Example sentences of "be [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Muses , a Columbia University Doctor of Philosophy , is convinced that there are forms of living substance far more subtle than our relatively crude polarised ( i.e. electron/proton ) matter form already hinted at in the mysterious physical effectiveness of the so-called ‘ vacuum state ’ as revealed by Quantum Physics . |
| 2 | Authorizing expenses , travel and recruitment are forms of bureaucratic control rather than manifestations of subordination . |
| 3 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 4 | ‘ And yet , ’ he added , ‘ there are builders on that plot now , with an Egyptian engineer , building a palace for an army captain . |
| 5 | There are cases of voidable contracts subsequently ratified , of debts barred by operation of law , subsequently revived , and of equitable and moral obligations , which , but for some rule of law , would of themselves have been sufficient to raise an implied promise . |
| 6 | But writers do not have a monopoly on such claims ; they are part of oral practices too . |
| 7 | Certainly there are areas of common interest e.g. profit-making is important for the survival and growth of an Organisation . |
| 8 | Many hill farmers are smallholders with part-time jobs elsewhere . |
| 9 | There is no discussion of the label ‘ mental handicap ’ , indeed the authors occasionally resort to using the demeaning shorthand ‘ m. h. people ’ , and nowhere is there any reference to self advocacy , to assertiveness , to shared record keeping and assessment , all of which have been areas of considerable interest recently to people with learning disability and those who work with them ( for example , Williams and Scheutz , 1982 ; Brechin and Swain , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Most of the agricultural sector is taken up by part-time crofting but , unusual for Shetland , there are tracts of fertile land sufficiently extensive to allow for some full-time farming . |
| 11 | lots of all , lots of wire and bricks and stones and old potatoes , you want to see potatoes that grow in that field , there 's never been potatoes in that field before , but there is , we throw all the dicey ones over the fence |
| 12 | Attacks on adult women were featured in a sustained manner in the search stage in national newspapers only when there had been attacks on several women apparently by the same offender — for instance , a special rape squad was set up when a ‘ sex beast ’ was believed to be responsible for a series of attacks on at least twenty-three women . |
| 13 | There are stories of that event also , but it would make this too lengthy . |
| 14 | Nevertheless there are problems with this approach too . |
| 15 | ‘ The sad thing is a lot have been people of great importance locally but they go in these homes around they 're forgotten . ’ |
| 16 | There are obvious analogies to the immune system , including the fact that these proteins can be induced and that there are extremes of individual variability often related to the presence of polymorphisms that can lead on occasion to hypersusceptibility to the effects of environmentally derived agents . |
| 17 | I was driving along t you know t telling David that all the time that that people are on the roads practising how to drive and becoming better drivers there are people like that wally there crossing the roa Oh , it 's Simon . |
| 18 | Silver plants are naturals for Mediterranean conditions so , virtually all artemisias will thrive as will the grey-green Jerusalem sage , Phomis fruticosa , all lavenders , and the almost metallic silver , Senecio leucostachys . |
| 19 | I think I thought I wanted to be part of that companionship too but knew it would conclude with my entry But that did n't have to happen because he was closing the kitchen door behind him as I arrived in the passage . |
| 20 | Seven instances or variations of the place-name Thegnaby in the coastal area between Oslo and Göteborg could be part of this picture too , and hint at a considerable degree of organisation . |
| 21 | On a , there used to be shelves in that cart then . |
| 22 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 23 | There would certainly be trouble with over rates today . |
| 24 | It transpired rather late in the planning of Overlord that what had been thought to be beaches of hard sand actually had bands of exposed clay . |
| 25 | On the whole I think it 's a , a good thing , er it 's only five or six years ago that an historian called Paul Kennedy published a book saying that America was in decline as a super power , er and in fact I think what 's happening is that er , there are , there are going to be clusters of super powers now in the world and they 're all more modest than American and the Soviet Union were a few years ago . |
| 26 | there has to be space for these people though somehow I always feel that they cream it all the same . |
| 27 | Sometimes , we are forced to be members of one group rather than another ; in the British colony , Kenyans were ill those inhabitants excluded by the British from a share in political and administrative power , or at least that was the appearance . |
| 28 | Declining markets are therefore not likely to be receivers of major investment even if current returns are high . |
| 29 | So I would probably hold out to starvation point and possibly inadvertently beyond , because there will be disease in that place very soon . |
| 30 | The next stage occurs when everyone concerned with the case assumes that there are connections between various incidents even though the evidence may still be shaky . |