Example sentences of "be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 2 | Despite these , this data , there seems to be little evidence yet of any change in common practice of three month check cystoscopies in the first year , six monthly in the second year , and yearly checks thereafter . |
| 3 | In relation to offences involving personal violence there would appear to be little evidence from the survey to substantiate claims that Merseyside is an exceptionally violent area In relation to household crimes , however , the rate in Merseyside is substantially higher and in the case of burglary three times higher than the national average . |
| 4 | There seems to be little evidence to support the view that twelve persons chosen at random can decide what is dishonest better than could Parliament or the judges . |
| 5 | Miners ' leaders attending a special conference of the National Union of Mineworkers in Sheffield yesterday backed away from a strike over the imposition of a 7.6 per cent pay rise by British Coal , when they realised there would be little support from members . |
| 6 | There seems to be little work from the Labour local member . |
| 7 | However , the future has to be built on a clear understanding of the new power relationships ; there can be little progress or security if foundation stones are laid on the shifting sands of discontent which campaign against or refuse to acknowledge the times in which the education service is being delivered . |
| 8 | The horse box charge from the south would be a minimum of £500 and more for those coming from the West Country , so there would be little change from a £2,000 race when all the expenses , including the deductions for trainer , jockey and stable lads have been completed . |
| 9 | Contrary to the Jenkins and Sherman argument a group of academic economists ( Stoneman et al. 1981 ) , in a study published by the OECD , claimed that ‘ up to now there is no firm evidence that the current high levels of unemployment are due to technical progress ’ and that ‘ if account is taken of the offsetting effects that can be predicted , there will be little change in overall demand [ for skills and jobs ] ’ . |
| 10 | There will be little change in the employment situation , despite signs that the cold economic climate is thawing , said the MPs as they set out their Budget hopes . |
| 11 | There appears to be little change in prevalence rates with age ( see Figure 5.2 ) , but rates are considerably higher in women as compared with men ( see Figure 5.3 ) . |
| 12 | There can be little doubt that such examples represent the tip of an iceberg . |
| 13 | However , there can be little doubt that significant numbers of protestant loyalists see themselves as a distinct , almost ethnic group . |
| 14 | There can be little doubt , however , that a sense of God 's presence and of the supernatural in general were long-standing characteristics of Irish popular religion , along with magical and semi-magical local religious practices . |
| 15 | There can also be little doubt that the devotional revolution had a significant impact on the life of local catholic communities , especially as social life came to have a very strong relationship to the local parish and its priests . |
| 16 | Though opinion in the South gradually softened , there can be little doubt that the obverse would have been the case had the British government not changed tack and demurred at an openly repressive strategy . |
| 17 | If Pound had attended to Thomas Hardy 's marriage to Florence Emily Dugdale within two years of the death of his first wife , Emma , there can be little doubt that this is the verdict he would have passed on the transaction . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt for instance that the doubtfulness or downright hostility felt towards Eliot by some Americans , particularly in recent decades , derives from the sort of American Eliot was — and remained , long after he had taken British citizenship . |
| 19 | And , although you do get Patsy Kensit to show that not all Boers are boors , there can be little doubt that casting like this will in the long run do more to bring about the end of white rule in South Africa than Robert Royston 's worthy but long-winded drama of apartheid horrors . |
| 20 | Although no reports on incidental killings of small cetaceans in the new Tasman/South Pacific drift-net fishery were provided by the Taiwanese , Japanese , or Korean governments , there could be little doubt of the damage being done . |
| 21 | But there can be little doubt that such change is not going to happen overnight . |
| 22 | There can therefore be little doubt that , in general , sexual assaults constitute a substantially more serious form of harm than mere property offences — which is not to deny that some forms of theft or destruction of property can be more serious than some minor sexual assaults . |
| 23 | There can be little doubt that the administration of criminal justice has paid insufficient attention to problems of sexual abuse over the years , and recent improvements in police procedures and in services for victims are to be welcomed . |
| 24 | There can be little doubt that at the time Constantine took control of the Western empire , Christianity can have been the religion of only a minority , though perhaps not so tiny a minority as has sometimes been thought . |
| 25 | Even so , there can be little doubt that by the middle of the war , the hold of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was among German youth , too , in a process of disintegration . |
| 26 | There can be little doubt that it was the professionalism of Karajan 's music-making — revered by fellow musicians — allied to a range of truly outstanding performances spread across a vast repertoire that had generated this success . |
| 27 | Whether or not the Palace actually arranged for the drawing to be removed , there can be little doubt that they were delighted to be rid of it . … |
| 28 | There can be little doubt that any government would rapidly do so should it become politically expedient . |
| 29 | There can be little doubt that a Labour Minister for Women would be hard put to right all our wrongs ; none the less , it is likely that she will save a few battered women 's refuge centres from closure , open the odd nursery school , and raise the tax status of child-minders to that of company cars . |
| 30 | There can , therefore , be little doubt that this rose was brought to the attention of the Apprentices during their studies in the Physic Garden . |