Example sentences of "be [conj] the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the number of accidents involving specific road user groups is small , the indications are that the benefits have fallen to pedestrians , particularly children , and cyclists . |
| 2 | However the facts are that the courts have not for the last 300 years recognised , nor have they acted upon , a logic which renders all questions of law jurisdictional . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the indications are that the populations recover if not disturbed again . |
| 4 | The only real alternatives to the Pitcairn plume containing recycled continental or sedimentary material are that the magmas have assimilated sediment in crustal magma chambers or they have exchanged oxygen during subsequent submarine weathering . |
| 5 | Everywhere candidates lost out to a low turnout … all the signs are that the voters have had enough for this year |
| 6 | The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike . |
| 7 | It may have been that the Palaeoindians moving through America from |
| 8 | Perhaps the problem has been that the Americans have adopted Pop Art as a national institution and seen it as exclusively an American product , so I found the inclusion of the German painters , Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter , illuminating . |
| 9 | Could it have been that the upholders contested the undertakers ' application to join their guild , on the pretext that the furnishing of funerals was the prerogative of their members ? |
| 10 | MY argument has been that the positions adopted within public law by commentators , advocates , and judges are rooted in certain categories of thought . |
| 11 | The result has been that the Conservatives have been able to transform this country from the laggard of Europe in the hands of the unions with inflation well over 20pc to a lean , competitive economy with low taxes ready to take full advantage of the upturn when the recession ends . |
| 12 | The problem to date has been that the colours seen on the display monitor are difficult to reproduce accurately in the final dyed or printed product : what you see is not always what you get ! |
| 13 | Our presumption has been that the police adhere to them . |
| 14 | The problem with recent miscarriages of justice has been that the police have not done a thorough enough job . |
| 15 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 16 | And dry it would have been if the heavens had n't opened the moment the ship docked and the troops set foot on French soil . |
| 17 | In Phekoo by contrast the Court of Appeal went directly to the general principle , asking themselves Brett 's question , ‘ What would the position of the accused have been if the facts had been as he believed them to be ? ’ |
| 18 | The slightly higher RNR levels for elderly married couples and for men living alone than for women living alone are because the women have less income from paid employment and from occupational pensions . |
| 19 | Naturally the major proviso for such accord would be that the resources spent on the asylums be entirely redistributed within modernized health services . |
| 20 | One working assumption might be that the rules governing conversation between persons can be extended in a natural way to cover the new situation , but there are grounds for doubting that this is what literally occurs . |
| 21 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 22 | Although some extra money has been allocated to help with the Government programme , the economists say that , generally , the intention appears to be that the initiatives to meet targets will be funded out of existing resources . |
| 23 | would be that the covenants had been performed , either by itself or some other covenantor or assignee . |
| 24 | The reason for this divergence is not known , but it may well be that the conditions used for DNaseI treatment do not allow the formation of stable complexes resistant to the action of the enzyme . |
| 25 | In conclusion , it could be that the problems have been exaggerated , and indeed one study of second homes in the southwest of England , the second most important area after Wales , concluded ( South West Economic Planning Council , 1975 , vii ) that : ‘ second homes do not pose a problem that is widespread in the region nor are they likely to do so ’ . |
| 26 | And the conclusion must be that the unions failed utterly to make the case out . |
| 27 | The reason for this appears to be that the territories occupied by red-winged blackbirds in these marshes vary enormously in their quality , specifically in the amount of food they contain . |
| 28 | The most ambitious suggestion will be that the units behave in a way functional for the system , as demonstrated by showing why the system could not otherwise maintain its impetus . |
| 29 | In my judgment it would be that the plaintiffs had ceased really to be holders of the negotiable instrument on which they sued . |
| 30 | The guiding principle in translating concepts into the indexing language of any given system must be that the terms selected and the relationships indicated are consistent with the ‘ normal ’ user 's perspective on the subject . |