Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] be [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 oh we can watch the football I do n't know what er Sunderland 's on this afternoon , semi final of the cup
2 I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight .
3 It appeared that Princess Anne was not one of her admirers , and though Princess Anne 's views were at this time usually rather criticised this was something for the press to get its teeth into .
4 All I 'm trying to do is to establish where your father 's Datsun was on that night , and then stop wasting your time . ’
5 Filmer 's bedroom was in that car .
6 They were that Filmer 's bedroom was in that car .
7 Swedish international Limpar 's future is in some doubt at Highbury .
8 The SS Emma Bates 's name was on that torpedo , so he had n't had much of a choice .
9 We now know what the Labour party 's agenda is on that issue .
10 In Parliament Gould 's career was of little note until the later years of Anne 's reign when , in 1713 , he spoke three times ( and very effectively ) against the treaty of commerce with France .
11 As the Secretary of State has said , today 's debate is to some extent a re-run of the debate that took place on 16 April , and we shall be deploying some of the same arguments .
12 You ask what the Government 's policy is on this matter .
13 Experience shows the industry 's argument is in any case unfounded .
14 Or maybe — in a siding only a mile or two from where I lay — a cleaner 's brush was at this moment encountering the bag , wedged back under the seat …
15 Also , it is necessary to avoid giving the impression that the respondent 's answers are in any way exceptional no matter how hair-raising .
16 Much that was important in Arlott 's life was in this room , lined with treasured bookcases and priceless first editions .
17 Golding 's novel is to some degree experimental in style , and when we read it , we sense there is something " odd " about Lok 's language .
18 and King 's Lynn is close to the wash , King 's Lynn is in this area here .
19 Just as Wernicke 's aphasia is in some sense the opposite of Broca 's aphasia , so transcortical aphasia is in some sense the opposite of conduction aphasia , because in transcortical aphasia it is repetition which is the best -preserved of the patient 's linguistic abilities , with the patient being extremely poor at understanding speech .
20 Since , in the case of the parents being separated , young children usually live with their mother in our society , we might infer that the woman 's children are in some form of institutional or educational care .
21 Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault .
22 Certainly Premack 's findings are under this cloud since Sarah 's performance suffered considerably when in the presence of a trainer who did not know the answers that she was supposed to give , and it would seem natural to expect that the more broadbrush methods of the gestural teaching would be equally suspect .
23 But few who attended today 's ceremonies were in any doubt they were witnessing the end of an era .
24 Dic 's family was of that portion .
25 In tone and content Mr Patten 's speech was of some significance , coming like a breath of damp air into the dry and brittle atmosphere of the Winter Garden .
26 Reliance was apparently placed — I say ‘ apparently ’ because there is nothing in the papers which indicates clearly one way or the other what the view of the justices ' clerk was on this subject — I am told that reliance was placed on section 8(3) which provides : ‘ For the purposes of this Act ‘ family proceedings ’ means any proceedings … ( b ) under the enactments mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) . ’
27 Direct selling in customers ' homes is to some extent accepted practice for a number of consumer product groups such as perfumes , cosmetics and toiletries but remains an area of unexplored potential for a number of others .
28 There is never any one answer to any major problem and Keepin and Kats ' calculations are to that extent a cockshy .
29 The later term that Freud adopted to this super ego has become synonymous in people 's minds with conscience the idea of the super ego as the the role of conscience and presum presumably that 's another aspect of the same thing and er Serg Moskovicy in his excellent book Age of the Crowd erm which is on the reading list which I can thoroughly recommend in discussing this point of how Freud sees the leader as the kind of super ego of the followers quotes one of the Nuremberg war criminals , I forget which it was now erm Goering or Goebbels or one of these er people who when asked of the Nuremberg war tribunals why did you do the things you did , replied Adolf Hitler was my conscience and that 's er that 's a very erm good example of this idea of er how the the role of conscience can be transferred from the individual to the , to the leader of the group and I suppose Dean you would say erm illustrates one of the greatest dangers of group , group membership because er obviously if if that happens in a group , then erm individuals are to some extent erm surrendering their moral self-responsibility and of course if Freud 's insight is correct , then there was an element of truth in in this in this excuse Adolf Hitler was my conscience .
30 It should be emphasized that the interpretation of users ' actions is to some extent context-driven .
  Next page