Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owners of domestic dogs do not normally expect their pets to be out hunting prey , bringing it down and killing it , in the same fashion as their wild cousins — the wolf on the Arctic Tundra or the Cape hunting dog of the African Serengeti . |
| 2 | The right for their tenants ' association to be officially recognised . |
| 3 | Some , certainly , are very good at it , but there is a clear tendency for much of their thinking to be rather superficial . |
| 4 | But when she reached the office she found concentration to be almost impossible , and within a short time she became impatient with herself . |
| 5 | The binomial test found this result to be very significant . |
| 6 | Both sides expect the result to be very close . |
| 7 | A hyponym , being more specific in sense than its superordinates , might be expected as a result to be more fastidious in respect of its lexical companions ; and thus the normal contexts of a hyponym might reasonably be expected to constitute a sub-set of the normal contexts of a superordinate . |
| 8 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 9 | Police say there 's no need for genuine fans to be any more worried now that Swindon 's in the big league . |
| 10 | The characteristic Christian theme was most at variance with pagan assumptions in that bishops asked husbands to be as faithful to their wives as they expected their wives to be to them . |
| 11 | Editor 's footnote : Most authorities would consider High Force to be completely suicidal and not ‘ a perfectly viable proposition ’ . |
| 12 | We expect the level of running costs of the Trident force to be well below 2 per cent . |
| 13 | Whether it allows the exercise of force to be more controlled and effective has yet to be seen . |
| 14 | We do not expect the running costs of the Trident force to be significantly different from those of Polaris . |
| 15 | The original thinking behind conservation — those economic imperatives to be more efficient with energy and use less — was based on an outlook of steeply rising prices . |
| 16 | So the observations about folk theories of consciousness , though highly interesting , do not in themselves show consciousness to be more impoverished than we had earlier thought , for fictions are as good as fillers of consciousness as are truths . |
| 17 | A spokesman for PPL said that many hoteliers and restaurateurs believe that they only need a licence from the PRS to be fully covered . |
| 18 | When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet . |
| 19 | The next morning the Prior brought a letter for Corbett ; a simple note which said that Benstede had been attacked by unknown assailants the previous morning , that he was safe but advised Corbett to be most cautious . |
| 20 | Having the time off allowed the quality of both sessions to be even higher . |
| 21 | We were n't prepared for Texas to be quite so — er , Texan . |
| 22 | It had been no hardship to sit and talk horses with her by the hour but he certainly had never expected his friendship to be so handsomely rewarded . |
| 23 | He now declared the aim of the NSDAP to be simply the ‘ annihilation and extirpation of the Marxist world view ’ , and during 1923 , as the notion of a heroic , final struggle between two opposed Weltanschauungen seemed to grow in his mind , the Jews played a less overt role in Hitler 's public statements , whereas the sole , mortal enemy of the Nazi Movement was now proclaimed to be Marxism . |
| 24 | It was the first big closure to be actually implemented . |
| 25 | Participation of users and carers , a desired outcome of empowerment , will require the practitioner to be highly skilled in facilitation , negotiation , representation , and advocacy . |
| 26 | His imaginary opponent is visualized by the practitioner to be all around him . |
| 27 | Within corpora , compounds are tagged with a single tag for the whole compound allowing a set of compounds to be easily extracted . |
| 28 | Its members devote much energy to outreach work — persuading secular Jews to be more religiously observant . |
| 29 | One scene from the film had remained in her mind : it had seemed to Marie to be more or less her own experience of life . |
| 30 | The federal parliament has now agreed to allow some 300 of the pesticide formulations to be both sold and used in the eastern states until the end of 1994 . |