Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expected my times at Marseille to be measured in years and months , not weeks and days . |
| 2 | He chose me as his master , which appealed to me enormously , as it 's one of my functions in life to be a teacher , so I was very happy at being this kind of pedagogue . |
| 3 | At the ruling prices fixed in a market determined by competition to meet this demand , the local authorities placed their contracts for estates to be built for slum clearance and relief of overcrowding . |
| 4 | New evidence of ozone layer thinning in the Northern Hemisphere has spurred governments to tighten still further their timetables for CFCs to be withdrawn from industrial use . |
| 5 | Together , their demands for self-determination to be guaranteed before an election will be harder for Mr de Klerk to ignore . |
| 6 | It is also significant because critics of theism have sometimes claimed that theists wish their statements about God to be ‘ necessary ’ propositions — propositions whose denial involves a contradiction . |
| 7 | The presumption behind such arguments is that theists wish their statements about God to be propositions that it would be impossible to deny . |
| 8 | There must also have been a loop so that locomotives could run round their trains in order to be at the front for the journey back to Bishop 's Castle . |
| 9 | Why are they so large , because their economies of scale to be reaped right companies are trying to erm , to accrue those economies of scale right , cos if they do n't , they 'll go out of business , because their competitors alright will produce , erm , a superior or a lower price product okay . |
| 10 | That conclusion is supported by contemporary evidence from Qureshi and Simons 's ( 1987 ) study in Sheffield , which clearly indicates that it is rare for elderly people to move in with their children in order to be cared for . |
| 11 | Both oral presentation and writing , however , have an additional function in helping the researchers to sort out and understand their findings in order to be able to communicate them to others . |
| 12 | Both oral presentation and writing , however , have an additional function in helping the researchers to sort out and understand their findings in order to be able to communicate them . |
| 13 | The point is that individual shareholders , each with a holding insufficient to affect the outcome of the bid , have an incentive to reject the offer to buy their shares in order to be able to ‘ free ride ’ on the efforts of the bidder , if successful . |
| 14 | He urged the police committee to approve his plans in principle to be implemented ‘ when the financial situation improves ’ . |