Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women 's seemingly paradoxical behaviour merely drives home the point that there are profound contradictions and complexities of position to be unravelled before we can get further in our understanding of the road to divorce . |
| 2 | It is normal practice with ASU Schemes for premiums to be collected , and certificates of insurance to be issued , by the financial institution with whom we have arranged cover . |
| 3 | Concordances are often more helpful than dictionaries for determining the precise sense of a word in an author 's vocabulary , and they enable favourite phrases and tricks of style to be identified and catalogued . |
| 4 | ONE of the most graphic accounts of the horrors and practicalities of war to be published in recent years is The Imperial War Museum Book of The First World War . |
| 5 | Fuller proceeds to lay down what he conceives the forms and limits of adjudication to be . |
| 6 | There was no power to require meetings and marches of protest to be notified to the police , though most organisers did so . |
| 7 | Viewed now , nearly half a century later , these studies — attractive though they are — seem remarkably dated , for children 's rate of development has increased over the years and we are now more aware of the variety of kinds and degrees of development to be found among the individual boys and girls in one age group . |
| 8 | Changes in sea level may cause the swamp to be flooded and layers of sand to be deposited on top of the peat . |
| 9 | There may be complaints and accusations of neglect to be endured at first , but it is stimulating for the old person to have new company and most important for you , the carer , to maintain some friends and some life outside the home , both for present needs and for the future when you will be alone . |
| 10 | There is , however , no way of overcoming the objection that analyses of Seascale data for this period are not amenable to any rigorous statistical evaluation because the area , age group , and types of disease to be studied were selected as a result of the observed clustering of cases . |
| 11 | In our rapidly vanishing century , decades are also taken as periods of time to be commemorated . |