Example sentences of "be [conj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it pay wages and provide working conditions which are or above the average of its locality ? |
| 2 | These conditions are that at no time during the relevant accounting reference period — ; |
| 3 | And the more obvious it is that I 'm the best , the more convinced they are that under the surface , in some subtler way that only a more discriminating critic would appreciate , they are … |
| 4 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 5 | They are that in the State of execution the execution of the Letter does not fall within the province of the judiciary ; and that the State addressed considers that its sovereignty or security would be prejudiced thereby . |
| 6 | The 12-strong board of governors meets on Thursday , and although most have diplomatically refused to comment on the row , estimates are that in the absence of any further evidence against Mr Birt in the next few days , he will survive any vote on his future . |
| 7 | Love her or loathe her , odds are that in the bestseller stakes Lady Thatcher will be nudging Catherine Cookson all the way to Christmas . |
| 8 | The chances are that in an adult novel — certainly in Masefield 's sea-stories — this kind of instant personal illumination would have been avoided : the alternative , an allusive type of dialogue , would have shifted the emphasis from what is really authorial statement to an implied point of character . |
| 9 | It 's also a mite expensive , although you should bear in mind that retail prices are deceptive things ; the chances are that after a period of high demand and correspondingly high prices , the cost of the SRV will settle down to around the same as the Clapton Strat . |
| 10 | The facts are that within a decade of the Vienna Congress , nationalism was gathering furious pace . |
| 11 | The suggestion had been that in the galleries |
| 12 | HAMLET : … for you yourself , sir , should be as old as I am if like a crab you could go backward . |
| 13 | The consultant needs to see the relatives as well as the patient and take time to explain what the treatment is for , what its effects are and about the side-effects . |
| 14 | Bought it , I do n't know one for sale now , you know , but for the price they are and for the rent it 's very reasonable . |
| 15 | The first two were Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak , ornate with fabulous wide-mouthed forest monsters and small plump boys fallling through the night devoured by dough . |
| 16 | Karen fears this may have been because of the news coverage the triplets had when they were born . |
| 17 | Incubation with sodium [ 1- 1 4 C ] butyrate in the absence of mucosal biopsy specimens led to an increase in scintillation in the Eppendorf vial of 512 ( 35 ) ( mean ( SD ) , n=6 ) disintegrations per minute ( DPM ) above background , which may have been because of the volatility of the butyrate . |
| 18 | He suggested this might have been because at the time an aircraft 6km up was dropping laser-guided bombs onto the next platform ( or target as they are usually known ) . |
| 19 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |
| 20 | There are many features of animals which could be improved on , and which are as they are because of the legacy of the past . |
| 21 | erm and given the right weather , there is no better place to be than in the Thames and Chilterns . |
| 22 | No , the they 'll be a pupil input , it might well be that as a department there 's a decision that the pupil would not write |
| 23 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 24 | But it would n't even be that on a system with the facility for multicurrency sales ledgers . |
| 25 | Deep down inside , our belief may be that on the whole we 're a bad lot . |
| 26 | The Pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth , and it may be that on the basis of Freud 's analysis there is an important difference between those who are loved by the Pope as well as , and on behalf of , Christ , and those who are not loved by the Pope , and may indeed be actively hostile to him or his representatives . |
| 27 | It may be that on the facts of our problem the death of the leader is certain , hot merely probable , if the rope is not cut . |
| 28 | ‘ Is it safe to do that , knowing one outcome may be that at the end of the process we exclude sexual abuse ? |
| 29 | ‘ With this one there was very little injury and as well as that she was quite a big girl and it may very well be that at the end of the day we could say that she did n't resist to the last and if she did n't then of course it 's not rape it 's a different crime , indecent assault . ’ |
| 30 | no , what I 'm saying is I think that 's something that the B A I E education committee nationally should sit down and have a look at , I mean it may well be that at the end of the day Napier would set a better exam paper than they would er , also I 've suggested to them and again they have n't that Napier validate the course do the marking but with perhaps two B A I E fellows |