Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Even in the daytime , the majority of you feel worried if you walk through a subway or are in a multi-storey car park .
2 This is so even if the alternative job offered involves a change in your terms of contract or is with an associated employer , such as another company which is controlled , in terms of shareholders ' voting power , by the same person or people who control the company that you work for .
3 Section 12(3) applies to a contract where it appears from the contract or is to be inferred from the circumstances that the parties intended that the seller should transfer only a limited title ( whether it be the limited title of the seller himself or of some third person from whom the seller would obtain it ) .
4 It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking .
5 A period as a hospital inpatient is an opportunity for patients to break the habit , particularly those who have disease related to smoking or are at high risk , such as those with diabetes .
6 Children may learn to pass urine and faeces in it but accidents will still happen when they are preoccupied in play or are in a place where they do not know where the lavatory is .
7 Maybe they are divorcees or are from different faiths .
8 If you are an ex-Manorian but have not yet joined the Association or been to a reunion , send for details to The General Secretary , Manor House Association , Manor House , Northfield , Birmingham B31 2AE .
9 Gardeners and allotment holders may not keep animals or be near a convenient source of sewage sludge or other animal waste .
10 A SMALL point on your book review of Durham : Birth of a First-Class County : had Ralph Dellor consulted the club or been at the match , he would have noted that it was Paul Parker who took the first ball from Oxford University pace bowler Michael Jeh , and not John Glendenen .
11 Instead , they are either covered with a corrugated iron roof or are in the street .
12 He has never had a girlfriend or been to a disco or a dance . ’
13 ‘ Like , you 're the kind of person I 'd like to talk to if I just had a fight with my girlfriend or was in trouble with the law or something . ’
14 It is important that fieldwork should be properly supervised and that is why all professional research agencies get their field supervisors to make check calls on people who have been included in a sample and why fieldworkers should always have someone to turn to if they have any doubts or are in any difficulties .
15 Ideally , you should adjust your eating so that you are meeting your aims for goal weights or are at least 2 to 3 lb ( 1 kg ) within your goal weight for any particular week .
16 Some of the men they knew had gone home to Ireland to escape being called up for the forces , but many more were serving in the Army , Navy or Air Force or were at sea with the Merchant Marine .
17 It seems to have been a religion that was in transition , which may explain some startling contradictions or apparent contradictions .
18 This was concealed up to now by a few intuitive master strokes , the lucky results of risks that were in themselves unjustified , and the short-comings of our enemies .
19 Similarly it can be argued that if home helps or social workers request training from the CAB in aspects of new legislation , this can cement a positive relationship between the CAB and the local authority who will then see a service in action that is worth funding .
20 A B Kay is entirely correct when advocating that the medical establishment is obligated to take action that is in the best interest of the general public .
21 In terms of penalty-area action that was about it .
22 It would also need to try to provide wider privileges than are at present open to Members of the University Convocation .
23 For the conditions described in this book it is the selection of the remedy that is of far greater importance than the specific potency used .
24 But best of all , ‘ Up ’ is full of songs that are about the daftness and power of love , bizarrely enough .
25 Intersection regions between boxes are flagged to allow the designer to indicate the type of association that is to be expected ; these will occur between mounted or shaped components , assembled mechanism , etc .
26 If an experiment produces animals that are to be kept for a long period , or that are to form the basis of a breeding colony .
27 But the animals that are to be seen in our time can be interpreted as the end-products of an arms race that was run in the past .
28 Alternatively it is possible to check females and mate up only those animals that are in oestrus .
29 Mozart 's letters from Frankfurt are full of references to a mysterious deal that was to be the solution to all their problems .
30 Once the glass is fitted it will magnify any hairs that are on the backing material , and therefore ruin the picture .
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