Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , what the Harlequins are doing with Troy Coker at the moment may be legal but it bears no relation to what the law should be or to what it should be seen to be . |
| 2 | erm the west bank option for widen worsen road to be abandoned , that I quite agree with and design on , and then follow that , I 'd like erm do environmental report for members to be or for members to look at the environmental report before it comes here . |
| 3 | He could think of nowhere he would rather be than at home , with people he knew and trusted , in a place without secrets . |
| 4 | What better path could there be than through Iran and indeed , along Reza Shahs new railway ? |
| 5 | erm and given the right weather , there is no better place to be than in the Thames and Chilterns . |
| 6 | No , the they 'll be a pupil input , it might well be that as a department there 's a decision that the pupil would not write |
| 7 | It may even be that despite taking care with matching yourself to the job before making an initial application you may find out further information that will make you less enthusiastic about the job . |
| 8 | ‘ It may be that despite what has happened , he will simply stay on in Kigali until the time he was due to fly out . |
| 9 | Just just think about that and just use that graph there If you wanted to work out the angle there , the tan of the angle would be that over that , but only when the scale is the same on both axes . |
| 10 | The analogous distinction in fiction would be that between the conscious and the reluctant narrator — the sad , the unwitting narrator . |
| 11 | The assumption seemed to be that through some mechanism or other , the additional allocation of relatively small sums to be used for capital projects would moderate the problems of the inner-urban areas . |
| 12 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 13 | Could it not be that during cleavage , when the egg divides up , each cell acquires special determinants , either cytoplasmic or nuclear , which would control the cell 's future development ? |
| 14 | His intention , quite clearly , must be that on her death she should be succeeded by her intestate heir . |
| 15 | But it would n't even be that on a system with the facility for multicurrency sales ledgers . |
| 16 | Deep down inside , our belief may be that on the whole we 're a bad lot . |
| 17 | Indeed , it may be that on occasion physical ill-treatment is a consequence of the tension this sort of situation produces . |
| 18 | The Pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth , and it may be that on the basis of Freud 's analysis there is an important difference between those who are loved by the Pope as well as , and on behalf of , Christ , and those who are not loved by the Pope , and may indeed be actively hostile to him or his representatives . |
| 19 | It may be that on such a consultation the Lord Chief Justice will take a different view from that of the trial judge , but under the present procedure the prisoner will be unaware of any variation of the trial judge 's original advice . |
| 20 | It may be that on the facts of our problem the death of the leader is certain , hot merely probable , if the rope is not cut . |
| 21 | Erm now it may be that on a particular site erm conditions could be laid down to ensure and secure that there were significant employment benefits accruing from the development of that site . |
| 22 | ‘ Is it safe to do that , knowing one outcome may be that at the end of the process we exclude sexual abuse ? |
| 23 | Warwick 's chief stewardship in the duchy of Lancaster went not to Gloucester but to Hastings and the implication seems to be that at this stage the king was more concerned to reward his allies than to undertake a major reconstruction of royal authority in the north . |
| 24 | It may be that at a low level of a graduated test scheme teachers may wish to acknowledge a pupil 's recognition of only an equilateral or isosceles triangle as a triangle . |
| 25 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 26 | It may be that at this time he was retained also by Simon of Montfort , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , who had awarded him a money fee before 1245 . |
| 27 | The sample may be biased insofar as Livingstone and Wilkie used middle management as their study and it may well be that at this level individuals are reasonably well paid and hence money is not as important as other factors . |
| 28 | ‘ With this one there was very little injury and as well as that she was quite a big girl and it may very well be that at the end of the day we could say that she did n't resist to the last and if she did n't then of course it 's not rape it 's a different crime , indecent assault . ’ |
| 29 | It may even be that at no one moment in mid-Silurian times was limestone being deposited throughout the region concerned . |
| 30 | It could be that at some future date we may wish to consider running DOS-based PCs from a Unix file-server , but it is preferable that we leave this as a possible option at the moment , rather than a definite commitment . |