Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 2 | It is fairly easy to envisage the value of human acts as being capable of definitions falling on , above or below a neutral line between good and evil . |
| 3 | ‘ The idea came from speaking to businessmen who had missed important meetings after being stuck in a cab in heavy traffic , ’ says Cave . |
| 4 | The Christians soon acquired a reputation even among the pagans for being generous with their money ; they thought it better to give than to enquire too closely into the merits of the recipients , and were therefore occasionally easy game for confidence tricksters . |
| 5 | Lyons flies out to Brunei this week to take charge of the national team less than six months after being surplus to requirements at Huddersfield Town . |
| 6 | What we are really talking about of course is entitlement — sharing the privileges of being able to be in touch with other cultures . |
| 7 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 8 | If we allow 200 msecs per spoken word , on average , then the human listener can require up to 7 words before being sure of an interpretation . |
| 9 | There are only a few societies where all members hold the same characteristics to be applicable to everyone . |
| 10 | Could I ask readers to be aware of the need for on-going social education amongst our young people by encouraging discussion not simply about ‘ schooling ’ ( though this is important too ) . |
| 11 | Over half of teachers found the LEA guidelines to be useful for writing the report ; a quarter had found them not very useful and a fifth were unsure about this . |
| 12 | Like the values for Young 's modulus or stiffness , the figures vary a great deal between different substances , but then , so do the strengths of the chemical bonds within them and one might expect the engineering strengths to be proportional to the strengths of the chemical bonds . |
| 13 | Certain public transactions , notably where the firm is making an offer on behalf of its client , require funds to be available in a specific currency at a specific time and place . |
| 14 | Conventionality and Contrast together allow speakers to be consistent from one occasion to the next in their uses of the conventional meanings assigned to linguistic forms , and to maintain the same form-meaning pairings over time . |
| 15 | Opportunities to be creative as an architect are limited , so many look for other artistic challenges , she explained . |
| 16 | In 1661 , when C. N. Lesle published on the mobility of the earth , he was considered by fellow clergy to be guilty of a dangerous departure . |
| 17 | However , we do not expect our computers to be capable of experiencing emotions , even though emotions are clearly a fundamental part of human intelligence . |
| 18 | There were no significant differences between the total , autonomic , and neuroglycopenic scores reported by subjects to be important to them at the beginning of a hypoglycaemic attack or later during its progression . |
| 19 | And as we 've been singing we just want those words to be true in our experience . |
| 20 | Standing beside Josh in the wings , she was barely aware of the play being acted out just a few feet away , too caught up in the playwright 's words to be aware of anything else . |
| 21 | New instructions this year are encouraging umpires to be strict in their interpretation of what constitutes a shot when playing against the spinners . |
| 22 | I am trying to encourage our branches to be systematic about identifying and recording departure applications and other cases where it seems planning guidance and officers ' advice is being ignored . |
| 23 | Xoren Computing Ltd , based in London , has announced version 2 of its Multi-Poll polling software package for a central host VAX computer : the software enables personal computers , Unix systems and VAXes at multiple remote branches to be telephone-polled by the central host , and is being targeted at vertical markets including retailing , distribution and banking ; new enhancements include procedures for setting up site details , lists of files to be transferred , modem details and re-try procedures , and reports and performance statistics ; no word yet on any prices for it . |
| 24 | I believe there are enough pictures to represent this School adequately in three collections , as I would naturally expect the best of post-World War I British pictures to be present in the new Modern Art Museum . |
| 25 | So it 's very very easy in that context for adults to exploit children 's compliance and er it 's easy for kids to be able to not refuse adults ' advances and I suppose that 's why there 's this business about erm y'know it 's it 's not possible for kids to give informed consent to sex . |
| 26 | These results are consistent with the findings of Chowdhury and Kreitman ( 1971 ) , and Kreitman and Chowdhury ( 1973a ) , who found attempted suicide patients and Samaritan clients to be different in many respects — the Samaritan clients , for example , including a greater proportion of men , and more socially isolated individuals . |
| 27 | If one accepts that comparable hypotheses may explain differential phenomenology ( such as the different experiences of motion-perception previously described ) , then his work shows that it is in principle possible for a creature incapable of experiencing distinct shapes to be aware of motion and to ascribe it correctly to an individual object . |
| 28 | The Commissioner considers the quality of decisions by Social Fund Inspectors to be high with around 90% reaching the ‘ high quality standard required ’ . |
| 29 | On the other hand the public would want inspectors to be independent of the school being inspected . |
| 30 | Our results showed concentrations to be identical for transcripts of mitochondrial genes unaffected by mutation , but lower for transcripts of affected mitochondrial genes in the mutant . |