Example sentences of "[conj] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need whatsoever to spend large amounts of money on flower pressing equipment , since the majority of items are either very inexpensive or are things you may already have around the house . |
| 2 | ‘ as to whether the applicants appointed pursuant to a facility letter dated 15 May 1990 and a debenture dated 28 April 1989 made between the respondent and the Swiss Bank Corporation are administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) of the Act of 1986 , or are receivers whose powers are limited to those conferred by the said debenture . |
| 3 | Some of those who commit sexual crimes claim that they are mentally ill or were victims themselves . |
| 4 | Or is Jones your maiden name ? |
| 5 | Biology and Chemistry are the most appropriate subjects , but these two sciences are not obligatory for entrance , nor are applicants who offer them given preference . |
| 6 | Nor are foods which are for immediate consumption . |
| 7 | Thus , young female offenders are more likely to be placed in protective and custodial institutions than are boys whose delinquent or criminal behaviour is similar . |
| 8 | Back-bench Members of Parliament whether of government or opposition parties are far more removed from questions of policy and administration than are councillors who discuss these matters through a series of committees and subcommittees . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it is fair to say that he was far more conscious of the reductionist tendencies in logical positivism than were others who passed through this particular school of thought . |
| 10 | Nor is Garcia his real name . |
| 11 | I mean , at the moment , instead of writing about the crap that is England I 'm writing about the crap that is America . |
| 12 | Much of the mercury that escapes in to the soil and the air and in to the water , finishes up here in the rivers , and there it reacts with naturally occurring compounds to form a compound called methyl mercury which is far more dangerous to man than is mercury itself . |
| 13 | Blake was not in fact English by birth nor was Blake his original name . ’ |
| 14 | The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp . |
| 15 | But upon the raven that was Mokosh he frowned , and bade her take herself underground . |
| 16 | Objectively , he was little more attractive to the Conservatives who were hostile to MacDonaldite mush than was MacDonald himself . |
| 17 | Do you that a child 's mind works in this way , as he or she looks at the world and finds meaning of in it , and are others who are influenced by their own experiences and by their conclusions of others . |
| 18 | The Idiot Boy and Simon Lee , the Old Huntsman are true Lyrical Ballads , and are poems which remain alive because they continue to provoke such intense disagreement . |
| 19 | It clears the blood and be God it 'll drive the colds out of you faster than any medicine you could care to name . |
| 20 | If they recovered and were friends she was delighted , and would flirt with them , and assume an easy physicality with them , and sleep with them again maybe , and break their hearts again if given half a chance . |
| 21 | This is a very old game and is simplicity itself . |
| 22 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |
| 23 | And be cause it makes use of the speed of light for complicated parallel interconnections , it can still handle the large volume of calculations — or weighting as it is called — involved in the learning process quickly . |
| 24 | and was Erigena ours ? |
| 25 | She reassured me , as I was very frightened , and was kindness itself . |
| 26 | As well as the FA Cup final he refereed a EUFA final , three European Cup semi-finals and was linesman his last game in the 1971 European final at Wembley . |
| 27 | In this chapter , I shall argue that Simmel 's assertion that his analysis is one of modernity rather than solely of capitalism should be taken seriously , and that the contradictions in modernity which he analysed are not resolvable through Marxist conceptions of a future society , but are dilemmas which have to be investigated as integral aspects of modern life . |
| 28 | But are cinema-goers anything like ancient Greeks ? |
| 29 | But were creatures nothing more than their physical overcoats , why should they not be docile vegetarians in one stage and voracious prey-catchers in another ? |
| 30 | But is Duart himself absent ? |