Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 …
2 He could hang everything is sight including what his favourite paper hangs regularly : The Truth .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 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 ?
7 I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit .
8 There are limits to what I 'd dare and
9 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 .
10 Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 There are areas in which we can act as a sounding board in general business issues and where the accountant ca n't ’ said .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 . ’
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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
22 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 .
23 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
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 There are angles from which it is important to emphasise similarities , and others from which — for equally strong moral reasons — it is important to emphasise differences .
27 There are situations for which we humans are responsible , either by neglect or corporate selfishness .
28 Also , there are situations in which it could well save the day .
29 And while there are situations in which it is possible for the male to simulate orgasm , fellatio is not one of them .
30 It seems like you got there 's a logic , there are arguments behind what you 're doing , and you 're equalising things certainly , but I suppose what comes to mind is this phrase to rob Peter to pay Paul , and it must be very difficult to explain to the people in the old folks home when it 's being closed , I 'm sorry , you 're doing this so that somebody else in a different part of the country will have a better quality of life .
  Next page