Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Providing opportunity for this to be ‘ played out ’ in the security of the school can be of help . |
| 2 | Referring clinicians gave permission for this to be carried out and the study was approved by the local Hospital Ethical Committee . |
| 3 | That is true , but if somebody applied for planning permission tomorrow or a or a renewal of planning permission , it would be difficult if not impossible to refuse permission for those to be committed . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , they are sometimes too short of money for this to be possible . |
| 5 | Even the article in the local paper had seemed on a quick glance through earlier to be all right . |
| 6 | The idea was that light waves traveled at a speed of 186,000 miles a second through the ether , which meant that an observer who was at rest relative to the ether would measure the speed of light to be about 186,000 miles a second , but an observer who was moving through the ether would measure a higher or lower speed . |
| 7 | The Annual Closed Week at the beginning of October enables a formal programme of stock-checking to be carried out : in October 1990 a total of 46,182 volumes were thoroughly checked . |
| 8 | With a number of stocks going ex-dividend , market-makers estimated the combined effect of this to be a 6½ point knock to the Footsie . |
| 9 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 10 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , and you should be able to see the bottom of the rear tyres of the car in front to be able to manoeuvre round it if need be . |
| 12 | Even if one assumed the uptake of Ac-ASA to be the total measured drug , including the adherent component ( 30.7 nmol/g dry weight ) , it would still be significantly inferior to the uptake of 5-ASA . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it would be kind of nice to be a grandfather . |
| 14 | ‘ The reason that they 're sparse is because when I 'm singing it 's kind of hard to be very rhythmic , so it 's the voice first and the guitar parts fitting around that , with the whole thing being locked together by a pretty solid and very basic groove . ’ |
| 15 | The population of this delightful little town was estimated in the official census of 1894 to be 19,722 , most of them Martiniquians — a hybrid mixture of creole , mulatto , negro and coolie — with a few French government officials and civil servants . |
| 16 | So the Fosse Way , which at one time had been the main road from medieval Coventry to Leicester , was ordered in the Sharnford award of 1765 to be ‘ of the same width as it hath heretofore usually been ’ . |
| 17 | On Jan. 31 the Executive Yuan approved an ambitious six-year development plan for 1991-96 to be financed in part by a massive flotation of government bonds . |
| 18 | There are no general regulations in the UK governing the type of medium to be used for archival recording , although some regulations stipulate additional conditions for electronic records ; and certain authorities have the right to require that their approval is obtained before a company relies exclusively on electronic records , for example : |
| 19 | The delegates also agreed that ( i ) during this interim period , President César Gaviria Trujillo should rule by decree aided by a committee of 18 to be elected by the Assembly on July 2 ; ( ii ) current government ministers and delegates of the Constituent Assembly would be barred from running for office ; and ( iii ) congressmen serving three or four consecutive terms would , in the future , be declared ineligible for further office but this norm would not be retroactive . |
| 20 | However , common sense dictates that for a boy of 14 to be away from home and unsupported with no income , home or friends , is a very serious , vulnerable and lonely situation for him to be in , especially when this is for a period of three months . |
| 21 | But identifying the principal active ingredient of alcoholic drinks was a vital step forward in that it allowed the quantity of intoxicant to be measured accurately , always the first step in any proper study of drugs and their actions . |
| 22 | The continuing spell of dry weather in much of eastern Britain has caused recharge to groundwater in the winter of 1990/91 to be much less than normal , and groundwater levels are greatly depressed in consequence , particularly in the Chalk of East Anglia . |
| 23 | You would not expect a well-made machine like this to be light , and at 2.8kg ( 6.2lb ) it is n't , so you need the two handles moulded into the case of the machine to help hold it . |
| 24 | Here then first is a passage from Epictetus to be contrasted with the story of Hamza by Rumi . |
| 25 | Digital 's vice-president for manufacturing and logistics , Edward McDonough , said changes in the world computer market and the need for Digital to be close to its major customers — Britain is its largest single market in Europe — were the reason for cutting the Irish plant . |
| 26 | The order for maintenance sounds as if it is something which will be enforced in specie ; yet in fact there is neither good reason to believe this , nor any need for that to be done . |
| 27 | There is no need for Labour to be ashamed of its defence record , although the Conservative document ’ Britain 's Defence : Unsafe in Labour 's hands ’ gives the impression that a Labour Government would destroy the Navy , devastate the Army and demolish the Royal Air Force . |
| 28 | But there was a real need for this to be done nationally . |
| 29 | The phrase ‘ no action shall be brought ’ is too specific a reference to legal process for that to be a tenable construction . |
| 30 | A great deal of the blame must be laid at the feet of those who link regression with occult activities or treat it as some sort of parlour-trick to be practised for fun at parties . |