Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dementia and/or confusion was by far the most common condition requiring such a move ( 50% ) . |
| 2 | This shows that the Bristol & West is behind you , and says you 're a genuine , serious house-hunter , with real buying power — to be treated with the greatest respect ! |
| 3 | All of the other theories to be discussed here can only describe what has happened ; they have no real conception of what the motive force of power or change is in society over time other than to rely on describing the eclectic , indeterminate behaviour of subjective and free individuals . |
| 4 | A communal approach over a broader socio-economic field is required if a rural development strategy for a particular area , community or settlement is to be established . |
| 5 | In fact one of the simplest and best ways to extend any kind of seafood salad or cocktail is with fresh pineapple . |
| 6 | When transmitted , the letter must be accompanied by certain other documents , intended for delivery to the person on whom the process , summons or subpoena is to be served , and all must be translated into the official language of the state of destination . |
| 7 | Debenham & Freebody 's of Wigmore Street did so in 1920 , but not for tardy payment of a long outstanding account but for an order which the customer denied had ever been given . |
| 8 | Whoever slew a hart or hind was to be blinded . |
| 9 | Meanwhile I am exploring the edges of a continent where most of its people are clustered and , except in city and suburb , well scattered where settlement is at the mercy of geography , as indeed is the peroipatetic topographer , constantly on the lookout for some assembly of landscape elements that can be turned into pictures and — because of indoctrination by a European culture — pictures of a particular sort . |
| 10 | the wife 's perfume or hubby 's after shave , |
| 11 | But generally the arena for attack or defence was in England and Europe . |
| 12 | This rebellion had two main foci : the Viceroyalties of the Rio de la Plata and of New Granada , where resistance was to be symbolized by Bolívar , the greatest of the liberators of Latin America . |
| 13 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 14 | The value transferred is to be reduced by the value of any other interest in possession in the property to which the beneficiary becomes entitled at the same time or by the amount of any consideration in money or money 's worth which he has received in respect of the determination or disposal . |
| 15 | The rate of tax payable is arrived at by reference to the total of that value and the value of any previous chargeable transfers made by the beneficiary , but that value is to be reduced by the value of any other interest in possession in the property to which he becomes entitled at the same time or by the amount of any consideration in money or money 's worth which he has received in respect of the termination or disposal of the interest . |
| 16 | " Capital sum " for these purposes has the same meaning as in s677. ( b ) Associated payments In relation to any capital sum paid to the settlor by a body corporate the expression " associated payment " means : ( i ) any capital sum paid to that body by the trustees of the settlement ; and ( ii ) any other sum paid or asset transferred to that body by those trustees which is not paid or transferred for full consideration in money or money 's worth being a sum paid or asset transferred in the five years ending or beginning with the date on which the capital sum is paid to the settlor ( s678(3) ) . |
| 17 | It 's not the council 's job to decide , or Parliament 's for that matter . |
| 18 | Partial results from the 70 constituencies , where election was by proportional representation according to party lists , gave the DLP 35 seats with 42.6 per cent of the vote , Sajudis 18 seats with 21.6 per cent and the Christian Democrats , expected to ally with Sajudis , 10 seats with 11 per cent of the vote . |
| 19 | But you liked those erm were they countryman 's or ploughman 's in a packet and you just throw them into the pan and cook it for about fifteen minutes ? |
| 20 | whose nobility of soul never stoops to treachery even if his life or livelihood is at stake , |
| 21 | Such overly anxious and insecure horses are usually found amongst the Thoroughbred population , where speed is of such importance that it predominates over every other desirable characteristic . |
| 22 | Mines which were primarily of gold or silver were in a different category entirely , however . |
| 23 | A company director or shareholder is in a more constrained position : the Companies Act forbids loans from the company to directors and reductions in the company 's capital . |
| 24 | The bust , bosom or cleavage was for the Fifties the apotheosis of erogenous zones . |
| 25 | ( 1 ) ( a ) If on the pre-trial review the district judge has ordered that the hearing be adjourned generally and certificates of readiness ( with an estimate of length of hearing ) be lodged by all parties before the matter is set down , then it will not be regarded as practicable by the court to fix a date of hearing until the certificates or readiness are in fact provided . |
| 26 | Burks & Hare are on the road with the Addams Family and the cast of Macbeth — all the funeral of the fair ! — and you 're stuck with the Inspiral Carpets , The Real People and Family Gotown . |
| 27 | It was very important to know as near as possible the number of kibbles which could be mined weekly " upon which the projects of gaine or loss are to be framed . " |
| 28 | The position , as it seems to me , is that the legislation , by section [ 8(2) ] , contemplates two possible ways in which guilt or innocence are to be established . |
| 29 | When an illustration or photograph was to be used the appropriate area was opened up and the relevant item stuck in . |
| 30 | ( where living is at last to be living now |