Example sentences of "be [conj] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her game shows enormous improvement from a year ago , and the indications are that her breakthrough into the top 100 will come soon . |
| 2 | It may have been that its conflicts with the communists exaggerated its importance . |
| 3 | Ascot was barely a week past and all the indications had been that her rehabilitation as a jockey would be a matter of weeks not days . |
| 4 | The anecdotal view has been that his brevity of tenure reflected animosity from an Anglican establishment , disturbed by Lyell 's rejection of a recent , universal flood . |
| 5 | Acceptance so often seems to rest with what we are and our place in society . |
| 6 | It may be that their experience of GIST has given them a better idea of the amount of work and energy involved in trying to change things ( Kelly et al . , |
| 7 | It may be that their meeting with the new people hastens change , but it is perceptible almost from the beginning . |
| 8 | In fact , it could well be that his knowledge of her return to Eastlake had brought about her present anxieties . |
| 9 | It could be that your lack of confidence is connected with work . |
| 10 | It could be that your lack of confidence concerns home life ; perhaps you hate people coming to see you because your home is not beautiful — or perhaps it is never tidy . |
| 11 | ‘ 'Nice ’ he may be but his taste for Brand 's A1 Sauce — or is it HP ? ’ — Mervyn examined the page more closely — ‘ does seem to be excessive . |
| 12 | 3 But it also makes sense to say that the British constitution is what the authorities say it should be because their views on these matters help to police everyday political practice , pulling it into line with the constitutional theory which they themselves advance as the proper way to conduct politics . |
| 13 | Maybe we should be when your budget for all nations have plenty of food and plenty of resources should automatically make this sort of money and food available to nations without it . |
| 14 | To an extent , the use which the old can be to younger people is determined years earlier and is to do with the sort of people which they always were and their relationships with others . |
| 15 | When it comes to the second aspect — marketing the services offered by departments — it is possible to content that ‘ top management does not understand what marketing is or its importance to an organisation 's success . |
| 16 | One reason why the poorest endure unemployment longest is that their share of the job market is shrinking , while those from higher social groups confront radically different job prospects . |
| 17 | A frequent complaint of black students is that their reports of racial abuse and violence are habitually ignored or their racial elements denied by white teachers . |
| 18 | The characteristic of less developed countries is that their consumption of both wood and steel , that is the total tonnage of their artifacts , is less . |
| 19 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 20 | A major complaint of the Serbs is that their proportion of the Kosovo population is steadily shrinking . |
| 21 | The major point which I want to take from this discussion of young people 's situation is that their need to be supported economically by their parents , and more generally their position in structures of reciprocal support within families , to a large extent depend upon factors outside the control of individual families : laws relating to schooling and employment , and the operation of the labour market . |
| 22 | The major problem here is that their image of what this community consists of tends to be markedly different from that of the local population . |
| 23 | My personal reaction to Tomlinson is that its conclusions about Barts and the other hospitals scheduled for closure are fundamentally wrong . |
| 24 | One reason is that its rag-bag of products is hard to evaluate ; another is that Hanson appears to have a poor image on community and environmental responsibility . |
| 25 | One of the more commonly heard complaints against the existing management structure from top athletes is that its detachment from the road race scene leaves management ill-equipped to make selection decisions for road races in major internationals . |
| 26 | The worst that can happen is that its domain of applicability becomes circumscribed . |
| 27 | The major difficulty with The Confidential Clerk , however , is that its techniques of stage action are so thoroughly and obviously conventional that anything Eliot cares to place within them is diminished . |
| 28 | Another is that its method of valuation was too complex and this would detract from its widespread adoption . |
| 29 | One reason cited for its downsizing is that its mix of skills is no longer appropriate , given that the mainframe software business is declining , and its Unix and client-server applications are only now coming to market . |
| 30 | And the problem is that its effect on the neighbours — within a radius of miles , given the capability of modern sound systems — is severely damaging . |