Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These institutions are among some 200 ‘ unverified and lost ’ , and so excluded from the 11th edition of the Directory of British Associations , just out . |
| 2 | Because such religions are of more interest to the media than are more ‘ ordinary ’ religions , it is quite likely that whenever the tragedy occurs we shall be treated to the headline Cult Member Commits Suicide . |
| 3 | ( It should be noted in passing that the Sex Discrimination and Race Relations Acts are of little relevance here . |
| 4 | The following hardy green manures are among those most suitable for autumn sowing . |
| 5 | No counsel appearing on this appeal has attempted to defend those findings of fact or suggest that the reasons are in any way adequate . |
| 6 | These tendencies are at most tangentially in line with changes in concentration , suggesting a need to look elsewhere for causal factors . |
| 7 | Balance sheets are usually produced for each account , but the operating accounts are in much more detail : the General Fund will be segregated into , for example , education , public health , roads . |
| 8 | ‘ Audited accounts are in any event only one of the sources of information which a prudent banker takes into account . |
| 9 | The facts of this case are of such gravity that a sentence of general deterrent is necessary , ’ said the judge . |
| 10 | Indeed some propositions falling into the second category are of such little weight as to amount to virtually no authority at all , while others are so significant as to be more important than those apparently of binding authority . |
| 11 | Now we know why Labour policies are in such a mess . |
| 12 | When , in Britain , it is suggested that the policies of the Conservative Government towards local authorities since 1979 raise constitutional questions , what is meant is not that these policies are in any sense illegal , but rather … that they breach hitherto accepted understandings , albeit tacit , as to how relationships between central government and local authorities should be ordered . |
| 13 | A character with Metallurgy will know of the adulteration , one with Numismatics will know the coins are worth less than face value . |
| 14 | Cobra effigies and icons are in most part multicephalous , that is possessing three , five , seven or sometimes nine heads , always an odd number . |
| 15 | Brockbank said : ‘ It has been like that since day one , but many clubs are like that . ’ |
| 16 | The geographical nature of the North-East dictates that the vast majority of North-East based national football reporters gravitate to Newcastle and Sunderland on a daily basis because the clubs are in such close proximity . |
| 17 | The toilets are on that way . |
| 18 | Organic vegetables are of little use if their leaves are yellowing , their vitamins and minerals long departed . |
| 19 | The first version suggests that women can gain authority by using men 's linguistic strategies , while the second is more sceptical about this ; linguistic strategies are after all chosen within particular social contexts and relations . |
| 20 | But while some of these cases are of this simple kind , others are more directly involved with modern market conditions , whether as a form of investment or as a form of prestige advertising . |
| 21 | His ‘ invention ’ , like that of hobbits , has been well-chronicled by Humphrey Carpenter ( Biography , pp. 64 and 172 ) ; the two cases are in several ways similar . |
| 22 | An abstract reaction mechanism , where the chemical reactions are at most second order and give a detailed mass balance when the system is closed , can be reduced to the system [ 40 ] : ( 2.5 ) unc The unc are concentrations of reactants that are held constant , giving an open system , and the hi are rate constants : thus the a and the hi are positive . |
| 23 | Nor is it quite certain that the ordinary law Courts are in all cases the best body for adjudicating upon the offences or the errors of civil servants . |
| 24 | Nizan 's literary and political activities are in many ways best understood as a contribution to what he would doubtless have designated as a " cultural revolution " . |
| 25 | THE Prime Minister , Jeffrey Archer , Sylvester Stallone and Rod Stewart are among those lined up to appear on the Wogan chat show as part of BBC TV 's £82 million line-up of programmes for the new year . |
| 26 | We should n't kid ourselves for in factories and workplaces around the country G M B and T & G are at each other 's throats . |
| 27 | The results from the simple syntactic processor are of little use to the semantic analysis , being simply a rating of the ‘ goodness ’ of fit of a word given its local syntactic environment . |
| 28 | Its last hours are like those of Camembert ; it becomes a liquid smelly mess and runs out of the joint , leaving only a dirty mark behind . |
| 29 | Perhaps the comics are in this category too , not merely ‘ rubbish ’ but collections of rampantly-bad jokes and celebrations of poor taste . |
| 30 | They find that unhappy childhoods are behind many difficulties in later life . |