Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best leaves for smoking are things like oak or beech . |
| 2 | The leading case on exclusion of liability for negligence is Smith v Bush ; Harris v Wyre Forest DC [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 . |
| 3 | The primary mechanism of arterial haemostasis for epinephrine is compression of the artery in the serosal space . |
| 4 | This leading award for photography is part of the EPICA Awards — the top creative awards for Europe . |
| 5 | The severest market penalty for under-performance is loss of office following corporate collapse , or , more probably , a change in control . |
| 6 | Emphasising the judgement that the job was considerably worse after automation are quotes from both management and operators . |
| 7 | His desperate shouts for help were herd by three local men . |
| 8 | Using a solvent , the conditions , for synthesis are temperatures of about 1 600 K and pressures of about 60 000 atmospheres . |
| 9 | The publication of UPDATE is part of the information dissemination strategy and a number of SCOTVEC staff have spoken to groups of college staff about the ACDP . |
| 10 | Another concept Paul uses that speaks of progress is growth into maturity ( Eph. 4.14–15 ) . |
| 11 | As such , its loss of support was part of the continuing legacy of the Fitzgerald inquiry into corruption within the Queensland government , where the Nationals had been in power for 30 years until defeated in 1989 . |
| 12 | The Communist change of heart was part of a broader reorientation on the left . |
| 13 | Actual fact degrees of freedom is N minus K. |
| 14 | The act of firing was liberation to him . |
| 15 | To maintain that the content of literature is part of a system of signs with a structure of its own , independent of the ‘ real ’ world , is clearly to maintain that it is in theory analyzable in the same way as its language ; but in practice a ready-made set of conceptual tools is simply not available . |
| 16 | He has also of course been Chairman of the Sekers Group for a number of years . |
| 17 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 18 | Sometimes is , and here of course is conflict between and married partners . |
| 19 | There must of course be provision for retaining information about the interrupted sequence of instructions , so that processing can continue from the point at which the interruption took place . |
| 20 | There will of course be refreshments for all callers and the range of merchandise will be the most comprehensive available . |
| 21 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |
| 22 | As mentioned earlier , the most common form of resistance is stiffness in the back . |
| 23 | The loss of enthusiasm is death of the soul , and means that growth has stopped . |
| 24 | The failure to engage in that kind of self-reflection was part of a self-assurance over the wider common culture . |
| 25 | He could not possibly have been confident that McKenna would refuse : the former Chancellor 's three days of hesitation is proof against this . |
| 26 | Thru reveals that many structuralist theories of narrative are simulacra of the story we have all internalized of the constitution of subjectivity through the reification of women . |
| 27 | Purists argue that science should be precise , and that standardisation of terminology is part of this precision , but I think it has been a retrograde step . |
| 28 | The UK trade deficit of £1 billion plus in the depths of recession is testament to our insatiable appetite for , mainly Japanese , imports . |
| 29 | You and some other Members of Parliament are residents of Westminster . |
| 30 | Now , so , the name of the actual Act of Parliament is Sale of Goods Act er and that 's the law that gives you and me and everybody in Britain our basic rights every time we buy something from a shop or in a sale or a market stall or by post through a mail order catalogue . |