Example sentences of "[subord] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that they show little grief does not mean they are unmoved , but they may have been less inclined than are many women to see their relationship with their partner as the fulcrum of their lives . |
| 2 | A rather higher proportion of temporary workers are self-employed than are all workers ( 15 per cent compared to 11 per cent ) . |
| 3 | For it seems likely that some signifying structures are more easily articulated to the interests of one group than are some others ; similarly , that they are more easily articulated to the interests of one group than to those of another . |
| 4 | The inability to confirm this well-known fact has not spoilt the sudden acceptance of the placebo as something with at least a false concrete explanation rather than being some form of gothic magic about which it is better not to speak . |
| 5 | But one speaker 's attempt at the patois may be closer to the standard end of the spectrum than is another speaker 's attempt at the standard . |
| 6 | A reminder that if you are going to the game , of course if is all tickets , so you must get your tickets from Oxford United before setting off on Tuesday evening . |
| 7 | Authority is simply the useful mask of power , as are all justifications and legitimations of elite rule based upon the presumed or manipulated consent of the ruled . |
| 8 | His representation of Jocasta was , as are all representations , incomplete ; and his behaviour was driven by this representation of the woman not by some physical fact about the world . |
| 9 | Many are noisy , dirty , and uninformed , as are many adults , but they may be bright and attractive people at the same time . |
| 10 | She was not lively as are many girls of eighteen . |
| 11 | More recently , artists such as Boldini , De Nittis , Segantini , Zandomeneghi and the Macchiaioli have become better known in the States , but Palagi , Favretto , Hayez and Toma are virtually unrecognised , as are many others . |
| 12 | As a result both agencies have to continue claiming that Russia is facing terrible threats from the West and therefore that their existence is essential despite the fact that Gorbachev is busily telling the Russian people that co-existence is not only possible but desirable as are many aspects of capitalist society . |
| 13 | This fish is not very active during the day as are most Plecs , but again does venture over the whole aquarium at night . |
| 14 | Most racket games are good examples , as are some ball games such as football . |
| 15 | Clay figurines are also made , but they are mostly styleless work ( as are some bronzes ) , toys or cheap offerings . |
| 16 | Most Japanese papers traditionally are made in this way , as are some printmaking papers . |
| 17 | ( iv ) The provisions containing any restrictions on taking leave , and those relating to the calculation of pay during annual leave and on general or public holidays , are contained in the Scheme of Conditions of Service , as are any provisions relating to accrued holiday pay |
| 18 | ‘ Newspaper sale prediction is open to wide margins of error , as are any sale predictions … primarily because the quality of the product will change from week to week depending on the available content , the number of editorial pages and so on . ’ |
| 19 | Evans ( 1971 ) properly defines vocational education as being that education which makes a person more employable in one occupation than others . |
| 20 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 21 | If he was the sort who enjoyed playing the field then she might have understood , but he did n't strike her as being that type at all . |
| 22 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |
| 23 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |
| 24 | Care was identified as being those activities which one person did for another ; informal care consisted of practical care , information/advocacy , links with the outside world , regular surveillance , social integration ( belonging to a group or having a satisfying role in relation to others ) and affection . |
| 25 | Davies ( 1989 ) sees these as being those courses which pay insufficient attention to practical probation issues , such as resource management , penology , criminology , criminal law , principles of sentencing and other issues . |
| 26 | Vibration is generally accepted as being another word for energy . |
| 27 | But at the same time he has an acute sense of her as being more than the object of his perception , as being another subjectivity , a self which is not his own self . |
| 28 | of course our members er of which we 've got a hundred and twenty three thousand , flood the lines into Luton wanted to know what happens they imagined a surplus as being some pot of er big tub of notes that they can dip it and we can dip into , but of course the surpluses have been used basically by British Telecom in particular for funding early retirement schemes er we 're in no way in knowledge whether the money 's every been paid back . |
| 29 | Experts are often loosely described as being some kind of arbitrator . |
| 30 | In the earlier stages I knew the denial to be conscious and saw it as being some sort of test of my will . |