Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb mod] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , in order that the trial should be of any value at all , both materials should be used in the way that will produce the best results . |
| 2 | I remember that my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian challenged the Prime Minister to comment on the increase , and he answered that the chairman must be worth that salary . |
| 3 | ( For a ‘ developed ’ country , this will probably concentrate on the questions asked in the census form ; for other parts of the world the method of conducting the census may be of more interest . ) |
| 4 | Where no form is prescribed for a transaction , or a prescribed form can not be conveniently adapted , r75 provides that the instrument shall be in such form as the registrar shall direct or allow but shall follow the approved forms as nearly as possible . |
| 5 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |
| 6 | The results of the research will be of more than purely academic interest , insofar as the rigorous identification and description of the structure of the arms trade would appear to be a necessary prerequisite for any discussion of multi-lateral restraints . |
| 7 | Where the rocks exposed in the cliffs are incoherent , pressures produced by the waves may be of less importance and much of the erosion accomplished by the load flung against the cliffs and by the simple swilling action of the waves , which removes the finer matrix from gravel beds . |
| 8 | The ribber must be on half pitch during knitting , but on full pitch while the stitches are transferred . |
| 9 | The committee said that because ministers occupied positions of power there were particular risks for them in any activity which overlaps the border between their public duties and private interests , however worthy the motives may be in any individual case . |
| 10 | One possibility is to ignore the part of the award of damages which exceeds the amount exempt from tax under the ‘ golden handshake ’ rules , for instance by expressing the exempt amount ( currently £30,000 ) as an annual income over the unexpired period of the contract , estimating what the tax would be on that imaginary income and deducting that tax from the total compensation . |
| 11 | City analysts have put a price tag of as much as £60m on Hargreaves and some potential bidders , including the Irish group CRH , have intimated that the business would be worth more to an existing player in the market than a newcomer . |
| 12 | The quotation will state that any contract entered into as a result of the quotation will be on these standard conditions of sale , to the entire exclusion of those of the buyer ( see the preliminary statement of Precedent 1 ) . |
| 13 | Right , if you 've got ta do three essays now from six you have to do one from each section , then you 're gon na do either two of developmental , o it 's unclear exactly what the breakdown will be on that .. |
| 14 | In registered motion paths , you click for each node , and so can accurately define where the actor will be in each frame relative to where it was in the last frame . |
| 15 | The stockpile will be worth some £400 million by 1985 , if spending targets are met . |
| 16 | I shall then draw on my own experience to explore which of these two approaches seems to offer the best way forward , and consider what the implications might be for any future evaluation . |
| 17 | On any given strand , the bases can be in any order , but there are rules governing the pairing between the bases on the one strand and those on the other ; adenine always pairs with thymine , and guanine with cytosine . |
| 18 | If there is no all-correct entry , the draw will be between those with the highest score . |
| 19 | If only because the offence is defined in terms of ‘ duty ’ the concept must be in some way limited to the ways that the law obliges the constable to act , in however attenuated or weak a sense of that word . |
| 20 | Hopefully all the details will be in this evening 's newspapers . ’ |
| 21 | An important role will be deciding what a fair rate of return for the academics should be in any given project . |
| 22 | ‘ The mechanism must be in this bed post , with a spring that runs here under the boarding and up into the other . ’ |
| 23 | It 's about pr p provision for migration and what the policy should be for that . |
| 24 | Heeding Lady Barber 's wish that the ‘ purchases for the Collection shall be of that standard of quality required by the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection ’ , the Trustees have succeeded in acquiring over the years a group of paintings , drawings , sculptures , and objet d'art of exceptional merit , a number of them undisputed masterpieces . |
| 25 | Now the analyst may be in some doubt how to interpret and he calls her , since the man might reasonably go into the house and call ( shout for ) his wife . |
| 26 | The new developments in information skills are still primarily research-led and because of the slowness of dissemination and take-up of work based on research it is not clear what the impact will be of this work on library practice . |
| 27 | That looks nice erm , all we have to do now is go and erm get a card and take the price , oh the prices must be on these |
| 28 | Both texts then seem to abandon the question of what Matroc 's competitors do and move on to consider the types of customer in the market place and whether the brochure would be of any value to them . |
| 29 | The music can be of any sort , of any age , and no matter how tattered or torn . |
| 30 | Always the call will be for more power to the organization , so that the 1989 cry of alarm from the Police Federation conference about private security firms is based more on a fear that areas of influence are being taken from the institution than on beliefs that such groups are incompetent . |