Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask the Minister to do one more thing for those millions of families , many of whom are part of that 250,000 who are more than six months in arrears with their mortgage repayments , who fear that their homes will be taken from them and who have paid the poll tax . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , each of the opposing groups had their own skinhead supporters , most of whom were part of a skinhead revival . |
| 3 | All the scenes she made out of nothing were part of another , more insidious pleasure she was experiencing : she wanted to see how much punishment he would take , how long he would go on bowing his head . |
| 4 | We had a good ride — quite a hard one , I had difficulty keeping up , though towards the end they were getting noticably slower ! — and we were then invited to one of them 's house for breakfast . |
| 5 | I think she felt wi , you know , some of them are sort of like , a bit unimportant . |
| 6 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 7 | Jane Wright who runs the centre says a common factor to all of them is trouble in forming relationships . |
| 8 | So I should think both of them were apostrophe before the so you got |
| 9 | There is no evidence of their being part of any coherent overall design . |
| 10 | Such a project is under way in Gabon , the tropical forests of which are home to an estimated 70,000 elephants — believed to be Africa 's largest undisturbed population . |
| 11 | If not , then it is no business of the police to maintain files , to intercept telephone calls and to examine mail , all of which are part of the government 's business when laws are broken or threatened , and only then , under the very restrictive provisions of the law . |
| 12 | This was an important new step , the immediate advantages of which are involvement in all aspects of teacher training , instead of only in the training of secondary school teachers with which the Department of Educational Studies was previously concerned , and the broadening of the University 's own activities in accordance with the general changes now taking place in higher education . |
| 13 | Listed buildings have , however , a few advantages , not least of which is freedom from VAT in respect of major works of repair or renovation . |
| 14 | The most valuable book is the one already mentioned , the full title of which is Handbook of Dates for Students of English History edited by C.R. Cheney . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a security measure and it will continue for some time , ’ said a police spokesman , who revealed that the roads , one of which is part of the main Clogher to Omagh Road , had been closed under a Secretary of State 's Order . |
| 16 | They 'll play five limited over matches in and around Pretoria all of which is music to the ears of the South Africans . |
| 17 | One aspect of the contra proferentem rule is that , if there is more than one possible head of liability one of which is liability for negligence , then an exemption clause will not be interpreted as excluding liability for negligence unless it does so in clear terms . |
| 18 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 19 | The 1950s resembled the 1920s experience with a roughly equal balance of public and private construction , almost all of which was suburbanization by addition and which produced 3732 dwellings . |
| 20 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 21 | Both denied struggle for power as an agent of social change , but accepted the necessity of evolution , the logical consequence of which was belief in the centrality of parliamentarianism . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , there remains the issue of the ‘ popular front ’ and the ‘ united front ’ against fascism — both of which were anathema to a Labour Party hostile to the Communist Party . |
| 23 | Fig. 10 includes large proportions of rabbits and birds , neither of which were part of the comparative fauna obtained by trapping , so that the two samples appear very dissimilar . |
| 24 | v. Commission of the European Communities ( Joined Cases 154/78 , 205/78 , 206/78 , 226/78 , 227/78 , 228/78 , 263/78 , 264/78 , 31/79 , 39/79 , 83/79 , 85/79 ) [ 1980 ] E.C.R. 907 that the guarantee afforded to the ownership of property did not extend to protect commercial interests , the uncertainties of which were part of the very essence of economic activity . |
| 25 | The ever-anxious Ford had been appointed to replace Major Richard Sharpe as commanding officer of the battalion , which of itself was cause for the Colonel to worry , for Joseph Ford was keenly aware that the Rifleman had been a most competent and experienced soldier . |
| 26 | She was sort of she was sort of erm a bit snobbish . |
| 27 | A precise use of imagination with regard to religion is that without it a person can quite easily not even consider the possibility of there being truth in religion . |
| 28 | I think peop it 's clear that that could be a very useful part of er of there being care in people 's homes . |
| 29 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 30 | It was the UK government 's refusal to accept the extension of this procedure that was the cause of it 's rejection of the Social Protocol . |