Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [prep] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They control initially and you know being feeling that you 're part of it you 're in charge of it can set the scene for the whole conversation . |
| 2 | How , she asked herself in those early days , has it come about that I , daughter to a humble carpenter and a washerwoman , have become the companion and confidante of her who is close to the throne , who is sister-in-law to him who will one day be King of England ? |
| 3 | All of us , no matter how irresolute we are , like to think that we reign supreme in our own consciousness , that we are masters of what our minds accept or reject … |
| 4 | He could hang everything is sight including what his favourite paper hangs regularly : The Truth . |
| 5 | One is release in which we walk as through a landscape , seeing the sublime aspects of nature and life , sometimes feeling the euphoria of release . |
| 6 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 7 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 8 | So , if there are limits to what we can do , and if the development of technology brings costs as well as benefits , we now must face the second question : under what circumstances do we either develop or apply a particular technology ? |
| 9 | I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit . |
| 10 | There are limits to what I 'd dare and |
| 11 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
| 12 | Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’ |
| 13 | It will no doubt have its critics and I would have to admit that there are elements of it I am not happy about . |
| 14 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |
| 15 | As well as investigating lists and potential backers , consider if there are way in which you could instigate a residency which would match your particular skills and expectations to the benefits , tangible or otherwise , for a particular firm or organisation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Safrane is also a car that meets its rivals head on , even though there are areas in which we , certainly , were hoping for more . |
| 18 | ‘ There are areas in which we can act as a sounding board in general business issues and where the accountant ca n't ’ said . |
| 19 | I think it 's a very useful point of contact , because there are areas in which there are obviously differences , different styles of life , different ways of life , different erm time commitments , and it 's very good that this something that tries to bridge the gap . |
| 20 | He knows too that there are activities in which he is most intelligent when he is most spontaneous , in which to think may even be dangerous ; the ski jumper or the tightrope walker can not afford to hesitate and reflect . |
| 21 | President Jose Sulaiman said : ‘ We know a single drop of blood can transport the virus , and there are fights in which there is a lot of blood . ’ |
| 22 | Beliefs are inconsistent when they can not both be true , attitudes are inconsistent when there are circumstances in which they can not ( in the same sense of ‘ can not ’ ) both be fully actualised in feeling and action . |
| 23 | All that Montefiore 's example shows is that there are circumstances in which it is unfair to act neutrally , where there are not even prima facie reasons to be neutral . |
| 24 | However , where it is discovered that the tax law does not have the effect that the Government and taxpayers generally thought it had , there are circumstances in which it is right to introduce legislation to restore the position retrospectively to what it was thought to be . |
| 25 | I mean , she could have been er in love with Rochester but it looks to me like a beginning of an idea , you know , that er there are circumstances in which she er |
| 26 | Always use the F statistics unless there are circumstances in which you ca n't , right if the computer does n't generate an F statistic , then you will just have to use the L M version . |
| 27 | There are things on which we should be spending money , which is why we have increased the standard spending assessments in recent years , but in this case |
| 28 | Well I think of evaluation as the process by which a person or a group of people have a fairly careful look at something they 're doing in order to try and decide whether it 's going well or badly , whether there are things in it they might wish to improve , and how valuable they think it is whether they might want to make changes in it in any way . |
| 29 | We remember in particular from that section that there are conditions in which none of the steady state solutions is stable ; we left open the question of what happens then . |
| 30 | There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race . |