Example sentences of "[be] [det] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granted that the whole of history may have a meaning , a purpose and a direction — and granted , too , the power and fruitfulness of many of Hegel 's ideas — are that purpose and direction so easily uncovered as he suggests ? |
| 2 | Specific requirements are that Unix or VMS is usually the primary operating system and that primary distribution is via direct or OEM sales to technical markets . |
| 3 | Specific requirements are that Unix or VMS is usually the primary operating system and that primary distribution is via direct or OEM sales to technical markets . |
| 4 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 5 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 6 | A more fundamental objection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs . |
| 7 | I mean , there have been some in the area , which have n't been that flats as well . |
| 8 | A man with unfashionably long hair — it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days , Loretta guessed — was stabbing the air with his fork . |
| 9 | Sean , you could n't have been that shit-faced that you could n't go upto the Roger and ask him whether he was Roger or not ? |
| 10 | It might have been that thing that er that bloke puts in them . |
| 11 | But despite some concessions made to access considerations , there has been little evidence that he will change his mind . |
| 12 | But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war . |
| 13 | There had been little investigation or calling for witnesses . |
| 14 | It had been a wet , raw winter , with the ground waterlogged and streams running high ; but at least there had been little snow and the hill passes were open , which was just as well for a journey to mid-Annandale . |
| 15 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 16 | For younger mothers it usually comes as a surprise , an unintended consequence of a past or current sexual relationship , and an event for which there has been little planning or preparation . |
| 17 | In fact , some argue that there has been little growth or development over the years in the service . |
| 18 | There has been little understanding or recognition of the rights of teachers as employees let alone as adults with needs , expectations and aspirations . |
| 19 | Bernier constantly contrasts Mughal India and seventeenth-century France : the Jumna compares favourably with the Loire , he thinks ; adultery is easier in Paris than it is in Delhi : ‘ in France it only excites merriment , but in this part of the world there are few instances where it is not followed by some dreadful and tragical catastrophe . ’ |
| 20 | There are few secrets that you can keep from her . |
| 21 | If there are many cable crossovers the loose tension will hardly show and will certainly make the knitting easier , but where there are few cables and a lot of plain knitting the looseness of the plain knitting will take over and make the work look faulty . |
| 22 | But there are few women and even fewer men who do n't slip up at some point in their lives , in thought if not in deed . |
| 23 | Much work remains to be done on the structure of the shire community , and there are few shires where it has been closely analysed . |
| 24 | There are few patterns as varied and beautiful as those made by the feathers of birds . |
| 25 | There are few prisoners that I know of , and a hundred people live there , including two or three who are official security guards . |
| 26 | There are few columns or piers in these domed forms of construction , thus leaving open spaces in the interior where wall , vault and ceiling pictures can be seen without interruption . |
| 27 | The stomach 's adaptive capacity may alter its response to alcohol , but , there are few studies that have considered this problem . |
| 28 | In library education , however , there are few areas where it is necessary to use moving images . |
| 29 | Burrows seems to have lived with his material for so long that he has forgotten to throw out enough clues for the rest of us , and there are few hints as to why certain sequences are so important that they should be repeated over and over again But what constantly saves the piece from disappearing into itself is the obliquely moving nature of the central relationship and some patchy but startlingly lovely dance images . |
| 30 | There are few trees and no parks to be seen . |