Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work like the Peplos kore ( fig. 39 ) , Exekias 's neck-amphora ( fig. 55 ) or the Vix krater ( fig. 58 ) show archaic Greek art in its assured prime : craftsmen who are masters of their craft can develop their styles and express what they want happily within the general limitations of inherited convention . |
| 2 | The further north we reached the more weird and wonderful floating contraptions we encountered , merchant ships converted to drilling barges , special pipe-laying barges which were mini-townships within themselves with populations of up to 200 crewmen . |
| 3 | At The American College in London you earn more than a degree — you receive an education with a career focus and individual attention from faculty who are professionals in their fields . |
| 4 | N.B. While every effort is made to teach each of the courses listed as available for the taught postgraduate degrees in the Faculty of Law there are circumstances in which this may not prove possible . |
| 5 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 6 | The boy was shaking , and when he looked up at Rory there were tears in his eyes . |
| 7 | At the moment there are difficulties for everybody . |
| 8 | Catherine Somerville brings to her work a wide experience of people and places and a dramatic sense of colour which is combines with her ability as a draughtswoman . |
| 9 | Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure . |
| 10 | How , that is , do they relate to the particular things which are instances of them , and to our minds when we think of those things as men , or as triangles ? |
| 11 | controls those authorised persons who are members of it by requiring them to comply with the rules of the organisation . |
| 12 | controls those authorised persons who are members of it . |
| 13 | When they finally settled in the branches of a tree there were hordes of them , so many that they looked like fruit overburdening their source ‘ ripe to be plucked . |
| 14 | Incidentally , it was he who thought that if the tsarist library actually still existed , then it would be situated beneath the Moscow Kremlin ( to this day there are legends of its sealed-off hiding-places and passages ) . |
| 15 | That evening and the next day there were speeches in which Sturge and Birmingham received particular notice . |
| 16 | In addition there are circumstances in which disclosure is permissible . |
| 17 | But — and this is why I am obliged to require your co-operation — at a certain level there are gaps in my team . |
| 18 | WHEN pressed to name some rich and famous people who are customers at his London restaurants , Viscount Linley replied : ‘ As I was telling the Queen the other night , I just hate name-dropping . ’ |
| 19 | If the restraint is confined to acting on behalf of people who were clients of your firm during the subsistence of the employment , it may be valid . |
| 20 | She wants friends who are artists like herself . ’ |
| 21 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 22 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 23 | They like training which they can actually apply , that has practical applications so say if you 're thinking of something like erm motivation styles or something like that , if you were gon na introduce Lounslow I du n no at the motivation there are loads of them one 's Lounslow one 's Hertzberg if you were introducing our training to a pragmatist what would be essential is you could actually show the practical application of it , if you just put forward C V and no practical application the pragmatist would say well this is all very well in theory , but how can I apply it to my job and if they ca n't they think well what 's the value of this . |
| 24 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 25 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 26 | Beside me they look even slimmer , and I start thinking : maybe that 's the only reason they are friends with me ? |
| 27 | With these new ministers who are experts in their relevant fields Italy will I hope change very soon . |
| 28 | Perhaps the remarkable thing is that married women who are professionals in their own right have any children at all ; a high proportion certainly stay unmarried . |
| 29 | Rulers who were kings in their own right were placed in a subordinate ‘ feudal ’ relationship to the kings of France as a result of their continental inheritance . |
| 30 | Meredith MacArdle of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society , Exit , says : ‘ In a way we are victims of our own achievements . |