Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] be [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , the same flat rate applies to everyone , multiplied by the number of years in which they have been participants of the scheme . |
| 2 | A syllogism with premisses of this sort gives a demonstrative understanding of the causes why things necessarily have the properties they do , because the definitions with which it starts are definitions of the ‘ forms ’ of these things , and formal causes are one of the four kinds of cause which Aristotle distinguished . |
| 3 | This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy . |
| 4 | What I needed were points on the line which exist rather than those which are only theoretical . |
| 5 | What you have are groups of people who display superficially similar symptoms for a variety of different reasons . |
| 6 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 7 | But shadow home secretary Tony Blair said : ‘ What we need is schools of responsibility , not colleges of crime . ’ |
| 8 | I think what we need is commitments within the area of search . |
| 9 | What we need are outlets for emotion . |
| 10 | Others , for the same reasons or for what they believe are reasons of legal principle , may argue that no murder is committed , on the basis of the reasoning noted earlier that the ventilator is ‘ prolonging life ’ , and turning it off is an omission permitting death , not a commission causing death . |
| 11 | In this way Engels asserts the generality of the principles discussed , but also he explains the importance of what he believed were remains of gentile principles in the organization of Greece and Rome . |
| 12 | What he wanted were answers to some of the things they might not have thought of . |