Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] [verb] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is what makes the difference between the phrase ( 30 ) , where the first-order relation is of course qualification , and the completeness of ( 31 ) : ( 30 ) lucky Gomez ( 31 ) Gomez is lucky Similarly , this is the difference which opposes ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) , where the relation assigned is equation rather than qualification : ( 32 ) the broker , a man in a grey suit ( 33 ) the broker was a man in a grey suit The notion of " completeness " may seem vague ; again , however , we should not expect it to be defined more closely for the very good reason that fundamental notions — and we take assignment together with equation and qualification , along with the ideas of entity and property , to be the bedrock of linguistic structure — do not allow themselves to be defined . |
| 2 | Skiing is just like windsurfing , except the water 's been freeze dried , spread around a mountain side and bashed into submission . |
| 3 | It was Innocent 's misfortune that the man chosen was Otto of Brunswick . |
| 4 | It is true that removal of radiocaesium by clinoptilolite seems to be less effective than by bentonite or a hexacyanoferrate II but this may well be because a zeolitised tuff has been used ( 40–60 per cent zeolite content ) , or that the clinoptilolite used is potassium rich . |
| 5 | He had forgotten to use proper typographic quotation marks , the double sixes and nines , and the resulting inch marks were instant proof that the document had been desktop published . |
| 6 | Yeltsin assured the miners that the transfer had been part of the pact which he and eight other republican leaders had signed with USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev a week earlier [ see p. 38129 ] . |
| 7 | There was some speculation that the action had been part of ongoing Israeli efforts to secure the release of servicemen missing in Lebanon . |
| 8 | Rezzag Bara , chairman of a commission of inquiry into the assassination in June of President Mohammed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 , said on Algerian television on Dec. 10 that the killing had been part of a wider conspiracy serving the interests of radical Moslem movements . |
| 9 | In his autobiography he claimed that the family had been farmers at Long Eaton , Derbyshire , since the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | You spent £2.06 on batteries , and £1.71 on nine 19p stamps , so the TOTAL PAID was £3.77 . |
| 11 | One ingredient of the net benefits that a society enjoys is health . |
| 12 | If the price had been £50 lower it would have earned a fourth star . |
| 13 | If the investment involved is £100 million , however , it is not so good . |
| 14 | If the investment involved is £100 million , however , it is not so good . |
| 15 | Self-confidence , certainly , self-awareness , and the ability to organise are qualities which many of us value . |
| 16 | In this case the D curve moves to the right , to D 1 , and the quantity demanded is Oq 1 . |
| 17 | Help is at hand , and the company to contact is Cree Research Inc , Durham , North Carolina , which has created a light-emitting diode out of Silicon Carbide that glows blue . |
| 18 | Only God knows if the man I and the landlord glimpsed was Sir Bartholomew . |
| 19 | The rains have been good this year , and the crop has been bumper , but tobacco is fetching only 93 American cents a kilo at international auctions — less than half the price expected . |
| 20 | He asked for a MRA force to come to the Ruhr — ‘ and the place to begin is Moers , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Scotland and the South-West have been exceptions , moving against the national trend since 1981 with an upturn in their population fortunes . |
| 22 | These are tiny freedoms , and if a woman enjoys being part of a couple , they should count for nothing . |
| 23 | ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year . |
| 24 | The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages . |
| 25 | Note also from table 10.2 ( last figure in fifth row ) that it is not totally unheard of for couples to share the rearing of their children by both working part-time , but the number involved was minute — 9000 in the whole of England and Wales in 1981 . |
| 26 | Their leader since the beginning has been Fr Joe Dunn . |
| 27 | ‘ Where do you live ? ’ enquired Betty , contriving to look at once serious , since the subject had been death , and also interested in the Molesworths ' continuing existence . |
| 28 | A simple way to tell whether an item has been sun washed or chemically washed is to open the pile . |
| 29 | But the answer may differ according as the person injured was C or some other user of the highway . |