Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customers are predominantly members of the public , but some contract work is also undertaken for bodies such as local authorities . |
| 2 | Rose ( 1868 ) , do not obviously suggest serious historical study , but are rather part of a long series of more popular works on Mary , in which Jean Plaidy and Madeleine Bingham are among the most recent exponents ; and there is a certain charm about the publication , in 1793 , of a work by one J. F. Gaum , Marie Stuart und Marie Antoinette in der Underwelt . |
| 3 | Discursive practices are rather fields of play , capable of infinite substitutions . |
| 4 | Yeah , and I say , you know I mean obviously it 's too big but I mean not from from the point of view that the buildings are right outside of them ai n't they ? |
| 5 | For example , despite her attachment to an extra-textual and pre-linguistic domain of mental activity , Nathalie Sarraute 's work , according to Heath , should not be limited by interpretative strategies which are fundamentally referentialist in orientation . |
| 6 | Deltas are fundamentally features of river deposition , not marine deposition , though marine sediments may be incorporated in their fronts and intercalated with river deposits if phases of subsidence alternate with phases of delta building . |
| 7 | Since these qualities are fundamentally expressions of values , attitudes and feelings within the persons , traditional in-service training approaches which concentrate on conveying new knowledge , imparting particular skills or prescribing certain patterns of behaviour are insufficient for headship development . |
| 8 | In other words , we need to recognize that many apparently independent units of production are , without being legally owned subsidiaries , so dominated through subcontracting and purchasing arrangements , that they are effectively part of a single unit of capitalist production . |
| 9 | Pedulla say that these basses are effectively customs without the exorbitant custom price tag . |
| 10 | All are effectively stores of solar heat . |
| 11 | ‘ That should change , but it is only what the Japanese have been successfully doing for years . ’ |
| 12 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 13 | They are mostly Ryes from Moor . |
| 14 | They are mostly women with little formal education who render basic primary health care to people in their villages . |
| 15 | The 14 senior staff of the Centre are mostly members of the LSE Economics Department . |
| 16 | These are mostly species of wide arctic distribution , morphologically distinct from their nearest kin outside the Arctic , suggesting a long-term commitment to polar life . |
| 17 | They are mostly stories in rhymed couplets , and their subject is local scenes or people . |
| 18 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 19 | The remaining 16 occurrences are mostly combinations of at least two of the described problems . |
| 20 | We are mostly Asians in our section , but our shop steward is a white woman . |
| 21 | White holes , by contrast , are presumably areas of intensely strong antigravitational repulsion . |
| 22 | Apart from the fuel used directly to power farm equipment and to transport food , processed or unprocessed , to the consumer , the fertilizers and pesticides which are an integral part of modern cultivation methods are overwhelmingly derivatives of oil . |
| 23 | But it would be a mistake to assume that Prime Ministers are necessarily mouth-pieces of their Lord Chancellors when making the most senior appointments . |
| 24 | Questions about the scope and limits of the doctrine of sovereignty are necessarily questions about the proper relations between the courts and Parliament . |
| 25 | However , as Bell and Szekeres have shown , there are necessarily discontinuities in the derivatives of the metric function V across the initial boundaries of this region . |
| 26 | So far , so good , but finding a set of correlations of this sort still says nothing about whether they are necessarily part of the memory formation process unless I can find a way of showing that they are not simply the aftermath of the unpleasant experience of tasting the bitter bead ; that is , I must meet my own third , reductionist criterion . |
| 27 | It does not follow , however , that incised meanders are necessarily signs of rejuvenation , as if a stream starts to meander before it attains grade it may incise its own meanders to some extent without being rejuvenated . |
| 28 | He may not be able to see the political and general interest wood for the specialist trees , and there is a sense in which there are obviously dangers of that kind erm and the generalist has always taken the view that it 's for the specialist to be able to explain his problems in language which , after all , politicians who take the final decisions will have to be able to understand . |
| 29 | While there are obviously problems in developing and using this type of notional scale it has some utility . |
| 30 | There are obviously loads of guitar overdubs on it , but they 've managed to keep it sounding like a record made by a three-piece band . |