Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far no case has reached the reports where there has been difficulty because of the death , retirement or other incapacity of an expert after appointment . |
| 2 | Pascoe said : ‘ I do understand that it would also have been blackmail but in the circumstances I was n't adopting a very high moral position . |
| 3 | Motorhead are shite except for ‘ The Ace Of Spades ’ . |
| 4 | And there are signs that on one river the otter is already moving back into its old haunts . |
| 5 | They are merchants and in their life before the oil they were very well known merchants and they had tribesmen in that area . |
| 6 | There was the binding of wounds and examining of bruises to be considered , and the saying of prayers and sewing-up in bedding of those whose lives had been forfeit and above all there was a great deal of talking to be one , for , as the Magistrate scientifically observed , nothing unusual can happen among human beings without generating an immense , compensating volume of chatter . |
| 7 | XPG now has 532 branded components — languages , tools , libraries and the like — and there are Base and Plus branding levels for conforment systems . |
| 8 | Mr Larkin said : ‘ We have learned that even among criminals there are rules and in this case , by killing Jean , they have broken them . |
| 9 | There have been doubts as to whether crystal settling can explain layering . |
| 10 | Unemployment is soaring in all Community countries , especially Germany , and there are worries that without urgent action Europe will plunge into recession . |
| 11 | The following are guidelines as to where direct selling is most appropriate . |
| 12 | Libraries too are traders and like all traders , need to be responsive to demand . |
| 13 | George said : ‘ The majority of staff are non-smokers and of those who do smoke , it is likely that most will have little difficulty in adjusting to the smoking ban . |
| 14 | The trouble with this formulation is that it does not suggest how we can be sure as to just what is the constitutional set-up , and this is a particular problem once we recognise that the power of particular institutions is subject to change and that there are disputes as to what are ( and should be ) the fundamental practices and rules . |
| 15 | There are risks because of the operation and also the size of the child and the time we have to do it , so soon after birth . |
| 16 | The City 's top gurus reckon that the new package will certainly set shares alight when the stock market opens this morning but there are doubts as to whether it will continue to keep share prices riding high . |
| 17 | Translating language meanings and obtaining the desired effect , i.e. a wording immediately intelligible to listeners , is impossible , not because there are doubts as to the intended meaning of words or phrases but because the resulting translation of such words and phrases would fail to carry sense adequately in the other language . |
| 18 | But you see the point , so in our species and of course in most societies this is true men are breadwinners whether in an agricultural society or an industrial society erm you know one often feels that if you 're the man in the family you earn all the money your wife spends it on most of the time erm it certainly happens to me er |
| 19 | Of course , to keep the programming simple , a factor which many will see as a major advantage , there are limitations as to exactly how much any one effect can be adjusted . |
| 20 | Now , okay , when you 're infants and with things like that you just say ca n't do it |
| 21 | As in a great Jesse window , the ancestry of the pope could be portrayed descending from the apostle to whom Christ had said " Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church " . |
| 22 | Christ had entrusted the government of His Church to St Peter and his successors in the words , " Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church " ( Matthew 16 : 18 ) and " I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth , it shall be bound also in heaven " ( Matthew 16 : 19 ) . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ When you 're champions and in Europe , the sky 's the limit . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's not to say when you 're gardening or on holiday that the wheels stop turning and you do n't have any ideas . ’ |
| 25 | They are immigrants and in a town full of bigots they keep themselves to themselves . |
| 26 | There are reservations as to its validity because of the small samples and the non-parametric nature of some of the variables . |
| 27 | There are three skin covered arm spines , proximal spines are rugose but towards the end of the arm , all the spines become more hook-like . |
| 28 | Perhaps those are things that in the best of all possible worlds we would n't want to but we are forced so to do . |
| 29 | An individual , apart from society , can not be conceived as having rights — or if he does , they are rights as against God , which is blasphemy . |
| 30 | Of the eighty endemic species , eighteen are pigeons and of these eleven are found nowhere else in the world . |