Example sentences of "[be] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important points to remember are that pipe runs from the hot water cylinder should be kept as short and as direct as possible to avoid heat loss — and a long wait at the tap before hot water arrives . |
| 2 | The sole grounds are that Kalamis belongs to this period and that the Sosandra 's head was covered . |
| 3 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 4 | Until very recently the standard present-day answer to that question , at least among anthropologists , has been that man has culture and birds do not . |
| 5 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 6 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 7 | There 's always been that instinct to pick up those who have been hurt ; at one time she wanted to be a nurse , but the thought of night shifts put her off . |
| 8 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 9 | Cotterell 's experience so far had been that RCO had virtually pre-written most of Carson 's material for him . |
| 10 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 11 | The report was published in July 1986 and concluded that apparently there had been little work done on the effects of skill mix on patient services and that " a higher priority should be given by management to achieving the best value for money by the adoption of methods of allocating staffing resources more closely related to the needs of patients and ward objectives . |
| 12 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 13 | While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures . |
| 14 | But there has been little legislation directed specifically towards women . |
| 15 | But in the midst of the holocaust wrought by long-term unemployment on the jobless , there has been little time to examine the effect of the current climate on the working population . |
| 16 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 17 | There has been little research to evaluate IT and IS and how they effect the top levels of organisations . |
| 18 | The fall-off curves away from such centres of consumption imply that the redistribution of such goods was controlled , but there has been little research carried out to determine the patterns of dispersal in any more detail . |
| 19 | A lot of ‘ behind the scenes ’ work has meant there has been little news to report for some months on the A1 Locomotive Trust 's plans to build Peppercorn Pacific No 60163 . |
| 20 | Three-quarters felt that there had been little feedback following its presentation . |
| 21 | In the UK , different local authorities have developed a range of renewal policies but there has been little attempt to evaluate their effect in the wider urban context . |
| 22 | There has been little attempt to create projects to promote women 's development and even less understanding of the issues involved . |
| 23 | In yet other cases there has been little attempt to intervene . |
| 24 | Note that bass notes are mostly dissonant with the melody , and that there has been little attempt to remove note-relationships which conventionally would be regarded as crude and unmusical . |
| 25 | There has been little attempt to review previous research with a view to formulating and testing specific hypotheses … frequently studies seem to start and finish with relatively untested common sense assumptions . |
| 26 | There is a host of community-related rural organisations in Scotland , many of which are purely social , or purely functional , some of which have broad ( non-party ) political aims , ( very few it seems make any attempt at all to combine social and political aspects even in a semi-structured way ) , but there has been little attempt to make learning connections between the assortment of community groups . |
| 27 | each the same sort of components , the same components are each colour say in a red individual they 'd all be pinky red colours and in a blue individual they 'd all be a blue colour |
| 28 | Dolphins , large and small whales , sea birds and turtles , as well as the fish and squid swimming in the upper surface of the ocean at night , are each year dying in their tens or hundreds of thousands , victims of these enormous and near invisible webs of death . |
| 29 | Our world strives to be self-sufficient , and there are few resources to spare . |
| 30 | There are few rules laid down , apart from not smoking in the classroom and informing the staff if they ca n't come in , and the rest of the rules about things like washing up and cooking are made and implemented by girls themselves . |