Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be " in BNC.
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1 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
2 | Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one 's chest at the dinner table . ’ |
3 | Older women may hesitate to join in with the young , feeling that they may have to ape their manners to be accepted by them . |
4 | Richard does n't have the manners to be a staff officer . |
5 | The power steering on your vehicles should allow the wheel to be turned easily by one hand . |
6 | ( 11 June 1763 ) The family had to wait about two days for the wheel to be fixed ( involving expenditure on housing , and feeding the horses and the driver ) . |
7 | Quite a crowd of people had gathered on the quay , but they were well behaved and they allowed ample room for the Wheel to be dragged ashore and stood on its rims . |
8 | These six poems are a brief moment of religious experience in an age that believes religion to be a kind of defeatism and puts its hope for man in finding the right secular order . |
9 | I became exceedingly religious and consequently anxious to know whether there was any good ground for supposing religion to be true . |
10 | Gandhi 's reply to these kind of questions would probably indicate that for him morality has to be related to what he conceives religion to be . |
11 | Thus , it is quite possible in Northern Ireland for an ethnic Catholic to be a non-believer , or conversely for an ( English ) outsider who is an adherent of the Catholic religion to be categorized as non-Catholic . |
12 | But it has also led to assumptions which cause religion to be ignored , doubted and re-interpreted . |
13 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
14 | God is in no sense an idealised self-image to be possessed and manipulated . |
15 | However , there are a number of risks to be considered by even the most competent pilot , and these are outside the pilot 's control once the cloud climb has been started . |
16 | The case for R&D agreements is partly that they avoid wasteful duplication of research , and allow complementary skills and risks to be pooled , but mainly that they internalize the information spillovers which mean that a single firm is unable to appropriate all the returns to its R&D efforts . |
17 | This will involve identifying the liabilities and risks to be assumed and the state of the assets being acquired . |
18 | It is essential to ensure that the risks to be covered by the insurance policy are sufficient to cover the main eventualities . |
19 | The tenant 's surveyor should be consulted to advise on the risks to be covered should any doubt exist . |
20 | However , such friendship only opens the door ; thereafter the hard reality of the benefits to be gained and the risks to be run will take over . |
21 | One of the first Japanese arts to be recognised in the West was jiu jitsu , ‘ the art of flexibility ’ . |
22 | However , it must be pointed out that what he has consistently proposed does not require the arts to be subjected to ‘ scientific or quasi-scientific ’ forms of measurement . |
23 | The further development of current techniques for measuring protein synthesis , in vivo , will be required to allow the contribution of each cell type to the rate of protein synthesis in the whole biopsy to be determined . |
24 | Whether they had much bearing on the ambition of Otto and his successors to be emperors may be doubted . |
25 | Electronic News hears that DEC has decided on the name Alpha AXP for the VAX successors to be built around the new chip . |
26 | There was no means of tapping the slag , requiring the furnace to be broken after melting and then rebuilt ( Med . |
27 | Does the application you have identified have the right characteristics to be a successful DIP system ? |
28 | There are only a few societies where all members hold the same characteristics to be applicable to everyone . |
29 | However , keep , paint , leave , produce , drink do not support subordinate clauses ; and , while they can be followed by the same sequence of noun phrase + adjective , the adjective is not clausal in their case but a predicate qualifier , and it shows the other characteristics to be expected of a predicate qualifier . |
30 | Owners of domestic dogs do not normally expect their pets to be out hunting prey , bringing it down and killing it , in the same fashion as their wild cousins — the wolf on the Arctic Tundra or the Cape hunting dog of the African Serengeti . |