Example sentences of "be [verb] [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my mind while you 're talking is about these three children who presumably er this gentleman 's wife was supposed to be looking after on thirty pounds a week . |
| 2 | The regions which are leading are in some cases different from those which have been leading in terms of the historic trends over the last four months . |
| 3 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 4 | Whether the UK 's proposal will be accepted is in some doubt , not least because it has failed to engender the support of other Member States . |
| 5 | Such faults as can be detected are of little consequence to the average kite-maker . |
| 6 | If we take this into account , the total length of DNA to be specified is at most 10 8 base pairs . |
| 7 | The only way in which the discrimination between A and B can be enhanced is by some process that reduces the role of the c elements in producing generalization from A to B. It is not apparent that establishing associations between A and X and between B and Y will do this , even though X and Y themselves hold rather few ( z ) elements in common . |
| 8 | Only answers to what has been asked are of any value . |
| 9 | The other discovery we are making is of that world cut off from us for fifty years by the Iron Curtain ; Simon Jervis 's otherwise excellent Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers published in 1984 does not include a single one of the leading names in Czech Cubist design : Josef Gocar , Pavel Janak , Vlastislav Hofman , Josef Chochol and Otakar Novotny . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) A licence in which such a condition has been inserted is in this Act referred to as a six-day licence . |
| 11 | It was true that some of the team who were sent were among those who were most experienced in the use of the gifts of the Spirit , but others soon emerged to take their place in the mother church . |
| 12 | His analysis of doctrines as expressions of the religious consciousness leaves a fair measure of uncertainty whether what is said is in any sense true about God , or only about our understanding of God . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) Apart from any such contract , express or implied , the place of delivery is the seller 's place of business , if he has one , and if not , his residence : except that , if the contract is for the sale of specific goods , which to the knowledge of the parties when the contract is made are in some other place , then that place is the place of delivery . ’ |
| 14 | It will be seen that this explanation does not touch the question of whether what is sought is in any sense ‘ evidence ’ . |
| 15 | She was to have been among those entrusted with the secret of the girls ' switched identities . |