Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one 's chest at the dinner table . ’ |
| 2 | Older women may hesitate to join in with the young , feeling that they may have to ape their manners to be accepted by them . |
| 3 | Richard does n't have the manners to be a staff officer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This will involve identifying the liabilities and risks to be assumed and the state of the assets being acquired . |
| 7 | It is essential to ensure that the risks to be covered by the insurance policy are sufficient to cover the main eventualities . |
| 8 | The tenant 's surveyor should be consulted to advise on the risks to be covered should any doubt exist . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of the first Japanese arts to be recognised in the West was jiu jitsu , ‘ the art of flexibility ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Whether they had much bearing on the ambition of Otto and his successors to be emperors may be doubted . |
| 13 | Electronic News hears that DEC has decided on the name Alpha AXP for the VAX successors to be built around the new chip . |
| 14 | Does the application you have identified have the right characteristics to be a successful DIP system ? |
| 15 | There are only a few societies where all members hold the same characteristics to be applicable to everyone . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | I find Morrissey 's latest ‘ racially inspired ’ songs to be uncontroversial compared to ‘ Bengali In Platforms ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song . |
| 25 | " You make me feel there are songs to be sung |
| 26 | The children sang songs to be relayed throughout the company 's camps for members of its children 's Tiger Club . |
| 27 | I consider my ears to be small — and I think you 're very rude . ’ |
| 28 | All restarts to be drop-kicks and must go 5 metres ( was 10 ) . |
| 29 | Jigsaw Creator is excellent , in particular in its ability to allow jigsaws to be made from either the ready made pictures , or from your own creations in the Art Alive module , or from the Make a Monster game . |
| 30 | These lost lands are named on old charts as ‘ Sunke Sands ’ and it must have been a logical progression to name the risen sandbank ‘ Sunk Sand Island ’ , eventually over the centuries to be shortened to today 's Sunk Island . |