Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English were in fact trying to claim the authentic characteristics of a nation irrespective of how it was defined , including an attempt to cover English claims over Scotland and Ireland , despite the absence of any ‘ habit of unity ’ in the former case or of a shared language in the latter . |
| 2 | It argued that of the half million British troops overseas , 200,000 were in areas that did not create a foreign currency liability , and of the rest few were in areas requiring direct dollar expenditure ; ‘ it follows that the contribution to be made to the balance of payments problem by the withdrawal of troops in overseas theatres will be strictly limited , will apply only to those areas when there is at present a currency obligation , and will produce little or no direct dollar saving . ' |
| 3 | The French were in fact asking for 270 billion francs and it was hard to see how the distinction could be made between helping to improve the French position in Europe and the position in Vietnam . |
| 4 | This is of course to beg the question of where the dividing line between the interest of the nation state and that of the EEC is to be drawn . |
| 5 | This is of course exacerbated by the fact that they are now second hand . |
| 6 | This is of course reflected in increasing public admission costs to airshows . |
| 7 | This is of course having your cake and eating it , an achievement to which Kingston owed the enormous popularity of his naval as well as his other yarns . |
| 8 | The simplest way around this is for artists to get their assistants to sign over the reproduction rights before work begins . |
| 9 | This is for teachers to come in the evenings after school and erm work with computers and perhaps more important is discuss with each other how they 're using computers or whatever in , in their classes . |
| 10 | If it is thought to be preferable , this is for reasons having nothing to do with neutrality , such as a desire to bring the war to a speedy end or not to allow people to profit from wars . |
| 11 | because this is , this is mine , mine in my own na , this is my own building society , this is for children to do |
| 12 | The most effective way of doing this is for X to comply with the provisions of section 136 of the Law of Property Act 1925 , i.e. to give Y a written notice , signed by X , unconditionally assigning to Y all X 's rights as buyer under the contract of sale . |
| 13 | And this is despite Argos bombarding shoppers with a record 12.5 million catalogues . |
| 14 | This is despite efforts to increase indigenous oil production . |
| 15 | This is in contrast to ELT materials which , in various ways , take account of the needs of learners of the language . |
| 16 | This is in contrast to HWIM which designed individual interfaces for each of its components . |
| 17 | While the Gulf conflict has represented a huge drain on the organisation ( in the week prior to hostilities breaking out he had to spend £200,000 arranging coverage ) this is in part covered automatically . |
| 18 | This is in turn related to the ancient symbol of the River of Life , in which the course of human development is compared to the wanderings of a river from its source to its final merging with the sea . |
| 19 | This seems to suggest F major , but this is in turn contradicted by the F and D of the first violin . |
| 20 | The reason they do this is in order to link general criticisms of the capitalist economic system with a specific analysis of the poverty of the elderly , but in doing so they shift their point of reference . |
| 21 | And you 've got to educate the masses and perhaps instil erm more revolutionaries , sort of a more , a culture that actually sees that they 're not gon na gain just material benefits but how that this is in order to advance society forward . |
| 22 | This is in order to try to avoid the effects of subrogation , viz where the insurer pays out money to the landlord under an insurance policy he will be subrogated to any rights the landlord may have against the tenant for breaches of covenant which may have given rise to the damage or destruction . |
| 23 | The purest form of this is in ALT constructs with SKIP guards : for example ALT ( SKIP P , SKIP Q ) is a process that is free to behave like P or like Q , the choice depending neither on the environment nor on the program 's variables . |
| 24 | This is in effect saying that the policy makers for the public sector were indeterminate , at that time . |
| 25 | As this is in fact used as the Parish Burial Ground and not restricted to members of St Peter 's church they feel that responsibility for its upkeep should not be left to a relatively small number of volunteers . |
| 26 | The only way for it to look any different is for Michael to learn the bloody lines . |
| 27 | ‘ This was at Brands Hatch last autumn where Mark was fourth . |
| 28 | The point of all this was of course to reinforce the belief that the after-life was a paradise , even if only achievable with certainty through death in battle , and thus to improve the combativeness of the assassins . |
| 29 | Because of this , Marx took as one of his main tasks the understanding of how this system came into being , and this was in order to discover why this system had such power of the minds of those who operated it , whether exploiters or exploited . |
| 30 | This was in order to maintain the federal , not unitary , nature of the constitution . |