Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 2 | The depressing facts of the matter are that in those sectors still covered by the councils , areas like shops and catering and laundries , security and administration , people are already working punishing shifts for pittances because their employers know the chances of being caught dispensing illegal hourly rates are minimal as are the resultant fines in those few cases successfully brought to prosecution . |
| 3 | The chances are that in some organizations there will be real difficulties and dangers such as in nursing , coal mining , and heavy industries or indeed any work situation which has machinery . |
| 4 | The basis of the Good Friday belief appears to have been that on that day the soil is redeemed from the power of Satan — the old chthonic god of the pre-Christian religion — and for this brief time he has no influence on it at all . |
| 5 | The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises . |
| 6 | The result has been that in many GIS spatial queries initiated by the user must be formulated in terms of a software-specific command language . |
| 7 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 8 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 9 | She had an idea where the first sniper had been but in any case he could have moved . |
| 10 | It could n't have been because of that . ’ |
| 11 | and it must of been because of that |
| 12 | ‘ Actually , I 'm just happy to be where I am because after that early problem we only had 14 minutes of running , so it was a short session . ’ |
| 13 | Just just think about that and just use that graph there If you wanted to work out the angle there , the tan of the angle would be that over that , but only when the scale is the same on both axes . |
| 14 | The assumption seemed to be that through some mechanism or other , the additional allocation of relatively small sums to be used for capital projects would moderate the problems of the inner-urban areas . |
| 15 | It may be that on such a consultation the Lord Chief Justice will take a different view from that of the trial judge , but under the present procedure the prisoner will be unaware of any variation of the trial judge 's original advice . |
| 16 | Modem linkage for Dawyck will be needed within the next five years , and it may be that at that point we could decide to install a multiplexor to deal with all of our external computer links — use of local EUCS services , JANET , PSS , Royline and others . |
| 17 | It could be that at some future date we may wish to consider running DOS-based PCs from a Unix file-server , but it is preferable that we leave this as a possible option at the moment , rather than a definite commitment . |
| 18 | Warwick 's chief stewardship in the duchy of Lancaster went not to Gloucester but to Hastings and the implication seems to be that at this stage the king was more concerned to reward his allies than to undertake a major reconstruction of royal authority in the north . |
| 19 | It may be that at this time he was retained also by Simon of Montfort , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , who had awarded him a money fee before 1245 . |
| 20 | The sample may be biased insofar as Livingstone and Wilkie used middle management as their study and it may well be that at this level individuals are reasonably well paid and hence money is not as important as other factors . |
| 21 | Warwick 's chief stewardship in the duchy of Lancaster went not to Gloucester but to Hastings and the implication seems to be that at this stage the king was more concerned to reward his allies than to undertake a major reconstruction of royal authority in the north . |
| 22 | Even so it may be that regarding each individual , he is less likely successfully to follow right reasons which apply to him anyway if left to himself than if he always obeys the directives of a just government including those which are morally reprehensible . |
| 23 | The fact seems to be that in such cases it is inappropriate to think in terms of discrete variation . |
| 24 | So you 've got these problems of balance , and it may be that in these situations Local Authorities have got to take a higher role in providing for their own people , as it were . |
| 25 | It may be that in those circumstances an injunction could be obtained against him effectively to prevent his giving his authority to advertising activities in the name of the firm which would be prohibited if done in his own name . |
| 26 | ‘ It 'll be that in any case , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 27 | In Darcy 's Utopia the first rule of education will be that in any school the teachers shall outnumber the pupils , and no pupil need attend who does not wish to do so . |
| 28 | It may well be that in some metropolitan areas Labour is suffering the kind of adverse voter reaction noted in the London boroughs , but the issue of the poll tax appears itself to have had very little substantive impact on the differences in electoral behaviour between authorities . |
| 29 | ‘ It may be that in some parts of the country the trade off will emphasise accountability more and cost less . ’ |
| 30 | Another reason for Yugoslavia 's large exports to the Soviet Union is said to be that in this way the Soviet Union can obtain Western products which would not otherwise be so easily available to it . |