Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a supplier decides to increase his market share by attracting higher usage by occasional users , he must first attempt to find out whether they buy competitors ' goods or not , or where there is something about the present marketing mix which dissuades them from buying more frequently . |
| 2 | I prefer plateaux and broad bars in pits and generally areas of sparser weed growth , deeper water or the mouths of reedy , shallow bays where there is something of a drop off . |
| 3 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |
| 4 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 5 | Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her . |
| 6 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 7 | ‘ I knew as soon as I saw you that you were nothing but a piece of filth ! |
| 8 | 'Cause there 's nothing like the feeling when that Tower comes into view |
| 9 | Although there is nothing in the measurements to suggest it , the sound comes to my ear as on the warm side of strick neutrality — perhaps rich would be a better description . |
| 10 | Although there is nothing in the early Merovingian period to compare with the concern shown by the eighth-century Anglo-Saxons as to what constituted the prohibited degrees of marriage , there was considerable worry about uncanonical sexual relations . |
| 11 | The idea that there is something of a lag between terminology and social system is interesting and there does indeed sometimes seem to be this type of gap . |
| 12 | I realise that there is something of a contradiction here , but so be it . |
| 13 | Yet the difficulties which some governments have experienced in recent years in delivering political promises that the size of the bureaucracy would be reduced suggest that there is something to the foundation upon which economic models of bureaucracy have been built . |
| 14 | The activities of the societies also ensure that there is something for every branch of the membership . |
| 15 | So we started by asking our friends , who in turn asked others , until we were eventually inundated with testimonies from witnesses around the world who provided popular proof that there is something about the cinema that encourages , right there in the picture house , thoughts , feelings and behaviour in its patrons by turns enigmatic , terrifying , erotic , sad , hilarious and poetic , often triggered by uncanny interplay between screen image and real-time events in the auditorium and in the world beyond the muffled doors . |
| 16 | Positively , the theory asserts that there is something about the sensation which correlates with the stimulation being at a certain point , and which can thus , in time , become a sign to us of the stimulation being at that point . |
| 17 | The constant visibility of cult members committing suicide is likely to lead us to think that there is something about the cult that causes people to take their own lives . |
| 18 | One is that something about the dream itself ( its illogicality perhaps ) makes it difficult to remember , and the other that there is something about the physiological state in which we find ourselves when first woken up that makes remembering difficult . |
| 19 | It seems likely that there is something about the state we are in while asleep that prevents memories from being stored in the normal way . |
| 20 | The unstated implication is that there is something about the aptitude of the potential recruits themselves which leads to their failure . |
| 21 | ‘ I know now that there is something between a mother and her baby that even time can not take away . |
| 22 | One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question . |
| 23 | I suspect what the conclusion wants to imply is that there is something in the philosophy of science which says that science should be used for good things and that war is not one of these . |
| 24 | And our concern is that if that figure is appro is is agreed or recommended by the panel or it 's gon na to be taken by the county that there is something in the order of a hundred and thirty hectares of employment land which is going to take investment from somewhere . |
| 25 | Another way is to catch a bus from Bishop 's Castle to Newtown or Shrewsbury ( for the sake of the argument , suppose that there is one at a suitable time ) . |
| 26 | They make a mockery of the notion that there exists within the Community a free market or even that there is one in the offing . |
| 27 | The term substantial steps is used because prior to that stage it is generally assumed that there is nothing for the offeror to disclose publicly . |
| 28 | It says , the quiz will contain some sixty questions covering general knowledge and not just railway so so that there is , not very good grammar , so that there is nothing for the family to be afraid of . |
| 29 | Indeed , we would assert most emphatically that there is nothing within the stories themselves to explain any change in the divine response , let alone a change as complete and as dramatic as the two series report . |
| 30 | The use of square brackets would normally mean that there is nothing in the hand of the king , not even a signature , but that the material is contemporary with him and belongs to his period . |