Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] be " in BNC.

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1 Danger , from the Piaroa point of view , is from the predatory activities of beings from other worlds , and the responsibility for protection from them is in the hands of the shamanic ruwatu .
2 Individual approaches recognize either the school or the classroom as the significant unit for change and ideally take both into account , for change in one is unlikely to happen without change in the other ( Easen , 1985 ; Slater , 1985 ) .
3 This group is often seen as part of what is termed the ‘ triple alliance ’ between TNCs , the local bourgeoisie , and the state bureaucracy .
4 And if for the time being , that 's a high price , then that is one of the things that we 've got to accept as part of what 's going on in the Gulf , however painful that may be .
5 Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ?
6 The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy .
7 In the nine-acre arboretum , as part of it was called , each species and variety was represented by a well-grown display specimen and a stock of smaller plants for sale .
8 Another discovery he claimed was that of a cure for glanders : one horse had remained ‘ cured ’ for four years after treatment with what was popularly known as ‘ Sewell 's Blue Broth ’ — three ounces of copper sulphate in a quart of water .
9 I shall make sure that I send him a copy of my speech tomorrow , which will give detail after detail of what is actually taking place in the valleys .
10 Other items might be delegated , with the LEA acting as judge of which are best passed to the school 's control and which need to be held centrally .
11 These duties had to be fulfilled alongside those of his conventional publishing business , and he was also supposed to be writing a scene for inclusion in what was to be a filmed version of Murder in the Cathedral .
12 But the best form of support for her is of course to be found in the framework of an affectionate and united family who will make sure that she is not too lonely and can help her to rebuild her social life .
13 Hence national levels of support for what is essentially a late-secondary or post-secondary programme , the local organization which supports it and the commitment of teachers who contribute to it at more than one level — all these matter .
14 Identification with the team and engaging in the correct patterns of support for it are sufficient .
15 In seeking to equip and help both amateurs and professionals in their work as church musicians , they offer a ray of hope in what is , overall , a fairly sombre picture .
16 A quantity of dance-music for it is preserved , imperfectly , in the so-called ‘ Walsingham Consort Books ’ of approximately the same date , and the combination is depicted accompanying the wedding masque in the Henry Unton memorial painting of a few years later .
17 We can recognise a ‘ dull load ’ as a sign of indigestion through its being located in the stomach , since previous stomach-located ‘ dull loads ’ have occurred in conjunction with the other things which go to make up indigestion .
18 This is the kind of stipulation that could make the job of deciding on ‘ satisfactory ’ levels of noise in what is left of industrial Britain a lot easier .
19 What I 'm really searching for is a bit more evidence from the C , all participants as to why the principle of expanding an exis existing settlement has been rejected , I well appreciate that those who lived in the settlement that was chosen would not like it , but that 's not the point I 'm getting at , is there nothing in this principle of building on what 's there ?
20 The scientist is motivated by a passion for what is true and a sense of responsibility towards what is true .
21 The effectiveness of the second vote depends of course on its being assessed on a national basis , not in separate constituencies .
22 It all depends of course on what is meant by ‘ the feminine ’ .
23 And er he , of course with him being a blacksmith , he could get a job anywhere in America , he says he could leave a town tonight and land in another town , he says and he could be sure of getting a job with him being a blacksmith .
24 And of course with it being heavier than air it does tell you it can give a nasty headache , cause drowsiness , etcetera etcetera .
25 Much depends of course upon what is meant by ‘ success ’ as well as by ‘ policy ’ and ‘ planning ’ .
26 The very next piece of text in it is the song ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , which is not in the score — though we know it was sung in the 1692 production because it is in the Select Songs .
27 ‘ Our members have a great deal of sympathy with what is being done and they would not encourage tests to be taken by supply teachers or other teachers , especially at primary school level . ’
28 Politically speaking the issue of local autonomy and sovereignty scarcely ever arose : people recognized popular committees as valuable means of access to resources ; in their democratic aspect most educated Libyans thought of them as rhetorical devices , not really conferring power on a community , but representing curious elaborations of ideology in what was really a simple and straightforward problem of administration of services .
29 They come to us because the manufacturer or retailer wishes to take advantage of exposure in what is simply the best and biggest fishkeeping magazine in the UK .
30 well that 's quite understandable and we 're talking here about four thousand pounds , it 's a lot of money to anybody is n't it ?
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