Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he ensure that the vast amount of aid which has been sent into the region for military purposes will in future be for peaceful purposes so that the region 's social injustices are dealt with as rapidly as possible ? |
| 2 | Even in this country where advances be in minimal amounts of impurities that can go through simply not the population prepared to allow this to happen to us . |
| 3 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 4 | If a Christian wrong a Jew , what should his suffrance be by Christian example ? |
| 5 | ‘ In these cases the interests of justice may demand special requirements such as , for example , that the preparation and presentation of the case be in separate and independent hands ’ . |
| 6 | What should the division be between public and private spending on health care , and can publicly funded systems continue to offer a comprehensive range of services ? |
| 7 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 8 | This meal may of course be of gargantuan proportions and much snacking of high-energy foods may precede its consumption . |
| 9 | A different approach to data collection may be found in Kallen 's ( 1986 ) study of the co-occurrence of auxiliary do with main verb BE in Irish English : |
| 10 | And it ca n't by definition be about sexual liberation simply because it duplicates and exploits those same power relationships . ’ |
| 11 | In January 1967 , there was the famous Human Be-in at Golden Gate park in San Francisco , and Allen Ginsberg , now suitably converted to Buddhism blew on a conch shell and chanted Hindu sayings and recommended that every healthy American over the age of fourteen should try LSD once . |
| 12 | The gesture may have been made for the sake of appearances : after all , how could a minister be without Christian charity ? |
| 13 | ‘ how committed will the ATB be to part-time farmers in the light of budget restrictions ? ’ |