Example sentences of "be a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very little research has been carried out on the functions of domestic pottery ; there must have been a variety of functions which , glibly , can be placed under the headings of cooking and storage , but behind such distinctions there is little clarity . |
| 2 | There had been a plethora of events which had propelled children 's reporters and the hearing system into the public arena . |
| 3 | As Karl Barth expresses it , woman is to man as B is to A ; why should woman mind ? 17 The idea that western religion has itself been a cause of attitudes which have deeply harmed women obviously can not be given entrance by them . |
| 4 | 11 , has been a source of problems which perhaps have yet to be resolved at the highest level . |
| 5 | Some of the er that measure is not actually effective or not possible in the context of of the facility er I think there 's been a search for measures which will be effective and er erm that 's what the efforts gone in to , finding an effective way of preventing it . |
| 6 | There have been a number of surveys which have generated specific estimates of job-loss implications of particular technologies . |
| 7 | Thirdly , there have been a number of studies which have found abnormal levels of arousal and an inability to maintain attention among people with schizophrenia . |
| 8 | Following from Donoghue v. Stevenson there have been a number of cases which have sought to apply the neighbour principle to different situations and thus broaden its scope . |
| 9 | Liberal Democrats believe that there are a range of initiatives which could be introduced in the UK along the same lines . |
| 10 | So , there are a range of senses which attach to the idea of the student 's critical abilities , reflecting different value positions . |
| 11 | There are a range of signals which can be used in this way . |
| 12 | There are a variety of biases which safety researchers face . |
| 13 | Rather there are a variety of perspectives which do share the common emphasis of viewing social behaviour as the product of social arrangements , social forces and conditions , etc. , but which may differ in the relative emphasis which they assign to certain specific factors or variables for explaining that behaviour . |
| 14 | The only things you will lose , are a couple of repeats which the London players include , and the newcomers do not . |
| 15 | The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from |
| 16 | Near the start there are a couple of pieces which Tolkien had written up to thirty years before , both rewritten a little for their new context : Frodo 's ‘ Man in the Moon ’ song in the Prancing Pony , Sam 's ‘ Rhyme of the Troll ’ near Weathertop . |
| 17 | There are a couple of points which have occured to me since the meeting : |
| 18 | To the extent that completion of the SEM will encourage production activities to become more mobile , there are a series of factors which will also come to determine choice of location . |
| 19 | Particularly important are a series of changes which took place prior to the development of industrial technology . |
| 20 | There are a series of modifications which are shown on the right hand side of Fig. 1.2 , and each will now be discussed briefly in turn , following the order of the flow chart . |
| 21 | Rating scales are a subset of questionnaires which invite informants to select a number corresponding to the extent of their response , or to select one of a series of descriptions , usually corresponding to an ordinal scale with a neutral midpoint , to which the investigator can easily assign numbers . |
| 22 | In addition to the tribunals to which s.13 applies , there are a number of tribunals whose constituent legislation provides that a person aggrieved by a decision of the tribunal may require the tribunal to state a case for the opinion of the High Court . |
| 23 | And indeed within the greenbelt there are a number of settlements which we are sitting in one at the moment . |
| 24 | There are a number of games which can be played — board games , card games , memory games . |
| 25 | But there are a number of treatments which can make an enormous difference to the quality of people 's lives . ’ |
| 26 | There are a number of matters which need to be considered by the partners as we enter this next phase . |
| 27 | There are a number of matters which it will need to take into account : ( 1 ) The offeror must consider whether to proceed by way of a takeover offer or a Court Scheme . |
| 28 | Erm there are a number of matters which need to be picked up by the county council as a result of requests which we made on Friday and also you will note that a number of additional papers have been laid on the table . |
| 29 | There are a number of companies which specialise in this type of training . |
| 30 | There are a number of processes which reproduce themselves through time and which keep poor farmers in perpetual poverty and force them to use their natural environment in non-sustainable ways . |