Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be " in BNC.

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31 Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed .
32 Furthermore , the Act allows pupils ' family backgrounds , ages and aptitudes to be taken into account by the school in determining whether an act of collective worship which is not of a broadly Christian character takes place in the school .
33 The degree structure is such that an Arts student can often construct a curriculum , with the advice of a Director of Studies , that enables individual interests and aptitudes to be followed .
34 It 's something of a shock after the deserts of Utah and Arizona to be greeted by Canadian-style pine forests and snow showers in early June .
35 At Chilgrove 1 , the coin series ends with Magnentius , and Alec Down , the excavator , suggests an amalgamation with Chilgrove 2 which could represent the kind of reorganization to be expected .
36 And even if she had decided to use a delivery service , there would normally be a full check-list to be ticked off before parting with any money .
37 Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire , and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated ; he calls this the ‘ Buzby effect ’ .
38 I find Morrissey 's latest ‘ racially inspired ’ songs to be uncontroversial compared to ‘ Bengali In Platforms ’ .
39 These include the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church , the Churches of Christ , the Wild Goose Songs of the Iona Community and the ‘ charismatic ’ hymns and songs to be found in all denominations .
40 For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song .
41 " You make me feel there are songs to be sung
42 The children sang songs to be relayed throughout the company 's camps for members of its children 's Tiger Club .
43 In the same way that one would expect the British Medical Association to be called upon to comment on any issue of human rights , we should come to expect the Library Association , along with other organizations such as Article 19 to be called to comment on any issue of censorship , and not just in the literary context .
44 The right for their tenants ' association to be officially recognised .
45 200 walks organised by The Ramblers ' Association to be held all over England , Scotland and Wales .
46 The system also allows membership records of former students who have joined the Oxford Polytechnic Association to be maintained .
47 Suppose we wish to put a straight line unc through the following set of experimental points : unc Suppose further that , in view of the experimental method , we may expect errors in f to be proportional to t .
48 Some , certainly , are very good at it , but there is a clear tendency for much of their thinking to be rather superficial .
49 So the end of the Cold War is also the ‘ end of history ’ — no more stories to be told , no more thinking to be done , no more fundamental conflicts to be resolved .
50 If we acknowledge the importance of respecting the child 's own ways of thinking , we need to find ways for that thinking to be expressed so that it can be reflected on , and to know how far doing this can also help learning .
51 These could actually be used as two separate windings driving separate supply circuits , but it would be very unusual for a transformer to be used in this way .
52 Thus in Aldridge v Johnson ( 1857 ) 7 E & B 885 there was an agreement to transfer 32 bullocks valued at £192 in return for 100 quarters of barley valued at £125 , the set off of £23 to be paid in cash ; this was construed as a reciprocal sale ( see also Forsyth v Jervis ( 1816 ) 1 Stark 437 ; Sheldon v Cox ( 1824 ) 3 B & C 420 ) .
53 A consultant had advised them that they could earn £10.5m more from their current activities , and that there was a potential additional revenue of £25m to be made from the campus by expanding into calendars , hot dogs and more .
54 I consider my ears to be small — and I think you 're very rude . ’
55 It expects a non-Russian contractor to be commissioned soon to construct an international terminal at Domodeovo .
56 Day works should be bed as they provide no incentive for a contractor to be efficient because he or she is not responsible for the efficient use of resources , the profit is guaranteed and there may be a risk of double payment .
57 However , as the contractor is free to time the work within the contract period it wold be illogical for the contractor to be able to claim the cost and time effects of an influence which might have caused further delay but did not in fact do so ; and in the situation described it is likely that the first cause rules .
58 This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with .
59 Because of cultural , family or personality factors many people may suppress their grief , but allowing grief to be expressed often reduces its intensity or duration .
60 Nevertheless it could be a long time before any human decisions acquired sufficient accord to be entered as units of ‘ goodness ’ and assigned to the Created God .
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