Example sentences of "be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ’ There are times you do n't agree in football . |
| 32 | There are artists whose inspiration and field of action is the landscape itself . |
| 33 | There are artists who paint in every detail and there are other artists ( like Turner ) who convey a mood witch undefined washes of colour . |
| 34 | That is rarely , if ever , the case , but there are phenomena which approach it , and which need some thought . |
| 35 | If they are voluminous , they are not notes — if they are notes they are not voluminous . |
| 36 | Often there are projects whose cash flows do not follow the conventional pattern of an initial net outflow followed by a series of net cash inflows . |
| 37 | There are projects we 're working on in Santa Barbara that — ’ |
| 38 | Thus in London at different times there have been groups which have called themselves the Society of Twelve , the Seven and Five , and One/Four . |
| 39 | Second , are States which ratify the Convention closer to its coming into force bound by the terms of the Convention , or the terms as altered by subsequent actions of non-parties . |
| 40 | Indian journalists are busily burrowing into the business affairs of the prime minister 's family , and there are signs they might find something embarrassing . |
| 41 | A dozen spills later I came across the Stigma note : Indicia are signs which create a certain presumption ( proof ) . |
| 42 | If there are contracts which are essential to the conduct of the business , the purchaser should make obtaining consent to assign or novate these a condition precedent . |
| 43 | But as soon as I begin to be nice to him , a sort of self-satisfaction seems to creep into his voice and his manner ( very discreet , he 's been humility itself all day , no reproach about last night , of course ) and I begin to want to goad and slap him again . |
| 44 | Her hands are claws she keeps concealed within her rags and tatters . |
| 45 | There are proposals which relate to earmarking all , or a proportion of revenue from specific consumption goods ( Denton 1982 ) . |
| 46 | ‘ Sub-cultures ’ are cultures which exist in a context dominated by the decisions , values and attitudes of others . |
| 47 | Choropleth maps are maps which show the distribution of the magnitude of a variable such as population density for each of a set of areal units such as counties or enumeration districts . |
| 48 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |
| 49 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 50 | It is all too easy to find that the only properly planned meetings are the ones at which exchange of contracts and completion take place and those are meetings which are usually orchestrated by the solicitors acting for the buyer and the seller . |
| 51 | It had been Marcus who turned up at the Evans house on Saturday afternoon when Pascoe was there . |
| 52 | It had also been Marcus who had phoned Connon with the news of Arthur 's visit to the police station . |
| 53 | And then there are cases which do not seem to correspond with any of the given meanings . |
| 54 | In practical terms this concern is relevant only where supervising and senior staff in the agency may learn about a pollution ; by definition these are cases which the agency regards as important , in particular , those which may have implications for the agency 's public reputation . |
| 55 | What explanatory surveys require are cases which possess characteristics relevant to the problem of the research . |
| 56 | Coercive inducements are inducements which are so powerful , and so difficult to refuse , that they come to act as a kind of coercion . |
| 57 | They are idealizations which serve to ‘ cover and to evade the actual and bitter contradictions of the time ’ ( Williams , 1973 , p. 45 ) . |
| 58 | There had in the past been clergymen who had elaborated the written account in the manner of solo violinists , composing their own cadenzas , and their elaborations had found their way into the written account . |
| 59 | Within organisations and even within departments there are values which take priority and create the culture . |
| 60 | Not just truth-telling , but sincerity ; not just intelligibility , but empathy ; these are values which ought to be taken on board . |