Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if any words could be found in the Statute which provided that besides paying Income Tax on income people should pay for advantages or emoluments in its wider sense ( such as I think the word " emoluments " here , has not , for reasons to be presently given ) , there is no doubt of Mr Tennant 's possession of a material advantage , which made his salary of higher value to him than if he did not possess it , and upon the hypothesis which I have just indicated , would be taxable accordingly . |
| 2 | It seemed early for Mum to be back but I did n't think anything of it . |
| 3 | Since money is seen as one component of total wealth , we can expect the demand for money to be directly related to total wealth so long as money is regarded as a ‘ normal good ’ by wealth-holders. ( b ) Rates of return on financial assets ( R ) . |
| 4 | Now denoting the nominal demand for money by MD , we can write in functional form : unc A simplified version of this function can be obtained by using real national income ( Y ) as an indicator of total wealth and by assuming that h is constant and that the function is homogeneous of the first degree in P. We can then write the real demand for money as : unc Monetarists generally believe the demand for money to be fairly unresponsive to interest rate changes ( and this is supported by empirical evidence ) . |
| 5 | An international mountaineering conference in Katmandu , Nepal , has heard demands for climbers to be periodically barred from much of the Himalayas in an effort to limit their impact on the fragile mountain environment . |
| 6 | It reinforces the need for ex-employees to be very careful not to use non-literal elements from programs they have written for previous employers . |
| 7 | We were n't prepared for Texas to be quite so — er , Texan . |
| 8 | There 's a site to which this Society objected on Wetherby Road in Harrogate which we thought did n't need developing at all , but in practice the District Council decided they wanted it for industry because it considered the need for industry to be so great and we have along this frontage of Wetherby Road a row of three car showrooms and a token spot of industry behind it . |
| 9 | Look for opportunities to be more loving each day — not just with your loved ones , but in every moment of the day . |
| 10 | It is in the purchaser 's interests for dismissals to be as early as possible but the vendor runs the clear risk that the sale may not complete . |
| 11 | What Athens presumably wanted , for pollution could be got rid of , was for the Megarians to vow an expensive building or pay some humiliatingly large fine ( thus acknowledging Athenian ascendancy ) , for the ‘ chief malefactors ’ , i.e. the anti-Athenians , to be hounded out , and for Megara to be quietly absorbed into Athens ' sphere of influence . |
| 12 | Vocabulary explores words and the learning process in the context of the learner 's thinking and feeling , and its activities are based on the premise that depth of experience and personal interaction are necessary for words to be permanently acquired . |
| 13 | I think that what she really wants is for words to be more like numbers . |
| 14 | It is my view , of course , that we have no such idea , and no need of it , since we do not take condition-sets for effects to be merely " enough " for them in the given sense . |
| 15 | It is also important to note , furthermore , that while the external labour market may act as an incentive for directors to be more diligent , it is not obvious that it will improve the position where they lack flair or are simply inept . |
| 16 | Basildon is indeed well placed to take advantage of the single market , but it is important for companies to be well prepared . |
| 17 | However , there was still a long way to go for Spain to be fully integrated into the world concert of nations ; indeed , this was not possible while Franco lived . |
| 18 | In the event , catering and laundry work was not a field in which private sector contractors made many successful bids , and there was a tendency for bids to be less serious or successful in northern areas than in the South ( Mohan , 1988a ) . |
| 19 | Instead of finding Whites had more favourable attitudes to the police than Blacks , and had been stopped , etc. , less ( as found in the studies of larger areas ) , we found that on some measures Whites were similar to Blacks in their attitude and experience , though there was still a tendency for Blacks to be less favourable to the police . |
| 20 | The main requirement is for each degree of differentiation to be clearly demarcated from others in the eyes of buyers and for each firm to be the lowest-cost producer within each category . |
| 21 | Men , dusty people and folk of diverse devices , people of business and of leisure , folk of the frontiers and foreign men … trackers of beasts and of seasons , breakers of camp in the little dawn wind , seekers of water and watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world , O seekers , O finders of reasons to be up and be gone … |
| 22 | In consequence , one should not expect the discourse of racism to be necessarily marked by the ponderous unsubtlety of thought described by Adorno et al . |
| 23 | Sometimes , as in the case of a foreign or inter-state trip , the youngster may just not be old enough or experienced enough to cope , but at other times they may not be showing enough sense of responsibility to be safely granted privileges . |
| 24 | They imagine that they have believed in God because faith is rational — which it is — but they then expect every aspect of faith to be equally open to rational investigation — which it is n't . |
| 25 | The proposal in the review is that you probably will need to keep your joint care teams , your JCTs , which tend of course to be professionally and officer dominated , but there are strong feelings throughout the county , and one has to remember the run up to local government , erm , the local government commission is on , strong feelings especially from the voluntary sector , but also from the district councils , that there could be renewed dynamism at the local level , in terms of local care teams . |
| 26 | It has been argued persuasively that passages from the Bible which had been taken as prohibiting gay sex were either mistranslated or taken out of context ; that , in any case , the Bible could not be read as a set of rules to be unthinkingly obeyed ; that love and justice in sexual relationships mattered more than gender ; and that homophobia itself was sinful . |
| 27 | I think they 're a heap of shit to be quite honest ! |
| 28 | ‘ To be sure you did , ’ said his colleagues , ‘ and is n't that the way of Druids to be so squashing . |
| 29 | cos it 's a lot of money to be perfectly honest |
| 30 | Yet neither the Foreign Office nor No10 wished the impotency of Parliament to be so well advertised . |