Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't miss this great opportunity to look out for are swallowtail butterflies , hawker dragonflies and spectacular orchids on a natural history ramble around Blue Marshes National Nature Reserve in the Broads . |
| 2 | Some of the costs are met by head office — it gets all of the revenue because we sell in this country — but in the case of France where we have a separate legal entity , what we 're after is contribution statements by unit of accommodation for the UK revenues , and one or two other costs with those French locally incurred expenses . |
| 3 | The first was that they were legally members of the National Church by virtue of being Crown Subjects ; this was nonsense of course as the tolerance introduced after the ‘ Glorious Revolution ’ recognized Dissenters ' right to exist , even if it were a restricted right . |
| 4 | When all who direct , manage , control , teach , undertake research , plan and administer are ‘ bureaucrats ’ in the sense of being state functionaries , it is difficult to identify the class element in what is a large and heterogeneous stratum containing different and conflicting interests , such as those between the party and the scientific and technical intelligentsia , or the higher levels of state administration and the management of economic institutions . |
| 5 | Secret processes of manufacture provide obvious examples , but innumerable other pieces of information are capable of being business secrets , though the secrecy of some information may only be short lived . |
| 6 | Doctor editor Helena Sturridge said : ‘ GPs have had enough of being punch bags and are no longer willing to remain lumbered with patients who attack them . ’ |
| 7 | Tito had in fact already issued orders that persons suspected of being war criminals should be tried by military courts [ KPs 89 and 105 ] . |
| 8 | Twenty-four black militant organisations were subjected to ‘ tax surveillance ’ as part of International Revenue Service ( IRS ) harassment , and FBI agents placed bogus documents into the hands of Panther members which led them to suspect each other of being police informants ( McAdam and Moore , 1989:281 ) . |
| 9 | Surprisingly , despite being mountain villages , both have a wonderful array of elegant shops that will keep any browser amused for hours on end . |
| 10 | Ten million children with be AIDS orphans by the year 2000 . |
| 11 | The system set up by the National Insurance Act 1911 was continued under the subsequent amending legislation , but the benefits dealt with were insurance benefits and provided no help for the uninsured . |
| 12 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 13 | These mothers may seek maturity through maternity , but that 's not the same as domesticity — they are n't into being earth mothers , mega-chefs or craftswomen . |
| 14 | FED UP with being Beatles copyists , the Stones invented the riff that would sustain them forever , flipped the finger to the authorities that wanted them jailed , punched hippies in the throat and threw the blues into a seething vat of hydrochloric sex acid . |
| 15 | That 's the trouble with being car drivers is n't it ? |
| 16 | With being bush things you mean ? |
| 17 | Ill be sending my comments on the Sunderland Match later — but a revolutionary idea we came up with was velcro shirts … with stick on everything … |
| 18 | Losing one player does not take a team from being championship contenders to relegation candidates I 'm sure he is , but there is no bottomless pit of money , so certain players may end up being sold . |
| 19 | Far from being rest days , the festivals of the church were times of heightened activity , in an atmosphere redolent of older , grander , more disciplined ways . |
| 20 | So far these are very far from being boom times . |
| 21 | Among the various routes that were agreed upon were US routes via London to the Middle East and South Asia , and through Hong Kong . |
| 22 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 23 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |
| 24 | ‘ They wo n't do it — they all want to be air hostesses these days . ’ |
| 25 | They are still at large and Scotland Yard has not ruled out their possible involvement in the latest attacks , but they are believed to be firearms specialists rather than bomb makers . |
| 26 | Oh , are they supposed to be teddy bears ? |
| 27 | A major objective of the project is to explore how media education can benefit those training to be church ministers . |
| 28 | During the Labour landslide they used to be love letters . |
| 29 | And national guidance does contain some fairly specific indicators of what is expected to be structure plans . |
| 30 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |