Example sentences of "be [det] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Nor is it much use to put them in a pocket , for the rigours of the downward journey are such that they arrive at ground level in the form of an omelette .
2 In other words the limits on the knowing subject 's cognition are such that it has to be mediated in a social and discursive context for anything like truth to be achieved :
3 A proper focus and clarity of purpose , abroad as at home , are all that anyone asks of the man from Arkansas .
4 In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market .
5 Their replies to my questions may not be those that I had in mind , but by telling them that they were incorrect I would probably have ensured that they would not be so willing to answer again .
6 That the fathers took this view of the Divine Drama is not obvious , the reason being that if we look at the development of theology from the first Great Council of Nicaea ( AD 325 ) to the Council of Chalcedon ( AD 451 ) it is dominated by the disputes concerning the nature of the Holy Trinity and Christological issues .
7 And when he wrote ‘ Tho ’ my errors and wrecks lie about me' , I believe that cantos like 107 and 108 were those that he had in mind ; and that he was right to judge them thus harshly .
8 Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers .
9 Erm the advantage that schools has er have sorry , over the other products , is that if you went to a medical practice you may have four or five doctors to help you out .
10 I think what is interesting , though , is that if you look at the two amendments which are on the audit paper , one deals with speculation er proposed by the Tories .
11 The reason that I said please always open by the triggers , is that if you open by pulling the rings apart , the rings will eventually distort , your papers will fall out , you 'll send it back to me , claiming that the binder was defective .
12 Is that where it came from ? ’
13 It is this that we examine in the next section .
14 It is this that I had in mind in proposing at the outset my three notions and calling one of them , the last , language as replay .
15 Is this because they built onto the
16 ‘ The political situation in FIFA , at the moment , is such that we have to be very careful of not seeing the majority move towards that idea . ’
17 However , we should n't grumble , because that is all that we get with many other plants , and at least the reason of interest and attraction is extended by colourful fruits ( hips ) in autumn .
18 We make-believe that the dried skull is all that we have from a modern animal , use a plaster cast to estimate how big its brain was from the skull alone , and then check with the real brain to see how accurate our estimate was .
19 Now an enzyme is more than what comes with a pack of washing powder .
20 It is more than I bargain for to recall the names of my own … family . ’
21 As with the male , there is some hormonal decline from the menopause onward ; again , this is less if she keeps in practice , although some vaginal dryness may make the use of an artificial lubricant desirable .
22 It 's more than I saw of him .
23 It 's less than we pay in Wolverhampton .
24 It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama .
25 Thome de Gamond realised the importance of preliminary geological investigations and this enthusiasm was such that he dived without any form of equipment to depths of 100 feet to survey the Channel bed .
26 His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) .
27 Such an image had little real relevance to the situation he was ostensibly addressing , although its private significance was such that it reappeared in his later creative work .
28 And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring .
29 That was all that he had in mind , as Prior Robert , bewildered and displeased by what seemed to him very grudging acceptance of a duty that should have conveyed honour upon the recipient , waved Jerome imperiously to the altar .
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