Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supraventricular extrasystoles , on the other hand , occur with increasing frequency throughout life , but there is no evidence of an association with ischaemic heart disease or that their presence is of prognostic importance . |
| 2 | Supraventricular extrasystoles occur with increasing frequency throughout life , but there is no evidence of an association with ischaemic heart disease or that their presence is of prognostic importance . |
| 3 | The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance . |
| 4 | ‘ Did he ever say anything to suggest that he felt threatened , or that his life was in danger ? ’ she asked . |
| 5 | The authors warn visiting foreign scientists that their presence in the USSR will be used by the KGB to show that Sakharov is forgotten or that his exile is at least accepted . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not deny that I have had my troubles off the park , or that my mind was on other things for a while , but my head is down and I am concentrating on making a contribution to the team once again . |
| 7 | The questions which arise in this appeal are whether Miss T. was fit to make a decision not to have a blood transfusion and whether she made a genuine decision of her own volition or whether her decision is to be impugned by the undue influence of her mother . |
| 8 | The eponymous notion of Ferdinand Magellan 's men that the Mar del Sur was a Pacific sea , blessed by fine weather and pleasant breezes , was more or less coded — at least , for that region of the Ocean through which they first sailed and where their optimism was at its height . |
| 9 | When actress Leslie Ash was pregnant she was told she was suffering from toxoplasmosis and that her baby was in danger . |
| 10 | But what there is clearly indicates that his family was well-to-do , and that his upbringing was of a kind available only to those with status and financial resources . |
| 11 | Do n't ignore the fact that although Michael misspelled 14 words , he spelled 75 correctly , and that his story is worth reading . |
| 12 | I learnt later that it was the island of Trinidad , and that my island was in the mouth of the River Orinoco on the north coast of South America . |
| 13 | So he answered that that might not be , that he would have me whether I would or no , and that my brother was of his opinion in this matter . |
| 14 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 15 | There is one woman who regularly gazes across to her old home at Wouldham and if her brother is in his garden can see him plainly , but has n't spoken to him for several years . |
| 16 | It is certainly not enough to say that the former position shows " attribution " and the latter " predication " ; one must go on to say what these terms of one 's theory mean , and if our account is to be genuinely explanatory , we must do so in ways which can be related to concepts and phenomena which stand outside our initial theory . |
| 17 | And if our drama is to be at all dramatic we 'll need to put those people in a difficult situation , one which confronts them with choices . |
| 18 | And if your skin is at all fair or sensitive , you should n't start off with anything less than an SPF 15 suncream. remember there are two kinds of rays from the sun — UVB rays which work on the skin surface and can burn , and UVA , the deeply penetrating rays which damage and age the skin . |
| 19 | The red semi-regular variable R Doradûs lies near Alpha , and since its range is from magnitude 7 to 8 it can be followed with binoculars . |
| 20 | Alexandra walked over to the door and when her hand was upon the handle , turned and said , ‘ I am going to obliterate this conversation in my memory of your visit . |
| 21 | The need , or wish , to buy your first home may well happen before you are firmly established in your career and when your salary is at a relatively low level . |
| 22 | Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981a ) also looked at lag behind the speaker and though his concern was for individual comparison , a general conclusion is that the usual 2 — 3 seconds lag of the BSL interpreter behind the speaker is not sufficient for the message to be both understood and presented to the audience in a form which can be understood . |
| 23 | She watched as the boy ate ravenously , he was one of a large family and though his father was in regular employment at the copper works , he drank a great deal and kept his wife and children short of even the bare necessities of life . |
| 24 | Many whales also spend some considerable time swimming on the surface , where good sight is required but where their sonar is of little use . |
| 25 | This is because they have been processed automatically ; but if our attention is on our own thoughts rather than the author 's , then comprehension will fail . |
| 26 | But if your family is at the bottom or middle of the community hierarchy it is under constant critical scrutiny and the women particularly have to conform ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 27 | But if your need is for anything other than that , that is to say something a little more complex , then the functionality built into Designer Labels is probably powerful enough to do the trick for you . |
| 28 | But if your figure was above hundred and twenty five thousand pounds you 'd have to fill int an inland revenue account . |
| 29 | William could see the village where they lived and the smoke from the fires rising straight up into the air and the dark tower of the church rising above a cluster of stark trees , and because he was nervous he wanted to work his way in that direction , so it would not be so far to run , but because his father was beside him , smiling his reassuring smile , he did n't . |
| 30 | Not because your parents are right , but because your obedience is to Christ ; your obedience is in the Lord and you are therefore honouring God by so doing . |