Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , even if this were permitted , the necessary expertise for contracting is unlikely to be available at the local level . |
| 2 | If permission for copying is refused by the publisher , it may be that the work has been withdrawn at the request of its composer . |
| 3 | The case for staying was particularly strong in that the tapes may have recorded not merely circumstantial evidence but some of the facts in issue in the case . |
| 4 | Recent commentaries , therefore , such as the review by O. B. Stabell , maintain that the case for imprinting is at best not proved . |
| 5 | This is why the Government 's present enthusiasm for volunteering is hard to stomach . |
| 6 | WordStar 's support for mailmerging is surprisingly comprehensive . |
| 7 | What is disturbing , apart from the underlying assumptions that this kind of assessment for streaming are based upon , and the pressure for all departments to conform to a normative style of assessment , is that in the end the decisions over which pupils should be moved up or down is based upon a very limited range of subjects which do not include art or music . |
| 8 | William Hutton , the son of a framework knitter , was sent to work at Derby 's silk mill in 1730 ; he later cursed his luck for having been born in the one city in the world where such could have been his fate . |
| 9 | One of their champions the prominent politician Jack Ashley , who remains an elected Member of Parliament after having been deafened at the age of forty-five , expressed their feelings in a speech delivered in 1973 : the deaf must adopt a very different attitude to society as a whole … |
| 10 | Many young stock for fattening are bought in the market at York from the upland farmers of Ireland , Wales , Scotland and the Pennines . |
| 11 | But roughly speaking , I , a figure worth remembering is that ninety decibels and above can cause permanent damage and under all circumstances situations above this level should be avoided . |
| 12 | The final template worth mentioning is Drawing . |
| 13 | Darwin 's analysis of the state of consciousness during dreaming is still well worth reading . |
| 14 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 15 | One further effect worth considering is the bowel preparation before harvesting of the tissue . |
| 16 | The rule for dragging is the same as fro crosshatching : strong colours first . |
| 17 | So as it says at the bottom of page eight there 's a golden rule for presenting is use three themes . |
| 18 | Rafeedie dismissed the case against Alvarez as " the wildest speculation " and rebuked the DEA for having been complicit in the abduction of Alvarez when there was nothing but circumstantial evidence to suggest that he had participated in Camarena 's torture or death . |
| 19 | And sir the other strand which we 've heard a good deal about has been the nature of the vegetative screen which occurs between D thirty nine and D forty on the one hand , and land to the north of it on the other . |
| 20 | Some of the biggest mistakes are made by people who think that the only horse worth buying is one of at least 16.2hh ; it 's a kind of snobbery than can often misfire . |
| 21 | A further small study worth making is a genealogical one . |
| 22 | Their cash bonus for winning is the same as England players will receive if they proceed to the finals of the competition in America in 1994 . |
| 23 | Ignoring for the moment the force of the word ‘ really ’ in this argument , we can still feel confident that even if we give up talking of knowledge , granting that a necessary condition for knowing is unfulfilled , we can happily continue to talk about justified belief , distinguishing some beliefs as justified or as more justified than others and others as less justified or even completely unjustified . |
| 24 | The considerably lower activity found in malignant ascites may explain why coagulopathy after shunting is less pronounced in this group of patients . |
| 25 | Equally , regularity and evenness of knotting are crucial to the structural and compositional integrity of a rug : the knot-count should be the same throughout the entire rug and the rows straight and uniformly spaced . |
| 26 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 27 | A great deal of interviewing is done by approaching people in the street or by knocking on people 's doors . |
| 28 | Handkerchiefs held in place by the nose clips of sunglasses alleviated some of the worst effects but the speed of burning was staggering . |
| 29 | He went on , however , to accuse the President of having been a habitual cocaine user in the 1970s , and of attempting to seduce his ( Pedro 's ) wife . |
| 30 | Personal idiosyncracies are not relevant here : what really matter are those sentiments and axiomatic patterns of thought and action which come , as we would say ‘ naturally ’ , as a result of having been brought up or ‘ socialized ’ in a particular society and culture . |