Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The necessity to obtain planning permission or not is untouched , but any works which will affect the character of the listed building require listed building consent in addition to any planning permission . |
| 2 | Well it 's certainly true that there were ideological differences but whether those were the reason for the split or not is a er is a , is a moot question and I suspect not . |
| 3 | Conception of oneself as a housewife or not is liable to influence a woman 's behaviour in a variety of ways . |
| 4 | An hour or so was spent drafting a new outline for this second approach on the mysteries of the Coniunctio and , when she was satisfied that its thread was strong enough to guide her through the maze , she took up again the pursuit of Mercurius through the bridal-chambers of the mind . |
| 5 | Nick , who had feared a torridly emotional hour or so was relieved by this ; grateful , he had shared half a bottle of brandy with Martin and told him a great deal about the behaviour of adolescents in certain African tribes , a safe subject , and one he was apt to enlarge on when drunk . |
| 6 | As our papers were in English and not German , we spent the next hour or so being rejected , first at Gate One and then at Gate Six . |
| 7 | These organisations are ready and willing to accept your work and reproduce it to a significantly higher quality that you can achieve with a page printer such as Apple 's LaserWriter or even AM Varityper 's VT 600 . |
| 8 | Whether the Crown should have an interest in sentence or not is , of course , another matter . |
| 9 | Jagger apparently turned up unannounced and ‘ did n't want to take part in the interview or even be photographed with his children . ’ |
| 10 | He tried talking but the teachers would n't listen and thought he was repeating words like a parrot or just being cheeky . |
| 11 | If it is lying in the open , free of vegetation , it may become weathered ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ) but a more likely outcome for small mammal bone is that it will either be stepped on and broken beyond recognition or simply be blown away by wind . |
| 12 | Later on , a contest that really was straightforward , but first with the all the sport , here 's Tim . |
| 13 | Anticipated grief through expecting to lose something can , then , be a very powerful emotion that again is very common and widely experienced . |
| 14 | If this was how things worked , just about every war veteran that ever was would ‘ inevitably ’ end up homeless because of their past . |
| 15 | A dish-cloth that once was a semmit … . |
| 16 | Just picking up on an item on page fourteen about the externalization programme that obviously is going straight through the process er and should be resolved in the next week or so . |
| 17 | Even in the depths of her distress Meryl recognised with bitter irony that here was someone else with the facile professional kindness that doctors developed . |
| 18 | For a moment it crossed his mind that here was his bargaining card . |
| 19 | But , whether the woman had been heavily accented or not , Fabia felt a small let-up in her tension that here was someone who spoke her own tongue . |
| 20 | It could be the sour smell of misfortune rather than the suspicion that he does n't know what he really wants which could mock the prediction that here is the next Conservative Prime Minister but one . ’ |
| 21 | When Grimes steps into the witness box , the veiled string texture and weary cross-rhythms in the bass tell us before he has opened his mouth that here is a man who will not fit into conventional social patterns . |
| 22 | At one stage the text was altered in an attempt to make lines 15 and 16 clear ; these lines are ambiguous as they stand , and can be taken as approving of ‘ the light that never was , etc . ’ |
| 23 | If he had been a painter at that time , he would not have produced a picture like Beaumont 's storm scene ( 'different from this ' — this picture , line 18 ) ; he would have reproduced the tranquillity and the smiling sea , and added ‘ the light that never was ’ — the Poet 's illusions . |
| 24 | Road No 10 from Schupfheim leads to another attractive village , Escholzmatt , still in canton Luzern although hereabout is the watershed between the Englebuch valley and the Emmental proper . |
| 25 | Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews . |
| 26 | In 1972 he was appointed Honorary President of the Danish Cricket Association and later was most happy and proud to accept the MCC 's invitation to become an Honorary Life Member . |
| 27 | He 's therefore been stuck , living on er friends ' floors for the last few weeks , not being able to go back to his girlfriend and not being able to see his children , er and Madam that 's had an effect on his , on his business as well . |
| 28 | ‘ This is a continuing government-to-government deal and thus is entirely legitimate . ’ |
| 29 | Those under study are aware they are part of a short-run experiment and therefore are less likely to act ‘ naturally ’ and signal their long-run responses . |
| 30 | Herr Alpeter , addressing a meeting in England , was asked what happened to dogs who did not fulfil the required standard for breeding in Germany ( a dog can win in the show ring and still be useless for breeding ) . |