Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question for the consideration of the court at the stage when the amount of contribution has to be assessed is how much , if anything , ought to be recoverable by the third defendant from the third party ‘ having regard to the extent of [ the third party 's ] responsibility for the damage in question . ’ |
| 2 | The suggestion to be explored is rather that to think difference culturally rather than sexually might be both more illuminating and more liberating . |
| 3 | The attitude of most feminists appears to be that , if women have reached higher education , then they are ‘ successful ’ ; the only questions to be asked are why fewer women than men reach higher education in the first place , and why they are concentrated in different subject areas . |
| 4 | Accounting tends to supersede direct observation because the units to be controlled are usually many and they are also probably geographically dispersed . |
| 5 | Another misconception is that a planning appeal is a means of settling a ‘ dispute ’ between applicant and authority and that therefore the issues to be considered are only those raised by the planning authority . |
| 6 | The puzzle that has to be solved is why many adults can not ’ . |