Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [be] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not the council 's job to decide , or Parliament 's for that matter . |
| 2 | Such overly anxious and insecure horses are usually found amongst the Thoroughbred population , where speed is of such importance that it predominates over every other desirable characteristic . |
| 3 | Published histories of every town or village or suburb are in many cases non-existent , so frequently primary pupils are by necessity plunged into the world of do-it-yourself local history . |
| 4 | His value was partly to bewilder those Americans who felt that to dilute hard liquor with tonic water or soda was in some way unmanly . |
| 5 | I 'm talking about the the overshoot , and my comments about greenfield sites were related to period eighty one to ninety two , and it became quite clear during the eighties that the sketch plan green belt or development was at that time , through the eighties , was by and large abutting onto the urban area , that er through the eighties what everybody understood to the sketch plan green belt was tight up against er the urban area , so in resisting urban greenfield sites erm on the urban edge through the eighties the County Council were recognizing the greenbelt constraints . |
| 6 | Regardless of how diverse the local population or economy is in each neighbourhood , the neighbourhood planner has not sought to ensure even representation and , indeed , in most cases representation did not reflect the local socio-economic profiles . |
| 7 | Jehan did not think that Sidacai was in any position to impose conditions , but he sat back in his chair , considering . |
| 8 | The fact that divorce is in many cases equally desired by both parties makes it probable that there may in fact be some collusion between them . |
| 9 | ‘ Patty alone of all the children felt that mamma was in that coffin , and that a new sadder life had begun for papa and herself . |
| 10 | Basil was a true advocate of the view that Art was for all people . |
| 11 | If one believes that education is for all children and must be regarded as in many ways the great equalizer , it is hard to accept the proposition that education in morality and religion should be left to parents whose fulfilment of this obligation will be far from equal . |
| 12 | This very selectivity of what the scientist chooses to notice and work upon is another reason for saying that science is to some extent subjective . |
| 13 | His personality and judgement were of most significance in the fields of foreign and military affairs . |
| 14 | Accusations of republican and Communist domination of NICRA and attempts to link the civil rights movement to subversion and violence were to some extent understandable responses by Unionists to the events in Derry . |
| 15 | Leapor 's poem has its origin in conversation so that literary creativity and friendship are in this case , as in many of her poems , inseparable . |
| 16 | The judicial institutions of Europe were governed by a series of contradictions , Jurisdiction and administration were regarded as essentially one process , and the court in which they were carried out was the central institution of any monarchy or principality : the maintenance of justice and law was in many people 's eyes the king 's supreme function . |
| 17 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 18 | S is also for SUBSTITUTE , which sugar and saccharine are of each other . |
| 19 | Information sharing , access , and security are in many ways the same issue viewed from different angles , with the emphasis varying according to how open an organisation is . |
| 20 | The stencilled letters and numerals in Braque 's Portugais are the prelude to the introduction of collage into Cubist painting , and collage was in many ways the logical outcome of the Cubist aesthetic . |
| 21 | So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice . |
| 22 | An important part of parliament 's business concerned affairs of state : decisions about royal marriages , war and trade were of this kind . |
| 23 | The ‘ Hitler myth ’ and terror were in this sense two indispensable sides of the same coin , ensuring political control and mobilization behind the regime . |
| 24 | Age and gender are among those variables of declining significance . |
| 25 | We spend a great deal of time arguing and going against these very simple instructions , but through practice we will find how much care and love is behind these messages . |
| 26 | And , IBM was happy to have the world believe , IBMers were an inherently superior breed , that its recruitment and training were of such excellence that man for man , any IBMer would be effortlessly superior to his counterpart in any competing company . |
| 27 | If the genes affecting survival and fertility are to some extent age-specific in their effects , then those that influence later life will be subject to weaker selection because , by the time they take effect , more of the original carriers will already have died or become infertile for other reasons . |
| 28 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
| 29 | Criticism and cajolery are of little help in changing the basic trends of an individual 's psyche . |
| 30 | Even though the link between investment and growth is in some ways tenuous , it is interesting that the increased level of fixed investment in the UK in the 1980s has been accompanied by a much stronger growth performance . |