Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries it was part of the richest life support system in the world . |
| 2 | By May 3 up to 500 Moroccans were being turned back daily from the southern Spanish port of Algeciras as they attempted to enter before May 15 , when a visa became necessary for visitors who were citizens of Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Mauritania . |
| 3 | Batkin et al. ( 1970 ) show that for rats there are problems of perception of sound at a later stage if temporary deprivation occurs at birth . |
| 4 | Next weekend holds a special attraction for youngsters who are members of the railway 's own Stepney Club . |
| 5 | Particularly in the 1930s significant shifts in popular attitudes affected political postures , and for a variety of reasons there were calls for increased public sector intervention in a range of national economic and social affairs . |
| 6 | According to the chronicler Thomas Walsingham [ q.v. ] he was one of a group of knights who were adherents of the ideas of John Wycliffe [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | Massey agrees that the fate of entities which are part of large spatially diverse enterprises can be related to explicit planning decisions , but considers that it is dangerous to somehow regard such actions as ‘ worse ’ than the consequences of the anonymous system forces of capitalism as manifested through market relations . |
| 8 | In the Faculty of Arts there are degrees in Ancient Civilizations of the Mediterranean and Middle East ( taught by members of the Classics Department , the Faculty of Divinity and the Archaeology Department ) and in Archaeology and Scottish Ethnology . |
| 9 | And he will find all sorts of possible explanations for the choice of godparents who are friends of the non-Christian couple , equally non-religious and yet quite happy to vow that they will , in the name of the child , renounce the devil and all his works , the vain pomp and glory of the world , with all covetous desires of the same , and the carnal desires of the flesh , so that they will not follow , nor be led by them . |
| 10 | If we attempt to put the wrong type of things together , or attempt separate explanations of things which are part of the same natural kind , then we are going to struggle to produce successful science . |
| 11 | Disclose the names of persons who were directors at any time during the year . |
| 12 | Bibliotheca has a number of features which are improvements on existing text retrieval systems , including the non-necessity for indexing , the non-occurrence of retrieval noise and suitability for general users since any word can be retrieved . |
| 13 | Yeah we have a number of doctors who are part of our distribution er set up , we have people like Brian who 's busily growing his hair back , there are medical exclusions for people who ca n't invert so |
| 14 | The problem that exists is that factions of governors who are members of the European Central Bank and who disagree with its policies may join together to frustrate them at the national level . |
| 15 | Envoys of Offa , however , had arrived at the court of Charlemagne affirming that this rumour was the work of men who were enemies of both Charlemagne and Offa , and had gone on their way to Rome , accompanied by Frankish envoys , to reiterate Offa 's denial of a plot against Hadrian before the pope himself . |
| 16 | Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) . |
| 17 | This saw mass picketing by the unions after the employer , George Ward , a member of the ‘ National Association for Freedom ’ , sacked some Asian workers following his dismissal of employees who were members of unions . |
| 18 | Birkbeck 's study of garbage pickers in Cali , Colombia , suggests that they should not be viewed as vagrants left behind by economic development but as workers who are part of the industrial system ( Birkbeck 1979 ) . |
| 19 | In his heart the boy Jaq vowed vengeance against daemons and against psykers who were conduits for daemons for stealing his parents from him and bestowing upon him the honour of being raised by missionaries . |
| 20 | Integrity is vital but in all types of organisations including schools there are examples of thinly disguised contempt for customers and consumers . |
| 21 | In patients with ascites there was resolution with a reduction in weight and a reduced requirement for diuretics . |
| 22 | Our medieval law of guardianship was concerned mainly with infants who were heirs of land ; and though the ‘ guardian in socage ’ — the nearest relation of the infant to whom the infant 's land can not descend — has not been abolished , the practice of settlement and of appointing trustees in whom the land , or at least powers over it , are vested , renders rare the occasions on which the very limited powers of such or any kind of guardians can be exercised over an infant 's land . |
| 23 | Pugh lists Horatio , Earl of Orford , as a foundation member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufactures and Commerce ( called later the Royal Society of Arts ) along with others who were members of that society and also foundation members of the College in 1791 . |
| 24 | In other words , if we choose coordinates so that the linearised flow near the origin takes the form we can use these equations to work out the point on the side of B where a trajectory emerges from B if it starts at a point on the top face of B. ( We assume that the box B is a cube with faces which are part of the planes . |
| 25 | In the case of the Earth outgassing occurs today via volcanoes , and also via fumeroles which are holes in the ground which emit volatiles but which emit little ash or lava , and therefore , unlike volcanoes , do not build mountains . |
| 26 | The State regards itself as threatened by Counter-revolution ; its apparatus of power is theoreti cally entitled to employ all means at its disposal ; the great leader person ally authorises the use of force ( and who dares contradict him ? ) ; the army and security forces lumber in with a grotesque over-use of fire power — in this case including heli copters — and within minutes there are bodies in the streets . |
| 27 | What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity . |
| 28 | On the whole speculation is frowned upon because it sometimes drives prices up in a monopolistic fashion ( through the cornering of some market ) and because it creates volatility ; yet where the speculator is a skilled trader in risks he is part of the system . |
| 29 | The riots occurred in places which were strongholds of Tory Anglicanism , but where there was a highly visible and influential Dissenting presence . |
| 30 | From heavy use in earlier years ( it is said to be an old droving road ) , the path 's formation had sunk , so that in places there are banks on both sides , a perfect place for water to collect . |