Example sentences of "[to-vb] be an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put it another way the obligation to deposit is an obligation of the tenant assumed by him qua tenant and it follows that the correlative obligation of the landlord is an obligation assumed by him qua landlord … |
| 2 | Perhaps the worst treatment Graham had to endure was an experiment with ultra-violet rays , carried out at the local hospital . |
| 3 | This also gives him an introduction to what he will later come to realise is an example of personal freedom . |
| 4 | To conclude that the universe exists because it permits us to exist is an act of faith , not reason . |
| 5 | Second , there appeared to have been an evening-out of change , with the mixed/pastoral farming areas recording similar rates of change to the arable areas , partly because arable farming had markedly expanded into these areas during the period from 1972 to 1983 . |
| 6 | Even the Government have recognised the need for reform , although the review which they commissioned in 1990 , which has yet to report , appears to have been an excuse for inaction . |
| 7 | For the most part they will have a full complement of spines but this year there seems to have been an increase in hedgehog baldness . |
| 8 | With the liberalisation of financial markets in the 1980s and 1990s , and the growth of new entrants ( many of them from overseas ) there again seems to have been an increase in institutional failures and frauds . |
| 9 | Reports in late August indicated that while the enforcement of the air exclusion zone had proved effective , there appeared to have been an intensification of the government 's ground campaign against Shia rebels . |
| 10 | He seems to have been an influence on Innocent and we are almost surely not far from the mark in imagining long discussions between the three on theology and politics . |
| 11 | Full though these are , they are not always very helpful — much of the chronicle material depends on hearsay , although the author of the Anonimalle Chronicle seems to have been an eye-witness of events in London or at least to have had access to some eye-witness account . |
| 12 | HITHERTO there seems to have been an assumption in the minds of programmers as festive holidays loom that , for the most part , audiences ' minds are on vacation , too . |
| 13 | Donationes mortis causa may be said to have been an anomaly in our law , both for their immunity to the Statute of Frauds 1677 and the Wills Act 1837 and as exceptions to the rule that equity will not perfect an imperfect gift . |
| 14 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 15 | The motive for Nepomuk 's canonisation appears to have been an attempt by the Jesuits to set up an alternative national hero to the heretical Hus . |
| 16 | " It seems to have been an edifice of remote antiquity , and is built of rough stones , and was in my memory , in a ruinated condition without roof and timbers , but has now , for some years past been converted into a workshop and dwelling house inhabited by a wheelwright . |
| 17 | The natural history of cervical cancer among older women is uncertain , but ‘ that little is known about the natural history of cancer of the cervix does not seem to have been an obstacle to the introduction of screening programmes for younger women . ’ |
| 18 | In Posidonius there seems to have been an excursus in honour of M. Claudius Marcellus , the hero of the second Punic War . |
| 19 | He , from the papers I found there , I deduced to have been an academic of some kind . |
| 20 | The profits are not easy to assess , in the absence of receipts for copper sales , but seem to have been an average of £1,248 per month in 1844 and £2,952 p.m. in 1846–7 . |
| 21 | The decision to put the Scottish Office contract out to tender is an example of ‘ market testing ’ — an attempt to see if alternative sources can give better service and value for money than government departments and agencies . |
| 22 | The first thing a gardener 's got to have is an interest in the job , and he 's got to be motivated to do it . |
| 23 | The question in the 1959 survey was open-ended , and it is possible that the great increase in preparedness to act is an artefact of the changed method of question administration . |
| 24 | What I did expect to see was an improvement from a somewhat disappointing Ards and a Linfield team which did the Irish League proud with an excellent performance against Dinamo Tbilisi the previous Wednesday evening . |
| 25 | Refusing to speak is an exercise of the right to silence . |
| 26 | For the Greeks , their ability to speak was an item in the philosophical debate over the differences between man and the animals . |