Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , rhyme and metre are forms of equivalence which distinguish a very great deal of poetry , yet nowadays few would maintain that the presence of either or both is a necessary and sufficient condition for defining a text as poetic . |
| 2 | There are forms of dance which we all admit as forms of art : for example , classical ballet . |
| 3 | There are forms of care which are absent , certain kinds of intimacy , and friendship , no touching , for instance , but it 's compensated by other kinds of care which are possible and not risky . |
| 4 | They also agreed that classes are aggregates of people who are distinguishable by one or by a combination of the following : wealth , occupation , manners , standard of living , power , material possessions . |
| 5 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 6 | Having been Chairman of BNFL I would like to contribute as a Chairman in the future … and that , I believe , is how I can make my best contribution . |
| 7 | However , numerous external small cracks or a single large crack are signs of movement which need expert investigation by a structural engineer . |
| 8 | There undoubtedly are cases of parents who exaggerate their child 's ills , and who are determined to blame them on some physical cause , when family . |
| 9 | A fuller discussion of international aspects takes place in Chapter 7 , but it is worth noting that there are cases of companies who entered into export agency agreements when they were small and exporting was relatively unimportant to them . |
| 10 | Conversely , a significant proportion of the companies operating in this country are off-shoots of enterprises whose head offices are situated abroad . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place ! |
| 12 | And for everybody whose joined after , I think it was last January , we make sure that there is a job description , and that they are given one when they join , and we keep on file erm , but I know that there are loads of people who have been here longer than that some people have got them and they are out of date . |
| 13 | I bet there are loads of people I could get on with . |
| 14 | For example , there are mutations in mice which cause abnormalities in limb development , such as reduction in digit number , but there is no simple or direct way to isolate the genes which are responsible . |
| 15 | Firstly , mid-classes are groups of phonemes which are easily confused at an acoustic-phonetic stage of processing : thus and are grouped into one mid-class , since [ m ] and [ n ] are are often nearly identical from an acoustic point of view . |
| 16 | He does not deny that there are groups of workers who are intermediate between these two classes , but he argues that they do not constitute a fully developed class . |
| 17 | What you have are groups of people who display superficially similar symptoms for a variety of different reasons . |
| 18 | In every community there are groups of people who help form your opinions about a whole range of things . |
| 19 | In the Marxist view , ‘ classes ’ are groups of people who share the same relationship to the means and organisation of production . |
| 20 | It is arguable that differences in attitude between worker and management — ‘ us and them ’ — are inevitable while there are groups of people who carry those labels ; the great divide is too much a fact of organisational life , part of the fabric of ‘ norms , that each new recruit is taught . |
| 21 | Hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs ) and hydrofluorocarbons ( HFCs ) are groups of chemicals which , because they contain hydrogen atoms , are being substituted for CFCs . |
| 22 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 23 | In order for the dialogue to function effectively , there are rules of procedure which all participants have to accept . |
| 24 | There are rules of interpretation which judges are said to follow and which prevent arbitrariness in the process , but in fact there are so many conflicting rules that judges are effectively free to choose which to follow . |
| 25 | There are dicta in Vestey which indicate that Herdman v IRC may not be good law , but it is felt that the Revenue probably have the better argument on a simple reading of the legislation . |
| 26 | In view of this complementary relationship of grammar and lexis , it is not surprising to find that there are units of meaning which are intermediary between lexical words and grammatical structures , the existence of which again indicates that there is a continuum between these levels of language . |
| 27 | As Feynman has said , we are asked to believe that the historian who makes a statement about Napoleon simply means that there are books in libraries which make assertions similar to his own . |
| 28 | These are lists of choices you are offered at certain points . |
| 29 | These components are characteristics of speech which are constantly present and observable while speech is going on . |
| 30 | Such a statement implies that there are aspects of poetry which may not be so easily teachable . |