Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [pron] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shouted , ‘ Yes , there is more between this donkey 's legs than there is between that donkey 's ears ! ’ |
| 2 | In general one might say that Law has become marginally less distinct from other subjects than it was in that quite a few people are doing cross disciplinary research , e.g. in law and economics and law and society . |
| 3 | Although the turnout was lower those who cast valid votes seemed to be slightly more inclined in this election to express preferences further down the list of candidates than they were in 1973 . |
| 4 | You can get free prescriptions if you 're in one of the two groups of people shown below . |
| 5 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 6 | The need to reject unmatchable subjects because they are in some rare category of the extraneous variables means that the sample groups do not truly represent the population ; |
| 7 | Theoretically , bats could do the same thing , but dolphins seem more likely candidates because they are in general more social . |
| 8 | The other group of people who you might have thought , ought to have taken them up and been interested in them , was the wider field of social science , er , writers after all , social scientists , ought to be interested in these , in these books because they 're about social science . |
| 9 | Are clinicians reluctant to put older people on surgical waiting lists because they are in some way discriminating against older people ? |
| 10 | Since the node-link-node triples are not as meaningful to readers as they are to those who made the semantic net , the author may place any phrase in the margin . |
| 11 | Nor can potential school achievement or social competence be directly linked to levels of sight : pupils with little or no sight have shown that they can achieve well in school , be independent and happy , since the interaction of the child and the learning environment is as significant for them in helping to achieve these goals as it is for any pupil in school . |
| 12 | Both Ellis and Beto were as proud of their success in raising the salary and status of guards as they were of any other achievement . |
| 13 | The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies , Northgate , Canterbury , have published two maps showing the registration and census districts as they were between 1837 and 1851 and between 1852 and 1946 , though they do not mark exact boundaries . |
| 14 | In June , regular services began from South Shore to Bispham , which became a major terminal of the Promenade cars as it is to this day . |
| 15 | Geeta Amin and I have described some of the effects of reception class in secondary schools as they were in 1974 ( Guardian 15 Aug. 1974 ) : |
| 16 | This time , the Third World has a lever of sorts in its willingness , or unwillingness , to co-operate , but one of limited value since co-operation in drawing up a climate convention is ultimately as much in the interests of the poor nations as it is in those of the rich . |
| 17 | The Forces Programme was renamed the Light Programme in 1945 , ‘ designed to appeal not so much to a certain class of listener — but to all listeners when they are in certain moods ’ ( BBC , 1946 , p. 53 ) . |
| 18 | Central heating can be as serious a scourge to fine old books as it is to fine old furniture . |
| 19 | That is reflected in the fact that there are now about 100,000 more orthopaedic operations than there were in 1979 . |
| 20 | In general , we are asked to pay higher salaries to experienced , but ‘ unqualified ’ , technicians than we are to inexperienced but highly ‘ qualified ’ architects of the same age . |
| 21 | The crime rate is higher in urban areas than it is in rural areas , and the larger the urban area the greater the crime rate is . |
| 22 | By regulation 9 of the 1989 regulations , licences of right are not available in relation to semiconductors as they are with other designs ( such licences are normally available in the last five years of a design right ) . |
| 23 | In the world of the eighteenth century almost everything went easier with the patronage of a great man , a fact which is as true of non-governmental posts as it is of those in the service of the crown . |
| 24 | Yet the eight globins , descendants as they are of these remote branchings in distant ancestors , are still all present inside every one of us . |
| 25 | Such features are usually called raised beaches if they are at a low level , approximately below 50 m ( 150 ft ) OD , and marine terraces , platforms , benches or erosion surfaces if they are above this level . |
| 26 | It is all very well to say , as I am sure the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) will say — because it is what British Rail has said for months — that the great majority of passengers coming into King 's Cross on the channel tunnel trains will go to further destinations by public transport , but there will also be many hundreds of thousands of passengers in a year who will want to be met by friends in cars , who will want to get on to coaches if they are in large parties or who will want to take taxis . |
| 27 | Our results suggest that endometriosis is less of a problem during pregnancy and the subsequent four years than it is at other times , although the finding was not significant . |
| 28 | It is much worse these days than it was in 1966 . |
| 29 | We , like the Kalam of New Guinea , distinguish jays and crows , or red deer and roes ; but whether the two kinds of native oak in Britain are one species or two is a problem , and certainly we all know that there are more differences between different breeds of dogs than there are between some distinct species of animals . |
| 30 | ‘ Home owners should not hesitate to lodge appeals if they are in any way unhappy , ’ he said . |