sacred and secular , clergy and laity , men and women , were all to be sharply separated in a way that neither modern secular society , nor those in the West attempting to rethink Christianity in relation to that society , could possibly accept . |
| 6 | Through such aggregation , logical documents can be defined which are a synthesis of what may be many diverse physical documents . |
| 7 | The case in favour of its being a mechanism by which real memory is stored in the brain derives primarily , as I have implied , from the known role of the hippocampus in various forms of memory processes , and the fact that forms of associative LTP can be shown to occur . |
| 8 | Challenges on this ground can be made at an earlier stage in the reference by a construction summons , which is a procedure by which a party who disputes the meaning of a document can apply to the court for a ruling . |
| 9 | The two most powerful prose meditations attributed to Rolle , on the other hand , enact a painful penitential sense of the gap between the sour sterility which is a concomitant of what St Paul calls " the body of this death " ( Romans 7:24 ) and the joy and creativity of God , though comparison between them reveals different levels of engagement with the same theme . |
| 10 | Then the two of us were filmed walking round the garden , and back at the BBC to cover these shots I narrated a commentary which was a distillation of what Dönitz had said . |
| 11 | ‘ No wonder you 're a whiz at what you do . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships . |
| 13 | I see that in American television now there are a lot of what I call reality-based shows which are doing that also . |
| 14 | In order to be as free as possible , that my will have the greatest possible range consistent with the similar will of others , it is necessary that there be a way in which I may commit myself … . |
| 15 | Okay right so there 's a s there 's a system to what 's going on with the acids and it 's not just one acid like hydrochloric most of the acids will do it some of them do it very readily some of them you have to get the conditions right often you have to get the temperature high to make it to make the reaction go but a metal plus an acid erm there 's a typical one zinc H two S O four gives zinc sulphate and the hydrogen . |
| 16 | There 's a sense to which , to put it in current terms |
| 17 | Well , of course , there 's a sense in which he could easily have prayed for them , but at that moment , in that particular place , that was not God 's purpose . |
| 18 | There 's a sense in which it might sound rather strange , I think Simon was there was something in this guy that is attractive I think . |
| 19 | But there 's a sense in which every day has got ta be an anniversary of that , a celebration of that . |
| 20 | Though , you know , there 's a sense in which we can use , we we 're a , we gave it in you to have a certain amount of license , and we can use illustrations just as we would use modern illustrations to describe spiritual truths and to use them to illustrate the gospel . |
| 21 | So erm y'know there 's a sense in which some people feel rather suspicious of this sort o y'know the family dynamics type theories because it draws attention away from the responsibility of the people who actually do the abuse . |
| 22 | Erm there 's a sense in which y'know kind of when I go to concerts erm there 's y'know kind of there 's loads of blokes who take their shirts off and er wrestle around together and build human pyramids and do all that kind of , lots of body contact , lots of grasping one-another and all that kind of thing and yet erm y'know presumably to them , on the assumption that they 're heterosexual , as I assume probably they are , it 's it 's one of these things that erm y'know is kind of again maybe it even occurs at the same time as they 're quite homophobic in some cases . |
| 23 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 24 | So there 's a sense in which you use a computer for all sorts of different purposes . |
| 25 | I suppose there 's a sense in which poetry can only be shared with other people if there is some common experience , maybe at a deeper level some collective unconscious , otherwise I would n't be able to respond to your poetry ? |
| 26 | But there 's a sense in which the teachers themselves are going to have to learn new skills , both in terms of the sheer mechanics of handling these devices , but also in sort of learning how to use them best in their actual teaching . |
| 27 | There 's a sense in which , to put it in current terms , |
| 28 | There 's a sense in which I think you are saying something which I 've often heard people say recently , and that is that in a day , in a time of rapid change , we personally and collectively need to make sense of where we 're going , our futures , in terms of our past . |
| 29 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 30 | So there 's a sense in which you use a computer for all sorts of different purposes . |