Example sentences of "[be] [det] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Because it 's there 's if I 'm there for three weeks and they only want a score card done then my potential earnings er total earnings are that but I 'm there anyway so if I 'm getting both of them done then I can earn a lot more money .
2 You may have erm an absolute dictatorship , in which the values of the dictator are that and nobody asks anybody else anything about it .
3 Where the parenthetical term in ( 7–38 ) is positive ( sufficient conditions for which are that or the gross factor price of capital in the corporate sector rises ( falls ) , and this increases the equilibrium firm size where fixed costs are relatively capital-intensive ( ) .
4 GCSE , like its predecessors , remains predominantly a ‘ sudden death ’ examination , for which there are little or no formative components , whereas the provision of regular feedback and review is becoming increasingly fundamental to profiling schemes .
5 To accept that whatever she had done or promised or performed to maintain her position in Market Square then her choice could only have been that or the workhouse .
6 As a result there would have been little or no evolutionary pressure on cats to develop an anti-stranger reaction where kittens are concerned .
7 Hardcore porn is openly traded in the cities and exhibited in cinemas and video shops across the country , despite experimental zoning restrictions in certain areas , yet there has been little or no attempt in the courts or the legislatures to discriminate between the greater and lesser dangers it represents .
8 Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project .
9 If the pulsar is a rejuvenated old neutron star , the large magnetic field suggests that there has been little or no decay from its original value , lending support to work suggesting the field decay may not occur , in contrast to other evidence .
10 In the more notorious slum districts , there appears to have been little or no respect for the law .
11 Up to then there had been little or no solid research in this field and the facts as to sexual elements in British society were still arcane .
12 While there have been several academic studies using data from the 1982 , and the subsequent 1984 BCS , there has been little or no independent research using the local data sets .
13 There may have been little or no discussion of these issues , even among the higher clerics and ecclesiastical advisers , but Innocent was too polished a performer not to realize the public relations advantages of pronouncement in a general council .
14 But the coded language of the joint communiqué issued at the end of Churchill 's Washington visit of January 1952 showed that there had been little or no meeting of minds .
15 The disease progressed rapidly and there 's been little or no remission . ’
16 Since the mid-1980's there has been little or no growth .
17 Potential buyers are few but real enough .
18 There are a number of species which occur in this way and hence define communities in a rather trivial sense , since there are few or no associates .
19 This type of base tends to feel very firm as there are few or no springs .
20 One is intensive arable as in the Fens , New Holland in Lincolnshire , and on much of the chalk ; there are few or no hedges or trees , but open country with no sense of enclosure or division .
21 To make it easy to uphaul it will have a fairly short boom of around 2.0 m for a 5.5 sq m sail , whilst to keep the weight down there are few if any battens .
22 Surely , as we move towards the end of 1992 , there are few if any businesses involved in trading with other European Community countries that are not aware of the fundamental changes that will take place from 1 January 1993 after internal frontiers are removed ?
23 There are few if any developed functionalist accounts of state institutions , although Therborn 's ( 1978 ) analysis of the decline of parliaments is a mixture of functional and arbiter model arguments .
24 This is merely a hypothetical possibility as in practice there are few if any securities with negative betas .
25 I stated my views to Lord Stanley as fully as I could , but I fear that the Exchequer is not in a condition to enable him to second my views , 1 think you will do me the credit to say that if any man can organize an Expedition for interior research I can , and that there are few if any here more qualified from experience for such a task .
26 Not only do we not know what these units should be ( e.g. phones , diphones , syllables , etc ) , there are few if any acoustic cues to the boundaries between such units .
27 There are few if any reliable physical cues to word boundaries .
28 ‘ With an auction , you 've got to be certain that at least two buyers are there who can commit themselves , and the difficulty is that buyers who can proceed are few and far between , ’ said David Phillip , a director of Yorkshire estate agents Dacre Son and Hartley .
29 Precedents are few and far between .
30 The worst of the teaching offered in theological colleges occurs because the staff are few and the ground to be covered enormous .
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