Example sentences of "be [art] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In his book on Law and Public Opinion in England , Dicey made the point that " the English constitution had been transformed into something like democracy going on to argue that " in a democratic country the laws which will be passed , or at any rate will be put into effect , must be the laws which the people like " . |
| 32 | In many cases it must be the parents who are letting their children use their car without a thought for the consequences . |
| 33 | At home it may in some cases be the parents who notice something ‘ odd ’ about their baby 's eyes or feel an unease about the baby 's visual behaviour . |
| 34 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 35 | When we are too old to force our limbs up the crags and are ready to regale our grandchildren with tales of derring-do it will be the epics which have them on the edge of their seats . |
| 36 | Many will be the writers who composed on early Amstrads , and how will we ensure that their working discs , successors to the invaluable rough note-books and diaries of writers like W H Auden and Graham Greene or campaigners like Marie Stopes , which we already possess , can be used as readily by future generations of scholars ? |
| 37 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 38 | Indeed if the aim is to provide those who control corporate assets with an incentive for putting those assets to their best use it should be the managers who receive the profits of the company and in whose interests it should be run , a conclusion which no one has as yet advocated seriously . |
| 39 | Must be the leaves I think because I do n't think it flowers this shrub here . |
| 40 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 41 | An example might be the provisions which state that the child 's welfare is to be the first consideration in decisions relating to adoption and children in care ( Sections 3 and 59 ) . |
| 42 | However , the cases where the victim is named tend to be the cases which attract widespread or sustained coverage ( or both ) . |
| 43 | The law recognises that the shareholders ' interest lies ultimately in the value of their shares and not in the business as such , or at least , it recognises that it should be the shareholders who determine the outcome of a bid , and hence ( as we will see in more detail in Chapter 5 ) prohibits certain forms of defensive action on the part of the target company board which could have the effect of depriving the members of an opportunity to dispose of their investment on favourable terms . |
| 44 | Its market seems to be the lawyers themselves : ‘ If , as is hoped and expected , the Bar continues to thrive and prosper , its future members require an explanation of the characteristics of the unique profession of advocate which theyare to join . ’ |
| 45 | The following evening there was a particularly ugly incident , although this time , against the tide , it appeared to be the Copts who were responsible . |
| 46 | Bur might the real clients of primary nursing be the nurses themselves ? |
| 47 | However , it is possible that the clients who benefit mostly from primary care might be the nurses themselves . |
| 48 | Thus , if the trustees of an interest in possession trust were actually to pay monies it will generally be the trustees who will be treated for the purpose of income tax as having made the payment and not the beneficiary ; if bare trustees , nominees or agents were to pay monies the beneficial owners or principals will generally be treated as having made the payments . |
| 49 | Simon Folkard and Tim Monk have suggested that it may be the individuals whose rhythms do adjust to the regime who experience the most difficulty . |
| 50 | Indeed , aggression is one of the most predictable ( stable ) psychological traits or attributes over the life-span ; children who are particularly aggressive at the age of three are also likely to be the children who fight and quarrel most frequently at fourteen and even in early adulthood . |
| 51 | They will not be the men who abduct children or who are on drugs or drink . |
| 52 | So if you start using scare quotes , it may be the words you do not put them round which become the problem . |
| 53 | ‘ But those must be the months I remember so well , ’ said Desmond . |
| 54 | But if the urge to leave his native country grows he says Scotland or England will be the places he will look to live in . |
| 55 | For one thing , there wo n't be the interruptions we get here . ’ |
| 56 | In most countries and in most settings , paraprofessionals tend to be the workers who have the most frequent and regular face-to-face contact with the clients of social welfare services . |
| 57 | Now when it asks you for the sample statement , ah done it , right before , it will ask you for the sample statement er over what period would you like to estimate this equation , right instead of pressing the return key which gives you the default , right , if you specify nineteen twenty three to nineteen forty sorry just a a dash between it like that nineteen twenty three space nineteen forty okay it asks you for the number of observations to be used in the structural stability tests , right , erm if you er press the default er if you press the return key then it should give you the maximum number available right five observations in this case right and then it will perform the regression over the entire sample period , those will be the results you obtain , right , it will also er present Chow erm test statistics . |
| 58 | But it is useful anyway to speculate about possible findings and so some possible explanations ; the characters who use irony might be similar in type to Austen herself ( in class , gender , age ) ; or they might be the characters who function as heroes and heroines in the novels . |
| 59 | If anybody is clever enough to do it , it would be the programmers who develop those noisy and vulgar arcade games — Space Invaders ' derivatives . |
| 60 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |