Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [pron] [prep] the " 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 | 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 … |
| 3 | 'Cause there 's nothing like the feeling when that Tower comes into view |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The unstated implication is that there is something about the aptitude of the potential recruits themselves which leads to their failure . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As to what counsel said there is a keen dispute which their Lordships can not resolve , beyond observing that there is nothing in the abbreviated note of the arguments in the district court to suggest that counsel went further than to point out that the immediate future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was highly speculative . |
| 22 | For much the same reasons we are quite satisfied that there is nothing in the Act which affects in any way the processes by which decisions as to suspension and disbarment , and so on are to be taken and promulgated through the machinery created by the Inns in 1986 with the concurrence of the judges , subject always to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 23 | I do not think that there is anyone in the Chamber who would deny that the area of Cardiff docks needs redevelopment ; the question is whether there should be redevelopment by means of impounding the Rivers Taff and Ely . |
| 24 | The most primitive physicalist response to this argument is to deny the claim that there is anything about the mind that BS does not know . |
| 25 | To take this road is to resort to what I earlier described as the ‘ most primitive physicalist response ’ to the problem , which involves denying that there is anything about the nature of experience that BS does not know . |
| 26 | The confusion in Charlie 's mind is well conveyed , provided that there is none in the mind of the reader . |
| 27 | I had better remember that there 's nothing in the least bit sinister about mists and fogs . |
| 28 | Cos we took it that there was somebody probably take it that there 's somebody inside the flat . |
| 29 | I always warn my men that there 's something of the scapegoat involved in the role of parish priest . |
| 30 | It 's really made my day , to discover that there 's someone in the world who still does n't know who the seven major shareholders in GEC , Westinghouse , Con Edison , NBC , and CBS are ! ’ |